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Evaluating outreach activities: overcoming challenges through a realist ‘small steps’ approach (2016)
Journal Article
Harrison, N., & Waller, R. (2017). Evaluating outreach activities: overcoming challenges through a realist ‘small steps’ approach. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 21(2-3), 81-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2016.1256353

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Practitioners are being placed under increasing pressure to evaluate the success of their outreach activities, both by government and by their own universities. Based in a reductionist d... Read More about Evaluating outreach activities: overcoming challenges through a realist ‘small steps’ approach.

Access to higher education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges (2016)
Book
Mountford-Zimdars, A., & Harrison, N. (2016). Access to higher education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges. London: Routledge

How do we understand and explain who has access to higher education? How do we make sense of persisting and new forms of inequality? How can global, national and institutional policymakers and practitioners make higher education more inclusive? Acces... Read More about Access to higher education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges.

Individual and Social Influences on Students’ Attitudes to Debt: a Cross-National Path Analysis Using Data from England and New Zealand (2016)
Journal Article
Harrison, N., & Agnew, S. (2016). Individual and Social Influences on Students’ Attitudes to Debt: a Cross-National Path Analysis Using Data from England and New Zealand. Higher Education Quarterly, 70(4), 332-353. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12094

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This study examines the construction of debt attitudes among 439 first-year undergraduates in England and New Zealand. It works from a conceptual model that predicts that attitudes will be partly determined by a range... Read More about Individual and Social Influences on Students’ Attitudes to Debt: a Cross-National Path Analysis Using Data from England and New Zealand.