All Outputs (6)

The degree generation: The making of unequal graduate lives (2023)
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Ingram, N., Bathmaker, A., Abrahams, J., Bentley, L., Bradley, H., Hoare, T., …Waller, R. (2023). The degree generation: The making of unequal graduate lives. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press

What are the challenges for the current generation of graduate millennials? The role of universities and the changing nature of the graduate labour market are constantly in the news, but less is known about the experiences of those going through it.... Read More about The degree generation: The making of unequal graduate lives.

Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times (2022)
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Waller, R., Bradley, H., & Bentley, L. (2022). Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times. Bingley: Emerald

Selling Our Youth explores how the class origins of recent graduates continue to shape their labour market careers and thus reproduce class privilege and class disadvantage. It shows how class and gender combine to influence these young adults’ oppor... Read More about Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times.

The Learning Adult: Building and Reflecting on the Work of Peter Jarvis (2018)
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Holford, J., Milana, M., Waller, R., & Webb, S. (2018). The Learning Adult: Building and Reflecting on the Work of Peter Jarvis. Abingdon: Routledge

Peter Jarvis is a towering figure in adult and lifelong education and a leading and original theorist of learning. This book explores the breadth and significance of his work. Sixteen chapters by leading international scholars explain and engage crit... Read More about The Learning Adult: Building and Reflecting on the Work of Peter Jarvis.

The Palgrave international handbook of adult and lifelong education and learning (2018)
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Milana, M., Webb, S., Holford, J., Waller, R., & Jarvis, P. (2018). The Palgrave international handbook of adult and lifelong education and learning. London: Palgrave Macmillan

This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitica... Read More about The Palgrave international handbook of adult and lifelong education and learning.

Higher education and social inequalities: University admissions, experiences and outcomes (2018)
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Waller, R., Ingram, N., & Ward, M. R. M. (2018). Higher education and social inequalities: University admissions, experiences and outcomes. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

An edited collection of twelve original chapters of contemporary research into higher education and social inequality. The book is divided into three distinct sections exploring how social inequality manifests itself in three stages of the student li... Read More about Higher education and social inequalities: University admissions, experiences and outcomes.

Higher education, social class and social mobility: The degree generation (2016)
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Bathmaker, A., Ingram, N., Abrahams, J., Hoare, A., Waller, R., & Bradley, H. (2016). Higher education, social class and social mobility: The degree generation. (1). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53481-1

This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol’s... Read More about Higher education, social class and social mobility: The degree generation.