All Outputs (66)

Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals: recognising and playing the game (2013)
Journal Article

Strategies employed by middle-class families to ensure successful educational outcomes for their children have long been the focus of theoretical and empirical analysis in the United Kingdom and beyond. In austerity England, the issue of middle-class... Read More about Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals: recognising and playing the game.

Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning (2013)
Book Chapter

The Paired Peers project report (2013)
Report

Paired Peers is three-year qualitative longitudinal project following a cohort of students drawn from two universities in the same English city, the University of Bristol (UoB) and the University of the West of England (UWE), through three years of t... Read More about The Paired Peers project report.

The sociology of education (2011)
Book Chapter

Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning (2011)
Journal Article

This paper examines data from three projects to explore the 'hidden costs' of participating in lifelong learning. Whilst other potential risks (financial for instance) are anticipated, those around family and friendship ties are usually not. Adult re... Read More about Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning.

Widening participation Bristol-fashion: Embedding policy and practice at the Universities of Bristol and the West of England (2011)
Book Chapter

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The paper reviews, compares and contrasts the experiences of two neighbouring universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, in the introduction, pursuit and institutional embedding... Read More about Widening participation Bristol-fashion: Embedding policy and practice at the Universities of Bristol and the West of England.

Models of good practice in recruitment, initial assessment, induction and ongoing support for Learning & Skills Sector ITE trainees: Survey conducted on behalf of the SWitch Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training by the School of Education, University of the West of England, Bristol in collaboration with City of Bristol College (2010)
Report

Diversifying the South West Further Education and Training workforce: Survey conducted on behalf of the SWitch Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training by the School of Education, University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE) in collaboration with Western Training Provider Network (WTPN) (2010)
Report

We blame the parents! A response to 'cultural capital as an explanation of variation in participation in higher education' by John Noble and Peter Davies (British Journal of Sociology of Education 30, no. 5) (2010)
Journal Article

This paper offers a response to a recent article where the authors argue cultural capital is the only determinant of the propensity of young people to seek to enter higher education, dismissing other indicators such as social class. This response que... Read More about We blame the parents! A response to 'cultural capital as an explanation of variation in participation in higher education' by John Noble and Peter Davies (British Journal of Sociology of Education 30, no. 5).

Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Parents, partners and peers: The hidden costs of lifelong learning (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Changing identities through re-engagement with education narrative accounts from two women learners (2010)
Book Chapter

Changing identities through re-engagement with education: Two narrative accounts (2010)
Book Chapter

Evaluation of the Learning and Skills Council (West of England) work-related learning project (2010)
Report

This is the final report of the evaluation of the Work Related Learning Project. The project was funded by the Learning and Skills Council (West of England) and sought to contribute to raising the levels of 14-16 year olds’ participation, achievemen... Read More about Evaluation of the Learning and Skills Council (West of England) work-related learning project.

Changing class and gendered identities through re-engaging with education: Tensions revealed in narrative accounts from two studies of adult returners (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Vidas a través de la lente de un ojo de buitre: Interpretando cuentos de aprendices (Lives through the lens of a vulture’s eye: interpreting learners’ tales) (2009)
Book Chapter

Community engagement and specialist schools and academies: The implications of the Leitch Review of Skills Trust (2008)
Report

Evaluation report of the European Dictionary of Skills and Competencies (DISCO) Project (2008)
Report

Community engagement and specialist schools and academies: The implications of the Leitch Review of Skills. Final report on research conducted for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (2008)
Report

‘i don’t feel like ‘a student’, i feel like ‘me’!’: The over‐simplification of mature learners’ experience(s) (2006)
Journal Article

Many studies of mature students within further and higher education portray them as a distinct social category with particular shared characteristics. Such representations are sometimes sub‐divided further along lines of social division. For instance... Read More about ‘i don’t feel like ‘a student’, i feel like ‘me’!’: The over‐simplification of mature learners’ experience(s).