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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
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

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
Harrison, N., & Waller, R. (2010). 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). British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31(4), 471-482. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2010.484922

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).

Evaluation of the Learning and Skills Council (West of England) work-related learning project (2010)
Report
James, D., Bathmaker, A., & Waller, R. (2010). Evaluation of the Learning and Skills Council (West of England) work-related learning project

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.

‘i don’t feel like ‘a student’, i feel like ‘me’!’: The over‐simplification of mature learners’ experience(s) (2006)
Journal Article
Waller, R. (2006). ‘i don’t feel like ‘a student’, i feel like ‘me’!’: The over‐simplification of mature learners’ experience(s). Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 11(1), 115-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596740500508019

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).

Working-class women on an Access course: Risk, opportunity and (re)constructing identities (2004)
Journal Article
Brine, J., & Waller, R. (2004). Working-class women on an Access course: Risk, opportunity and (re)constructing identities. Gender and Education, 16(1), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/0954025032000170363

Framed by discourses of lifelong learning and widening participation, further education Access to University courses attract mature students from a range of social backgrounds. This paper focuses on eight women students who, to varying degrees, share... Read More about Working-class women on an Access course: Risk, opportunity and (re)constructing identities.

‘I really hated school, and couldn’t wait to get out!’: Reflections on ‘a wasted opportunity’ amongst access to HE students. (2004)
Journal Article
Waller, R. (2004). ‘I really hated school, and couldn’t wait to get out!’: Reflections on ‘a wasted opportunity’ amongst access to HE students. Journal of Access Policy and Practice, 2(1), 24-43

In constructing a narrative account of our lives, we may recall experiences of schooling with a mixture of resentment and regret, and perhaps a sense of ‘wasted opportunities’. This is particularly true if school has left us with a fragile academic s... Read More about ‘I really hated school, and couldn’t wait to get out!’: Reflections on ‘a wasted opportunity’ amongst access to HE students..

'I want to prove to myself that I can do this!': Risk and uncertainty in the construction of personal biographies for access students (2002)
Journal Article
Waller, R. (2002). 'I want to prove to myself that I can do this!': Risk and uncertainty in the construction of personal biographies for access students

This paper is a preliminary discussion of research findings from a PhD study that began within UWE’s Education Faculty in September 2001. It will seek to outline provisional thoughts as to how notions of risk and uncertainty are employed in the const... Read More about 'I want to prove to myself that I can do this!': Risk and uncertainty in the construction of personal biographies for access students.

“Everybody gets one or two chances in life, this is my second!”: Risk and the construction of (mature) students’ biographies (2002)
Journal Article
Waller, R. (2002). “Everybody gets one or two chances in life, this is my second!”: Risk and the construction of (mature) students’ biographies

This article presents preliminary findings from a PhD study that began in September 2001. It seeks to outline provisional thoughts as to how the notion of risk influences the construction of biographies for mature students on an Access course at a Fu... Read More about “Everybody gets one or two chances in life, this is my second!”: Risk and the construction of (mature) students’ biographies.

Men Behaving Badly or Attempting to Fit In? Laddism and its Impact on Learning and Teaching in HE
Conference Proceeding
Bovill, H., & Waller, R. Men Behaving Badly or Attempting to Fit In? Laddism and its Impact on Learning and Teaching in HE.

Anti-social, anti-intellectual 'laddish' behaviour and its impact on students and the teaching and learning environment has long been a topic of study in school settings (e.g. Connolly, 1997; Delamont, 2000; Francis, 1999), but until relatively rec... Read More about Men Behaving Badly or Attempting to Fit In? Laddism and its Impact on Learning and Teaching in HE.