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Evaluating outreach activities: overcoming challenges through a realist ‘small steps’ approach (2016)
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© 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.

Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand (2016)
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The importance of education for social transformation is not exclusively something that is done in schools and universities. Taking education in its broadest formulation ? something that happens all of the time, in this article I posit the argument t... Read More about Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand.

Double gamers: Academics between fields (2016)
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© 2014 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The field of academia is frequently associated with traditional norms that aim to regulate scholarly activity, especially research. The social web, as another field, is often viewed as c... Read More about Double gamers: Academics between fields.

The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university (2016)
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The provocation and point of this paper is that universities of the North during the era of neoliberalism of have been sucked of their human life-giving capacities. What remains are closed doors and bare walls. Lest we give the impression of a hopele... Read More about The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university.

Book review: Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat (2016)
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Review of "Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat" ed. M. Reimer.

Individual and Social Influences on Students’ Attitudes to Debt: a Cross-National Path Analysis Using Data from England and New Zealand (2016)
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© 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.

'Don't ride on that crocodile!': Roald Dahl and the cautionary tale (2016)
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This article traces the genesis of selected examples of Dahl's fiction to the 19th century cautionary tale.

Neo-liberalism and the shifting discourse of ‘educational fairness’ (2015)
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The corporate university: An e-interview with Dave Hill, Alpesh Maisuria, Anthony Nocella, and Michael Parenti (2015)
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Since the neo-liberal turn, corporate investment in universities has accelerated as the withdrawal of government funding, among other factors, has further exposed universities to market forces. While this process offers numerous benefits for corporat... Read More about The corporate university: An e-interview with Dave Hill, Alpesh Maisuria, Anthony Nocella, and Michael Parenti.

Neoliberal and neoconservative immiseration capitalism in England: Policies and impacts on society and on education (2015)
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In this article we firstly set out the facts about the current stage of capitalism, the Immiseration stage of neoliberal capitalism in England. We note its relationship with conservatism and neo-conservatism. We identify increased societal inequaliti... Read More about Neoliberal and neoconservative immiseration capitalism in England: Policies and impacts on society and on education.

A case study of teaching assistants’ conditions of employment and workload: Reliance upon teaching assistants’ goodwill and ad hoc systems of preparation time. (2015)
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This paper will draw upon research with a group of work-based students studying for a Foundation Degree in Educational Support. Case studies of these work-based students highlight levels of goodwill evident within their day to day planning and prepar... Read More about A case study of teaching assistants’ conditions of employment and workload: Reliance upon teaching assistants’ goodwill and ad hoc systems of preparation time..

Practice, problems and power in ‘internationalisation at home’: critical reflections on recent research evidence (2015)
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© 2015, © 2015 Taylor & Francis. In a period when international flows of higher education students are rapidly increasing and diversifying, this paper reviews recent research evidence about the experiences of ‘home’ students – those who are not mob... Read More about Practice, problems and power in ‘internationalisation at home’: critical reflections on recent research evidence.

Higher education and the reproduction of social elites: The neo-liberal undergraduate subject and Faustian pacts for city careers (2015)
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Returning from earning: UK graduates returning to postgraduate study, with particular respect to STEM subjects, gender and ethnicity (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. It has been argued by some (e.g. the Confederation of British Industry [CBI]) that graduates lack the skills that render them employable. In particular, graduates of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) s... Read More about Returning from earning: UK graduates returning to postgraduate study, with particular respect to STEM subjects, gender and ethnicity.

Attitudes to debt among indebted undergraduates: A cross-national exploratory factor analysis (2015)
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© 2014 Elsevier B.V. This paper reports the results of a cross-national study spanning England, New Zealand and the United States. A total of 496 first year undergraduates studying business or social science completed a 20-item questionnaire. This fo... Read More about Attitudes to debt among indebted undergraduates: A cross-national exploratory factor analysis.

What’s happening in ‘their space’? Exploring the borders of formal and informal learning with undergraduate students of education in the age of mobile technologies (2015)
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The changing nature of teaching and learning in an age of accessible technologies provides challenges and opportunities for the design of learning events. Working with a sample of undergraduate students of education in one UK higher education institu... Read More about What’s happening in ‘their space’? Exploring the borders of formal and informal learning with undergraduate students of education in the age of mobile technologies.

Outcasts on the inside: academics reinventing themselves online (2015)
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© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Recent developments in digital scholarship point out that academic practices supported by technologies may not only be transformed through the obvious process of digitization, but also renovated through distributed knowledg... Read More about Outcasts on the inside: academics reinventing themselves online.

Don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it's gone? Skills-led qualifications, secondary school attainment and policy choices (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In the name of curriculum breadth and raising standards, recent government policy in England has removed a large number of non-academic qualifications from the list of those that secondary schools can count in league tables... Read More about Don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it's gone? Skills-led qualifications, secondary school attainment and policy choices.

Financial literacy and student attitudes to debt: A cross national study examining the influence of gender on personal finance concepts (2015)
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This study found a similar result in samples of university students from England and New Zealand to other countries, that males outperform females on financial literacy quizzes. While males outperformed females on a simple compou... Read More about Financial literacy and student attitudes to debt: A cross national study examining the influence of gender on personal finance concepts.

Towards a typology of debt attitudes among contemporary young UK undergraduates (2015)
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© 2013, © 2013 UCU. The findings of this study suggest that student attitudes are more complex than assumed in some previous research and journalistic commentary, especially with respect to social class. Counterintuitively, many students from lower s... Read More about Towards a typology of debt attitudes among contemporary young UK undergraduates.