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Lifelong education research over 40 years: Insights from the International journal of lifelong education (2022)
Journal Article
Holford, J., Hodge, S., Knight, E., Milana, M., Waller, R., & Webb, S. (2022). Lifelong education research over 40 years: Insights from the International journal of lifelong education. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 41(6), 537-548. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2022.2167445

With this special issue of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, we complete a two-year celebration and critical examination of the field of adult lifelong education, prompted by the journal’s fortieth anniversary. In this editorial we pro... Read More about Lifelong education research over 40 years: Insights from the International journal of lifelong education.

Theorising adults, theorising learning (2022)
Journal Article
Hodge, S., Knight, L., Milana, M., Waller, R., & Webb, S. (2022). Theorising adults, theorising learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 41(4-5), 399-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2022.2116792

The irony of all theorising is its propensity to generate, not an understanding, but a not-yet-understood. (Oakshot, in Muller, 2015, p. 1) Adult learning theory is one of the central domains of lifelong education research. Anyone coming to the st... Read More about Theorising adults, theorising learning.

Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times (2022)
Book
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.

Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women (2022)
Journal Article
Bovill, H., McCartan, K., & Waller, R. (2022). Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women. Journal of International Women's Studies, 23(1),

Women’s safety from sexual violence whilst at university is a global issue and the UK is no exception. Whilst the authors of this paper acknowledge that sexual violence can occur across the gender spectrum, most sexual violence ‘victims’ are women an... Read More about Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women.