All Outputs (3)

The degree generation: The making of unequal graduate lives (2023)
Book
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)
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.

Jackie goes home, young working-class women: Higher Education, employment and social (re)alignment (2020)
Thesis
Bentley, L. Jackie goes home, young working-class women: Higher Education, employment and social (re)alignment. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/3292642

This thesis builds on and contributes to work in the field of sociology of education and employment. It provides an extension to a research agenda which has sought to examine how young people’s transitions from ‘undergraduate’ to ‘graduate’ are ‘clas... Read More about Jackie goes home, young working-class women: Higher Education, employment and social (re)alignment.