Neil Harrison's Outputs (44)

Towards a typology of debt attitudes among contemporary young UK undergraduates (2015)
Journal Article

© 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.

Modelling the demand for higher education by local authority area in England using academic, economic and social data (2013)
Journal Article

Managing the demand for higher education has been a major concern of successive UK governments over the last 30 years. While initially they sought to increase demand, latterly the emphasis has been on widening participation to include demographic gro... Read More about Modelling the demand for higher education by local authority area in England using academic, economic and social data.

The mismeasure of participation: how choosing the ‘wrong’ statistic helped seal the fate of Aimhigher (2012)
Journal Article

Extant between 2004 and 2011, Aimhigher was the UK government’s flagship national initiative for widening participation to higher education for young people from disadvantaged social groups, with costs approaching £1 billion. Its demise was predicate... Read More about The mismeasure of participation: how choosing the ‘wrong’ statistic helped seal the fate of Aimhigher.

Expensive and failing? The role of student bursaries in widening participation and fair access in England (2012)
Journal Article

English universities currently spend £355m each year on bursaries to student groups who are under-represented in higher education. However, there is little evidence to suggest that this investment has had any meaningful impact on patterns of student... Read More about Expensive and failing? The role of student bursaries in widening participation and fair access in England.

Implementing and measuring widening participation in the post-2012 higher education world (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The impact of the pursuit of ASDAN’s Certificate of Personal Effectiveness (CoPE) on GCSE attainment (2012)
Report

Investigating the impact of personality and early life experiences on intercultural interaction in internationalised universities (2012)
Journal Article

Qualitative studies from a range of nations suggest that students studying in their own country exhibit a range of responses towards the international students with whom they share social and academic spaces, although the tendency is towards passive... Read More about Investigating the impact of personality and early life experiences on intercultural interaction in internationalised universities.

Overactive, overwrought or overdrawn? the role of personality in undergraduate financial knowledge, decision-making and debt (2011)
Journal Article

The financial situation of undergraduate students remains a high-profile issue within the UK higher education sector, not least due to its perceived relationship with retention, well-being and success. This article probes this question from a new dir... Read More about Overactive, overwrought or overdrawn? the role of personality in undergraduate financial knowledge, decision-making and debt.

Have the changes introduced by the 2004 Higher Education Act made higher education admissions in England wider and fairer? (2011)
Journal Article

'Widening participation' and 'fair access' have been contested policy areas in English higher education since at least the early 1990s. They were key facets of the 2003 White Paper - The Future of Higher Education - and the subsequent 2004 Higher Edu... Read More about Have the changes introduced by the 2004 Higher Education Act made higher education admissions in England wider and fairer?.

Participation rates in Aimhigher West: analysis and comparisons (2011)
Report

Two linked reports on widening participation in the Aimhigher West partnership area. These conclude, inter alia, that local factors such as school outcomes, labour market conditions and ethnic mix make a significant contribution to defining the high... Read More about Participation rates in Aimhigher West: analysis and comparisons.

Cultural distance, mindfulness and passive xenophobia: Using Integrated Threat Theory to explore home higher education students' perspectives on 'internationalisation at home' (2010)
Journal Article

This paper addresses the question of interaction between home and international students using qualitative data from 100 home students at two 'teaching intensive' universities in the southwest of England. Stephan and Stephan's Integrated Threat Theor... Read More about Cultural distance, mindfulness and passive xenophobia: Using Integrated Threat Theory to explore home higher education students' perspectives on 'internationalisation at home'.

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).

'Disadvantaged learners': Who are we targeting? Understanding the targeting of widening participation activity in the United Kingdom using geo-demographic data from southwest England (2010)
Journal Article

This paper analyses the definition of the appropriate target group for widening participation activities advanced by the Higher Education Funding Council for England in their. Targeting Disadvantaged Learners advice to Aimhigher and higher education... Read More about 'Disadvantaged learners': Who are we targeting? Understanding the targeting of widening participation activity in the United Kingdom using geo-demographic data from southwest England.

"It's so much easier to go with what's easy": "Mindfulness" and the discourse between home and international students in the United Kingdom (2009)
Journal Article

A recent aspect of U.K. higher education has been the internationalisation of university campuses, driven by a rapid increase in student numbers from overseas and growing pressure to prepare all students for global careers. It is often assumed by pol... Read More about "It's so much easier to go with what's easy": "Mindfulness" and the discourse between home and international students in the United Kingdom.

Discussing difference, discovering similarities: A toolkit of learning activities to improve cross-cultural exchange between students of different cultural backgrounds (2009)
Report

This document is the output from a project commissioned under the Prime Minister's Initiative on international student mobility and undertaken by ThinkingPeople, the University of the West of England and the University of Bath and published by UKCISA... Read More about Discussing difference, discovering similarities: A toolkit of learning activities to improve cross-cultural exchange between students of different cultural backgrounds.

Interactions in the international classroom – The UK student perspective (2009)
Book Chapter

"Targeting disadvantaged learners": Will we really narrow the social class gap in participation by targeting our most deprived communities first? (2009)
Journal Article

This paper examines the 2007 guidance for widening participation practitioners issued by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the ramifications of its targeting strategy in Southwest England. Drawing on data on higher educati... Read More about "Targeting disadvantaged learners": Will we really narrow the social class gap in participation by targeting our most deprived communities first?.

Knowing the ‘unknowns’: Investigating the students whose social class is not known at entry to higher education (2009)
Journal Article

This paper originates from the National Audit Office's 2008 report into widening participation policy in the United Kingdom. The report found that while there appeared to be modest improvements in the proportion of students coming from lower socio-ec... Read More about Knowing the ‘unknowns’: Investigating the students whose social class is not known at entry to higher education.

Enhancing tutor community - a research-based tutor consultation for the Workers’ Educational Association (2008)
Report

From opportunity to OFFA: The implementation of discretionary bursaries and their impact on student finance, academic success and institutional attachment (2007)
Journal Article

This paper presents a summary of findings from a five-year longitudinal study of a cohort of full-time students from low income backgrounds holding the national Excellence Challenge Opportunity Bursaries and similar institutional bursaries at a post-... Read More about From opportunity to OFFA: The implementation of discretionary bursaries and their impact on student finance, academic success and institutional attachment.