Dr Ciaran Burke's Outputs (18)

Theory of Change: Debates and Applications to Access and Participation in Higher Education (2022)
Book

Theory of Change speaks to those looking for an academically rigorous discussion of the origins and debates around this approach in Higher Education. Melding together robust academic research with examples of practice, the book provides specific appl... Read More about Theory of Change: Debates and Applications to Access and Participation in Higher Education.

Social Research and Disability: Developing Inclusive Research Spaces for Disabled Researchers (2020)
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Social Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including ambulance, sight, hearing and speech. In short, the... Read More about Social Research and Disability: Developing Inclusive Research Spaces for Disabled Researchers.

Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research (2020)
Book

Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education brings together an international group of scholars who shine a theoretical light on the politics of academic life and higher education. The book covers three key areas:

1) Institutional governance... Read More about Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research.

Stories of family in working‐class graduates’ early careers (2020)
Journal Article

How do young graduates view the role of immediate families in influencing/supporting them as they start their working lives and how do those reflections affect how they think of themselves as graduates? Social, political and economic changes have led... Read More about Stories of family in working‐class graduates’ early careers.

Addressing unrealistic optimism with counterfactual reasoning in an employability module in higher education (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: The study aimed to explore the effect of second year business students engaging in counterfactual reasoning on their unrealistic optimism regarding attainment on an employability module. Design/methodology/approach: Using an experimental des... Read More about Addressing unrealistic optimism with counterfactual reasoning in an employability module in higher education.

Maintaining the promise without killing the dream: Developing resilience for future 'graduate' careers (2020)
Journal Article

Significant numbers of recent graduates continue to enter non-graduate roles. Against this backdrop, there is a need to consider how students and graduates can be prepared for the graduate labour market. Resilience is represented as a key attribute f... Read More about Maintaining the promise without killing the dream: Developing resilience for future 'graduate' careers.

Navigating the graduate labour market: the impact of social class on student understandings of graduate careers and the graduate labour market (2019)
Journal Article

Significant expansions in higher education over the last few decades have raised concerns about an over-supply of graduates in the labour market, such that a degree no longer seamlessly translates into a graduate career or occupation, with the increa... Read More about Navigating the graduate labour market: the impact of social class on student understandings of graduate careers and the graduate labour market.

Decent work in the UK: Context, conceptualization, and assessment (2019)
Journal Article

Access to decent work is an important goal for policymakers and for individuals navigating their working lives. Decent work is a career goal for individuals and a priority for many employers and policy makers seeking to promote social justice. Decent... Read More about Decent work in the UK: Context, conceptualization, and assessment.

Understanding Graduate Careers: Research, Policy and Practice in Context (2018)
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Capturing habitus: Theory, method and reflexivity (2018)
Journal Article

Bourdieu’s career long endeavour was to devise both theoretical and methodological tools that could apprehend and explain the social world and its mechanisms of cultural (re)production and related forms of domination. Amongst the several key concepts... Read More about Capturing habitus: Theory, method and reflexivity.

International Perspectives on Theorizing Aspiration: Applying Bourdieu’s Tools (2018)
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Capitals and habitus: A Bourdieusian Framework for understanding transitions into higher education and student experiences (2017)
Book Chapter

Bourdieu: The Next Generation (2015)
Book

Habitus and graduate employment: A re/structured structure and the role of biographical research (2015)
Book Chapter

Culture, Capitals and Graduate Futures: Degrees of Class (2015)
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In a time of too many graduates for too few jobs, and in a context where applicants have similar levels of educational capital, what other factors influence graduate career trajectories? Based on the life history interviews of graduates and framed th... Read More about Culture, Capitals and Graduate Futures: Degrees of Class.

Biographical narrative interview method: Tracing graduates’ futures (2014)
Book Chapter

Well-founded social fictions: A defence of the concepts of institutional and familial habitus (2012)
Journal Article

This article engages with Atkinson’s recent criticisms of concepts of collective habitus, such as ‘institutional’ and ‘familial’ habitus, in order to defend their conceptual utility and theoretical coherence. In so doing we promote a flexible underst... Read More about Well-founded social fictions: A defence of the concepts of institutional and familial habitus.

The biographical illumination: A bourdieusian analysis of the role of theory in educational research (2011)
Journal Article

The intention of this paper is to serve as a reflexive comment as to my ongoing empirical processes and epistemological position concerning research on university graduates' aspirations and expectations of graduate employment. This paper will illustr... Read More about The biographical illumination: A bourdieusian analysis of the role of theory in educational research.