Estranged students in higher education: Policy thoughts in context
On 18th Sept. 2019 we were invited to introduce our research as part of an event organised by UK...
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Category: Inequalities
Whose involvement has capital? The application of Bourdieu’s thinking tools for the study of parental involvement.
All parents want the best education for their children (Vincent 2017), but not all parental actions are created equal (Lareau 2015). One of the explanations of this phenomenon provided in the literature has been the fact that...
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Accessing the experiences of ‘estranged’ students
Since January 2018, we have been exploring the experiences of ‘Estranged Students’ in Higher...
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Bourdieu and Reflexivity: opportunities through the habitus clivé?
I was recently asked to present as part of a master class on Bourdieu and Higher Education...
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Automation and the end of work … again
These has been so much recent chatter about automation and its precarious effects on the labour...
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Academia’s Wives
At this year’s Edinburgh Festival, I went to see Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy read from her The...
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The Aspirations and Decisions of Young People from the South Wales Valleys
[This is a blog post based on a forthcoming presentation at the British Education Research...
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Inequalities, soft practices and access to Scottish higher education
By Joan Forbes and Elspeth McCartney Inequalities of access to higher education: The role of...
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Engaging with student resistance in school
Review of: Eric Toshalis (2015) Make Me! Understanding and Engaging Student Resistance in School,...
Read MoreConceptualizing Habitus and Aspiration
I use habitus to examine the constitution of learner identities in neoliberal times with a focus on the nexus of working-class aspirations, symbolic violence and constituting value. In his investigation of the relationship...
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The role of the public sphere in the Jasmine Revolution: The struggle over women’s rights in Tunisia
Article: Mounira M. Charrad & Amina Zarrugh (2014) Equal or complementary? Women in the new...
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Olympians v the rest: Applying social theory to sport inequality
By Joan Forbes and Gaby Weiner Published ahead of the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, a survey...
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