On 18th Sept. 2019 we were invited to introduce our research as part of an event organised by UK Stand Alone, and held at the Scottish Parliament. While the focus of the day was on students’ own experiences of estrangements, as represented

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 parents have different amounts of

Since January 2018, we have been exploring the experiences of ‘Estranged Students’ in Higher Education and this week we presented some of the preliminary findings of the project at the BERA conference (11th-13th Sept. 2018). We follow this with our conference at

  I was recently asked to present as part of a master class on Bourdieu and Higher Education research hosted by SRHE in London.  As per my remit, my role was to introduce and unpack some of the more niche and under-utilised

These has been so much recent chatter about automation and its precarious effects on the labour market that it’s easy to forget that such chatter has been with us for decades. The 1990s for example saw the publication of Jeremy Rifkin’s The

At this year’s Edinburgh Festival, I went to see Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy read from her The World’s Wife (1999) collection of poems. In the book, Duffy takes well-known stories which focus on men, twisting and re-presenting these anew. In doing