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

  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

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

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

[This is a blog post based on a forthcoming presentation at the British Education Research Association Conference, taking place in Leeds in September 2016] Young people’s future aspirations, expectations and

By Joan Forbes and Elspeth McCartney Inequalities of access to higher education: The role of policy and ‘powerful soft practices’ for more equal childhoods and university chances in Scotland    This