1st Edition
Researching Social Inequalities in Higher Education Access, Diversity and Inclusion
Chapter 1. Issues of access, diversity, and inclusion in contemporary higher education
Nadia Siddiqui and Vikki Boliver
PART I: Accessing Higher Education
Chapter 2: Do supported progression and bursary initiatives improve student outcomes?
Nadia Siddiqui
Chapter 3: Identifying contextually disadvantaged students in Chinese higher education
Yiyi Tan
Chapter 4: The links between higher education expansion, intakes, and funding in China
Jiayi Zhao
PART II: The Experiences of Traditionally Underrepresented Students and Graduates
Chapter 5: The experiences of working-class medical students in England and Portugal
Luany Promenzio
Chapter 6: Unpacking diversity in UK commuter students’ experiences
Emma Maslin
Chapter 7. The challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis to first-generation elite university students
Lewis Mates and Adrian Millican
Chapter 8. Socioeconomic inequalities of access to elite graduate labour market positions in China
Yujing Liu
PART III: The Academic Workforce
Chapter 9. Mapping the positionality of English for Academic Purposes practitioners in English universities
Sharon Riddle
Chapter 10: How organisational networks shape career trajectories of Pakistani female professors
Fouzia Sadaf
Chapter 11. Who inhabits the spaces of power in elite universities?
Tanya Fitzgerald and Sarah Jane Aiston
Access to Higher Education: Insights and challenges and what can we learn from projects led by PhD and early career researchers
Nadia Siddiqui and Vikki Boliver
Biography
Vikki Boliver is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Durham University, and has published widely on social inequalities impacting access to higher education. She is a leading expert on the use of contextual socioeconomic data to inform more equitable admissions decisions and has mentored dozens of doctoral and early career researchers.
Nadia Siddiqui is Professor in the School of Education, Durham University. Currently, she is researching disadvantage in education to inform policy and practice. She also supervises postgraduate students and doctoral researchers within the university.
