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Student Carers in Higher Education: Navigating, Resisting, and Re-inventing Academic Cultures book cover

1st Edition

Student Carers in Higher Education Navigating, Resisting, and Re-inventing Academic Cultures

Edited By Genine Hook, Marie-Pierre Moreau, Rachel Brooks Copyright 2022
194 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This timely volume explores the ways that university institutions affect the experiences of student carers and how student carers negotiate the (often conflicting) demands of care and academic work. The book maps the experiences of student carers in academic cultures, exploring the intersectional ways in which gender, class, race and other social categories define who can take up a position... Read more

List of illustrations

Editors

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

  1. Introduction

    2.

    Genine Hook, Marie-Pierre Moreau, and Rachel Brooks

  2. Affective equality in higher education: Resisting the culture of carelessness

    3.

    Kathleen Lynch

  3. Negotiating embodied aspirations: Exploring the emotional labour of higher education persistence for female caregivers

    4.

    Sarah O’Shea

  4. Belonging, space and the marginalisation of university childcare

    5.

    Genine Hook

  5. Anything but ‘carelessness’: Employed student-mothers’ experiences of low status vocational higher education

    6.

    Paul Smith

  6. ‘A space for me, but what about my family?’: The experiences of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller student carers in UK higher education

    7.

    Christine Browne, Chelsea McDonagh, and Colin Clark

  7. Resisting colonisation: Indigenous student-parents’ experiences of higher education

    8.

    Rebecca D. Cox and Michelle Pidgeon

  8. How the ‘caring chain’ impacts the decision to study abroad, overseas experiences and career plan: A narrative analysis about a Chinese single mother

    9.

    Xuemeng Cao

  9. Doctoral carers: Tracing contradictory discourses and identifying possibilities for a more care-full doctoral education

    10.

    James Burford and Cat Mitchell

  10. Fragmented perceptions of institutional support for food-insecure student-parents

    11.

    Margaret W. Sallee, Christopher W. Kohler, Luke C. Haumesser, and Joshua C. Hine

  11. 'It’s not only me doing things for me’: Conference participation for doctoral students with caring responsibilities

    12.

    Emily F. Henderson

  12. Conclusion

Genine Hook, Marie-Pierre Moreau, and Rachel Brooks

Index

Biography

Genine Hook is Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New England, Australia.

Marie-Pierre Moreau is Professor of Education and Education Research Lead at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

Rachel Brooks is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK.

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