Places are still available at the seminar below. Please forward to any colleagues or postgraduate researchers who you think may be interested in attending. Many thanks!
UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEMPORARY HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENT: ONE-DAY SEMINAR
Wednesday, 21st September 2016
University of Surrey, LTJ, Lecture Theatre Block
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
09.30-10.00 Coffee and registration
10.00-10.15 Welcome and overview of the ‘EuroStudents’ project
Rachel Brooks, University of Surrey
10.15-11.15 Keynote presentation: Student Experience in Context: higher education policy and the changing value of university education
Michael Tomlinson, University of Southampton
11.15-11.30 Break
11.30-13.00 Parallel sessions
Session A: LTJ
Spatial and social (im)mobilities through higher education
Michael Donnelly, University of Bath
Students in cities – the everyday mobilities of contemporary UK students
Mark Holton, Plymouth University and Kirsty Finn, Lancaster University
‘Talent-spotting’? Inequality, cultural sorting and constructions of the ideal employable graduate
Nicola Ingram, Lancaster University and Kim Allen, University of Leeds
Session B: LTF
Her majesty the student: marketised higher education and the narcissistic (dis)satisfactions of the student-consumer
Elizabeth Nixon, Richard Scullion and Robert Hearn, University of Nottingham
The student-as-consumer versus the student-as-learner: some preliminary findings from the UK
Stefanie Sonnenberg, University of Portsmouth
Understanding the student experience
Rachel Spacey and Mary Stuart, University of Lincoln
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Parallel sessions
Session C: LTJ
Unreasonable rage, disobedient dissent: the social construction of student activists through media and institutional discourses in the United Kingdom
Jessica Gagnon, University of Portsmouth
‘I am completely uninterested in politics’: ‘Filial nationalism’ and ‘rational patriotism’ as mainland Chinese students’ political orientations in Hong Kong
Cora Lingling Xu, University of Cambridge
Understanding the contemporary HE student: ‘It’s like a bubble. You just get sucked in’
Grace Sykes, Northampton University
Session D: LTF
How institutional doxa an shape choice within higher education
Jon Rainford, Staffordshire University
Contemporary students’ rights: a discursive strategy to overcome hysteresis in a post-92 HE setting
Karl Baker-Green and Cinnamon Bennett, Sheffield Hallam University
Paradoxes of the academisation process: a sociological exploration of the history of foreign and classical language education since 1864
Eric Lybeck, University of Exeter
15.30-15.45 Break
15.45-16.45 Keynote presentation: Biopolitics and the ‘making’ of the unexceptional student: some geographical reflections on education in East Asia
Johanna Waters, University of Oxford
16.45-17.00 Concluding comments
To attend the seminar, please register at: http://store.surrey.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=125&catid=266&prodid=2876 (There is a small charge of £30.)
Rachel Brooks
Professor of Sociology and Executive Editor, British Journal of Sociology of Education
Department of Sociology
University of Surrey
Guildford
GU2 7XH
T: 01483 686987
Twitter: @_rachel_brooks
New ‘EuroStudents’ research project: www.eurostudents.net
Latest article: Brooks, R., Byford, K. and Sela, K (2016) The spaces of UK students’ unions: extending the critical geographies of the university campus, Social and Cultural Geography, 17, 4, 471-490.
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