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Original Articles

The past, present and future of widening participation research

Pages 333-347 | Published online: 25 Apr 2007

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Lauren Stentiford & George Koutsouris. (2022) Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education. British Journal of Sociology of Education 43:8, pages 1250-1272.
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Khalid Arar, Ruth Abramovitz, Hanna Bar-Yishay & Neta Notzer. (2017) Academic choices and motivation: Diverse groups in Israel. Journal of Further and Higher Education 41:5, pages 642-656.
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N. Rowbottom. (2017) Widening participation and contextual entry policy in accounting and finance. Accounting Education 26:3, pages 242-264.
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Sue Webb, Penny Jane Burke, Susan Nichols, Steven Roberts, Garth Stahl, Steven Threadgold & Jane Wilkinson. (2017) Thinking with and beyond Bourdieu in widening higher education participation. Studies in Continuing Education 39:2, pages 138-160.
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Vicky Duckworth, Liz Thomas & Derek Bland. (2016) Joining the dots between teacher education and widening participation in higher education. Research in Post-Compulsory Education 21:3, pages 260-277.
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Linda la Velle, David Reynolds & Jon Nichol. (2013) An unusually effective school/university programme: the Plymouth and Peninsula Model. Journal of Education for Teaching 39:4, pages 400-415.
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Neil Harrison & Sue Hatt. (2012) Expensive and failing? The role of student bursaries in widening participation and fair access in England. Studies in Higher Education 37:6, pages 695-712.
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Izhar Oplatka & Orit Lapidot. (2012) Muslim women in graduate studies: some insights into the accessibility of higher education for minority women students. Studies in Higher Education 37:3, pages 327-344.
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Penny Jane Burke & Jackie McManus. (2011) Art for a few: exclusions and misrecognitions in higher education admissions practices. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 32:5, pages 699-712.
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Sarab Abu‐Rabia‐Queder & Khaled Arar. (2011) Gender and higher education in different national spaces: Female Palestinian students attending Israeli and Jordanian universities. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 41:3, pages 353-370.
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Gavin Brown. (2011) Emotional geographies of young people's aspirations for adult life. Children's Geographies 9:1, pages 7-22.
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David Chilosi, Margaret Noble, Philip Broadhead & Mike Wilkinson. (2010) Measuring the effect of Aimhigher on schooling attainment and higher education applications and entries. Journal of Further and Higher Education 34:1, pages 1-10.
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Brian Miller. (2010) The price of higher education: how rational is British tuition fee policy?. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 32:1, pages 85-95.
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Cath Lambert. (2009) Pedagogies of participation in higher education: a case for research‐based learning. Pedagogy, Culture & Society 17:3, pages 295-309.
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Daniela Fernandez, Emily Orazzo, Emma Fry, Alice McMain, Michelle K. Ryan, Chuk Yan Wong & Christopher T. Begeny. (2024) Gender and social class inequalities in higher education: intersectional reflections on a workshop experience. Frontiers in Psychology 14.
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Pedro Pineda & Shweta Mishra. (2022) The semantics of diversity in higher education: differences between the Global North and Global South. Higher Education 85:4, pages 865-886.
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George Koutsouris, Lauren Stentiford & Brahm Norwich. (2022) A critical exploration of inclusion policies of elite UK universities. British Educational Research Journal 48:5, pages 878-895.
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Javier Rivas, Rhys Sparey, Jonathan Davies, Caroline Gleason-Mercier, Sarah Hughes, Susannah Knights & Esther Cavett. (2021) Voices from Southwark: Reflections on a collaborative music teaching project in London in the age of COVID-19. International Journal of Community Music 14:2, pages 169-189.
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Jill R. D. MacKay, Emily Nordmann, Leigh Murray, Alison Browitt, Monika Anderson & Jacqui Hutchison. (2021) The Cost of Asking: ‘Say that Again?’: A Social Capital Theory View Into How Lecture Recording Supports Widening Participation. Frontiers in Education 6.
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Joanne Davies, Michael Donnelly & Andres Sandoval‐Hernandez. (2021) Geographies of elite higher education participation: An urban ‘escalator’ effect. British Educational Research Journal 47:4, pages 1079-1101.
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Iakovos Tsiplakides. (2018) The Effectively Maintained Inequality Hypothesis and Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Greek Higher Education Sector. Advanced Journal of Social Science 2:1, pages 23-31.
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Colin McCaig. 2018. Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education. Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education 51 72 .
Adriana Díaz & Camilo Olaya. (2017) An Engineering View for Social Systems: Agency as an Operational Principle for Designing Higher Education Access Policies. Systemic Practice and Action Research 30:6, pages 627-649.
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Khalid Arae & Kussai Haj-Yehia. 2016. Handbook of Research on Study Abroad Programs and Outbound Mobility. Handbook of Research on Study Abroad Programs and Outbound Mobility 66 87 .
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Sam Illingworth, James Redfern, Steve Millington & Sam Gray. (2015) What’s in a Name? Exploring the Nomenclature of Science Communication in the UK. F1000Research 4, pages 409.
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Yenna Salamonson, Bronwyn Everett, Elizabeth Halcomb, Marie Hutchinson, Debra Jackson, Judy Mannix, Kath Peters & Roslyn Weaver. (2015) Unravelling the complexities of nursing students' feedback on the clinical learning environment: A mixed methods approach. Nurse Education Today 35:1, pages 206-211.
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Mark O’Brien. (2013) Repositioning the subject discipline for an ‘academic-enhancement’ model of widening participation: A philosophical sketch. Active Learning in Higher Education 14:3, pages 241-250.
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Khalid Arar & Kussai Haj‐Yehia. (2013) Higher education abroad. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 5:1, pages 95-112.
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Liz Thomas, Derek Bland & Vicky Duckworth. (2012) Teachers as advocates for widening participation. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning 14:2, pages 40-58.
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Khalid Arar & Mohanned Mustafa. (2011) Access to higher education for Palestinians in Israel. Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues 4:3, pages 207-228.
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Rachel Brooks. (2008) Accessing Higher Education: The Influence of Cultural and Social Capital on University Choice. Sociology Compass 2:4, pages 1355-1371.
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