We have agreed that the journal will invite and include notices of recently completed theses in the Sociology of Education. This will be an important resource for readers to follow through as well as to provide the names of colleagues who are new entrants to the discipline.
This is an open invitation starting with theses completed from 2017 onwards. We would like the following information:
Name of author
Thesis title
Awarding university
Degree and year
A 200-word synopsis of the thesis (which must include an indication of overall purposes, theoretical elements, research design and method, nature of conclusions and significance for the sociology of education)
An email address
Please forward these to Helen Oliver, BJSE Editorial Office. Email: [email protected]
We will include this call for the above information in forthcoming issues of the journal.
Executive Editors
Name of author: Zizhen Wang
Thesis title: International Student Migration Behaviour and Labour Market Outcome: A Quantitative Analysis on Social Capital
Awarding university: University College Dublin, Ireland
Degree and year: PhD, 2019
The growing internationalisation of higher education encourages students to be more mobile to develop skills that are in demand in an increasingly globalised labour market for highly skilled individuals. Students’ choices of staying in the host country or returning home after graduation have significant impacts on both their professional opportunities, as well as the social and economic prospects of both host and home countries. This thesis explores tertiary international students as global migrants and investigates how social and human capital influence their destination choices and labour market outcomes upon graduation in Ireland. Drawing on social network theory, the thesis introduces the concepts of bonding and bridging social capital into the literature on international student studies. A web-based survey was carried out among Irish university international alumni from October 2017 to February 2018. The main findings suggest that bridging social capital, especially with local Irish people, significantly increases the likelihood of securing employment, reduces the likelihood of overeducation, and leads to higher paid graduate job in Ireland. This thesis contributes to the sociology of education through examining the educational return of overseas study experience for globally mobile youth, and sheds light on the global educational inequality between developed and developing worlds.
Email: [email protected]