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Gatekeepers and producers of global sociological knowledge: exploring the stated aims, editorial boards and author networks of disciplinary journals (2023)
Presentation / Conference

This paper aims to analyse leading international sociology journals regarding the interplay of the centre-periphery relations as observed within their aims, editorial boards and author networks. As such, it explores the geographies of knowledge in th... Read More about Gatekeepers and producers of global sociological knowledge: exploring the stated aims, editorial boards and author networks of disciplinary journals.

Exploring the role of sociological research in curriculum documents and the eyes of Norwegian, Hungarian and English students (2023)
Presentation / Conference

Over the past few decades, there have been increased discussions on the relationships between research and teaching in higher education, subject to influence from a variety of structural and agentical factors that change over time. This paper is base... Read More about Exploring the role of sociological research in curriculum documents and the eyes of Norwegian, Hungarian and English students.

From being social, to becoming academic, and leaving as a graduate - Transformative university transitions (2023)
Presentation / Conference

Drawing on a longitudinal research project that followed the undergraduate entrants of 2013 into, and through their university time, this paper provides a novel conceptualisation of transformative transitions via looking at the four dimensions of non... Read More about From being social, to becoming academic, and leaving as a graduate - Transformative university transitions.

How ‘global’ are sociology journals in the Web of Science database? Exploring journal aims, editorial board networks and authorship (2023)
Presentation / Conference

A knowledge hierarchy has long been present within the academic community dominated by producers, publishers and journals from western countries (Heilbron, 2014), whilst inequalities in who gets to edit and author have prompted calls for more inclusi... Read More about How ‘global’ are sociology journals in the Web of Science database? Exploring journal aims, editorial board networks and authorship.

How international are sociology journals? – Analysis of aims, editorial boards and gatekeeper networks (2023)
Presentation / Conference

Academic prestige is conceptualised differently based on national context; yet internationally, the notion of "excellence" permeates the global discourse on knowledge production. A knowledge hierarchy has long been present within the academic communi... Read More about How international are sociology journals? – Analysis of aims, editorial boards and gatekeeper networks.

Sociology students' perceptions of themselves within the discipline - an international comparative analysis (2023)
Presentation / Conference

This paper looks at how sociology students at several different universities in three countries see their discipline and themselves within it. It draws on the Bernstein’s notion of powerful knowledge that disrupts inequalities, as well as Burawoy’s u... Read More about Sociology students' perceptions of themselves within the discipline - an international comparative analysis.

Az oktatás/kutatás viszonya a magyar szociológiában – hallgatói és oktatói tapasztalatok összehasonlítása (2022)
Journal Article

Az oktatás/kutatás viszonya a magyar szociológiában-hallgatói és oktatói tapasztalatok összehasonlítása HOR DÓSY R ITA*-JEN NIFER NOR R IS University of Nottingham (Egyesült Királyság) Beérkezett: 2021. szeptember 20., elfogadva: 2022. április 9. E t... Read More about Az oktatás/kutatás viszonya a magyar szociológiában – hallgatói és oktatói tapasztalatok összehasonlítása.

International comparisons at the crossroads of policy, practice and research: The case of school leavers' and graduates' information systems (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter introduces an internationally comparative study of school leavers’ and graduates’ datasets, looking at how they are produced and used in educational policy planning, institutional decision-making and informing students. The research cont... Read More about International comparisons at the crossroads of policy, practice and research: The case of school leavers' and graduates' information systems.

‘I’ve changed in every possible way someone could change’–transformative university transitions (2021)
Journal Article

Drawing on a longitudinal research project that followed the undergraduate entrants of 2013 into, and through their university time, this paper provides a novel conceptualisation of transformative transitions via looking at the four dimensions of non... Read More about ‘I’ve changed in every possible way someone could change’–transformative university transitions.

‘Possible Selves’ in practice: how students at Further Education Colleges in England conceptualise university (2021)
Journal Article

© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper reports on a project in the North of England that looks at the college-to-university decision-making processes of non-traditional students through the conceptual lens of ‘Poss... Read More about ‘Possible Selves’ in practice: how students at Further Education Colleges in England conceptualise university.

Social Identification, Widening Participation and Higher Education: Experiencing Similarity and Difference in an English Red Brick University (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. In 2012, the UK government introduced the National Scholarship Programme – a scheme that aimed to ensure that young people from families with low household incomes would not be discouraged from entry into higher education by inc... Read More about Social Identification, Widening Participation and Higher Education: Experiencing Similarity and Difference in an English Red Brick University.

‘It’s Scary and It’s Big, and There’s No Job Security’: Undergraduate Experiences of Career Planning and Stratification in an English Red Brick University (2018)
Journal Article

There is a continuing trend within higher education policy to frame undergraduate study as ‘human capital investment’—a financial transaction whereby the employment returns of a degree are monetary. However, this distinctly neoliberal imaginary ignor... Read More about ‘It’s Scary and It’s Big, and There’s No Job Security’: Undergraduate Experiences of Career Planning and Stratification in an English Red Brick University.