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Staying and studying: narratives of local higher education in small island colleges (2021)
Journal Article
Henderson, H. (2022). Staying and studying: narratives of local higher education in small island colleges. Higher Education Research and Development, 41(7), 2187-2200. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2021.1996340

Due to the unequal geographical distribution of HE institutions in many national HE systems, living in a rural or remote area and attending HE can be mutually exclusive. The implication is that those who remain in a rural area beyond school age do no... Read More about Staying and studying: narratives of local higher education in small island colleges.

Calculating the cost: place, mobility and price in higher education decision-making for students on small islands around the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Henderson, H. (2023). Calculating the cost: place, mobility and price in higher education decision-making for students on small islands around the UK. Educational Review, 75(5), 851-870. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1984213

The decision of whether and where to attend higher education is an inherently geographical decision. Amongst the structural inequalities that determine how decisions about higher education are made are a number of complex socio-spatial factors rangin... Read More about Calculating the cost: place, mobility and price in higher education decision-making for students on small islands around the UK.

Moving beyond immobility: Spatial stories of undergraduate mobility at the “local” college (2020)
Journal Article
Henderson, H. (2020). Moving beyond immobility: Spatial stories of undergraduate mobility at the “local” college. Population, Space and Place, 26(3), Article e2319. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2319

In the English higher education context, “going to” university is commonly associated with leaving the familial home at the age of 18 and moving to a new city. This article sets out to problematise dominant narratives of student mobilities, by focusi... Read More about Moving beyond immobility: Spatial stories of undergraduate mobility at the “local” college.

Place and student subjectivities in Higher Education ‘cold spots’ (2019)
Journal Article
Henderson, H. (2020). Place and student subjectivities in Higher Education ‘cold spots’. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41(3), 331-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1703646

This article uses an analytical framework informed by social geographies to explore the complex relationships between Higher Education Institution, undergraduate student and place. Drawing on findings from a qualitative study exploring the experience... Read More about Place and student subjectivities in Higher Education ‘cold spots’.

Competing inequalities: gender versus race in higher education institutions in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Bhopal, K., & Henderson, H. (2019). Competing inequalities: gender versus race in higher education institutions in the UK. Educational Review, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2019.1642305

This article explores findings from two projects that explore the impacts and institutional experiences of the Athena SWAN (ASC) and Race Equality (REC) Charter Marks in UK universities. The article offers an important, timely and original insight in... Read More about Competing inequalities: gender versus race in higher education institutions in the UK.

Difficult questions of difficult questions: the role of the researcher and transcription styles (2017)
Journal Article
Henderson, H. (2018). Difficult questions of difficult questions: the role of the researcher and transcription styles. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 31(2), 143-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2017.1379615

This paper refracts a comparison of three distinct transcription styles through questions of researcher reflexivity. It uses the data from a single question asked by the researcher in multiple interviews for a small empirical project. These data are... Read More about Difficult questions of difficult questions: the role of the researcher and transcription styles.

‘Supportive’, ‘real’, and ‘low-cost’: implicit comparisons and universal assumptions in the construction of the prospective college-based HE student (2017)
Journal Article
Henderson, H. (2018). ‘Supportive’, ‘real’, and ‘low-cost’: implicit comparisons and universal assumptions in the construction of the prospective college-based HE student. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 42(8), 1105-1117. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2017.1349885

This paper first argues for the importance of continued analysis of marketising discourses in Higher Education (HE), both despite and because of their ubiquity. Secondly, the paper looks specifically at college-based HE provision in English Further E... Read More about ‘Supportive’, ‘real’, and ‘low-cost’: implicit comparisons and universal assumptions in the construction of the prospective college-based HE student.

Silence, obligation and fear in the possible selves of UK LGBT-identified teachers (2017)
Journal Article
Henderson, H. (2017). Silence, obligation and fear in the possible selves of UK LGBT-identified teachers. Gender and Education, 31(7), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2017.1354125

This article highlights the complexity of LGBT teacher identities in UK educational contexts. The article argues that the historically dissonant relationship between sexualities and schooling is further compounded by embedded assumptions of heterosex... Read More about Silence, obligation and fear in the possible selves of UK LGBT-identified teachers.