All Outputs (6)

Social Identification, Widening Participation and Higher Education: Experiencing Similarity and Difference in an English Red Brick University (2018)
Journal Article
Clark, T., & Hordósy, R. (2019). Social Identification, Widening Participation and Higher Education: Experiencing Similarity and Difference in an English Red Brick University. Sociological Research Online, 24(3), 353-369. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418811971

© 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
Hordósy, R., & Clark, T. (2018). ‘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. Social Sciences, 7(10), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci7100173

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.

Beyond the compulsory: a critical exploration of the experiences of extracurricular activity and employability in a northern red brick university (2018)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R., & Clark, T. (2018). Beyond the compulsory: a critical exploration of the experiences of extracurricular activity and employability in a northern red brick university. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 23(3), 414-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2018.1490094

© 2018, © 2018 Association for Research in Post‐Compulsory Education (ARPCE). There has been an increasing emphasis placed on the skills and attributes that university students develop whilst studying for their degree. These ‘narratives of employabil... Read More about Beyond the compulsory: a critical exploration of the experiences of extracurricular activity and employability in a northern red brick university.

Five years of WPREU - Critical reflections on evaluation, policy and practice in widening participation and student success (2018)
Book
Crockford, J., Baker, Z., Brown, G., Hordosy, R., Linskill, S., & Miller, M. (2018). Five years of WPREU - Critical reflections on evaluation, policy and practice in widening participation and student success. University of Sheffield

Student budgets and widening participation: Comparative experiences of finance in low and higher income undergraduates at a northern red brick university (2018)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R., & Clark, T. (2019). Student budgets and widening participation: Comparative experiences of finance in low and higher income undergraduates at a northern red brick university. Social Policy and Administration, 53(5), 761-775. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12410

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Drawing on a thematic analysis of longitudinal qualitative data (ntotal=118), this article takes a “whole student lifecycle” approach to examine how lower and higher income students at an English northern red brick univ... Read More about Student budgets and widening participation: Comparative experiences of finance in low and higher income undergraduates at a northern red brick university.

Lower income students and the ‘double deficit’ of part-time work: undergraduate experiences of finance, studying and employability (2018)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R., Clark, T., & Vickers, D. (2018). Lower income students and the ‘double deficit’ of part-time work: undergraduate experiences of finance, studying and employability. Journal of Education and Work, 31(4), 353-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2018.1498068

This paper explores how the various pressures of finance, employability and part-time work are experienced by undergraduates studying in an English Red Brick University. Drawing on the results of a 3-year qualitative study that followed 40 students t... Read More about Lower income students and the ‘double deficit’ of part-time work: undergraduate experiences of finance, studying and employability.