‘Regional structures of feeling’ in UK university choices? New paper from our @ESRC project - complete with useful student migration matrix and pretty maps! https://t.co/KiJ2Z1CdeX
Children from the poorest backgrounds are three times more likely to not take part in any of those extra-curricular activities examined compared to those from the wealthiest backgrounds 🏐🥁🎷
#UnequalPlayingField#SocialMobility
https://t.co/AZKsBORAkE
@SolGamsu and me worked with sociolinguist Alex Baratta @EducationUoM to write this - how concepts from linguistics can push forward sociological work on accent and social mobility @EducationBATH @DurhamSociology https://t.co/a0SVUVzN6v
Mapping the changing residential geography of White British secondary school children in England using visually balanced cartograms and hexograms https://t.co/BTZ5Dx974y (assembling some fine geographers in one paper: @profrichharris@martin_charlton & @chrisbrunsdon)
I am looking for an ambitious junior scholar to conduct a transdisciplinary doctoral research project on creative research dissemination practice. Interested? Please apply before the 9th of July! https://t.co/2AkqmbTDnT
The report from @IFS and @UniofBathIPR for @educationgovuk shows the importance of subject choice and institution: students who studied Economics or Medicine earn approx. 60% more than students of History or English 5-years post-graduation.
We're delighted to announce three new vacancies at the IPR; Research Associate, Research Assistant and Marketing and Communications Assistant. So if you’d love to join our great team please find out more including how to apply: https://t.co/kcQMQXEwPW
Looking forward to speaking tomorrow @WISERDNews about Welsh data from our project. Will be talking on perceptions of Wales as a place to study amongst UK and international students, elite formation and Welsh universities and international students in Welsh private schools.
Delighted to announce our Sat 16-Jun keynote speaker is Dr Sol Gamsu @SolGamsu of @EducationBATH We look forward to hearing about Sol’s work on the @HEMobilities project on the geographies of social mobility in education and his transition from PhD to a Research post #DocEd2018
“The Sutton Trust found that 51% of the country’s leading journalists were educated privately, and 80% of its top editors went to either private or grammar schools.”
Read our research on Britain's #leadingpeople https://t.co/8iZPeeiSmA
https://t.co/ircOqMQt8v
Applications to participate in our Festival of Social Science 2018 (3-10 Nov) are now open! Reach new audiences and celebrate #socialsciences - learn more about the #esrcfestival and how to get involved: https://t.co/lDUAXMTHJq
Looking forward to returning to Spain this week for our second round of focus group interviews with students and our policy maker interviews - thanks to all who are giving up their time to talk to us
"Student mobility, whether or not a student leaves home to study and how far they are willing to travel if so, is a major dimension of inequality within higher education choice and experience.”
Take a look at our latest research on #studentmobility here: https://t.co/O96rXpJgFX
New open access output from our @ESRC project: unearthing the political doctrines that underly widening participation policy across countries of the U.K. https://t.co/6gFcvYxxhZ