Social Class, Rurality and Access to Higher Education

I’ve recently been reading about research into working class students and their experience of Higher Education. Wolfgang Lehmann has written … More

Widening Access in Rural Areas

The Scottish Government has just published “A Blueprint for Fairness: The Final Report of the Commission on Widening Access”. The … More

Charlie Ball (who writes the High Peak Data blog) has just written about his predictions for the graduate labour market … More

Last week I was invited to attend a meeting at Holyrood to discuss the issue of Social Mobility in Scotland … More

Earlier this week I came across a news report about a piece of research conducted in London. The researchers used … More

Tidying up, I just found an essay I wrote when I was 16 which was published in the Western Morning … More

I have just read two quite different research papers, the first by Christopher Atkin looks at young people’s decisions at … More

Well, this is exciting. I have just published my first article about my research! The article appears in the National Institute … More

This statement was made by Paul Willis in his classic 1977 book ‘Learning to Labour: how working class kids get … More

In my Masters research into the experience of recent graduates living and working in Orkney, one of my key findings … More