Constructing the Higher Education Student: a comparative study of six European countries

Project Information

EUROSTUDENTS

Grant agreement ID: 681018

DOI

10.3030/681018

Project closed

EC signature date 14 April 2016

Start date 1 August 2016

End date 31 July 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 753 936,00

EU contribution

€ 1 753 936,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF SURREY
United Kingdom

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Publications

Monographic books (2)

Constructing the Higher Education Student. Perspectives from across Europe

Author(s): Rachel Brooks, Achala Gupta, Sazana Jayadeva, Anu Lainio and Predrag Lažetić
Published in: 2022, ISBN 9781447359623
Publisher: Policy Press
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2mgg2sp

Reimagining the Higher Education Student. Constructing and Contesting Identities

Author(s): Rachel Brooks, Sarah O'Shea
Published in: 2021, ISBN 9780367426538
Publisher: Routledge

Book chapters (5)

Constructing students as family members: contestations in media and policy representations across Europe

Author(s): Anu Lainio, Rachel Brooks
Published in: Reimagining the Higher Education Student. Constructing and Contesting Identities, 2021
Publisher: Routledge

Conclusion

Author(s): Sarah O'Shea, Rachel Brooks
Published in: Reimagining the Higher Education Student. Constructing and Contesting Identities, 2021
Publisher: Routledge

Higher education students as consumers? Evidence from England

Author(s): Rachel Brooks, Jessica Abrahams
Published in: Educational Choices, Aspirations and Transitions in Europe: Systemic, Institutional and Subjective Challenges, 2018, ISBN 9781-138104037
Publisher: Routledge

Reimagining the higher education student: an introduction

Author(s): Rachel Brooks, Sarah O'Shea
Published in: Reimagining the Higher Education Student. Constructing and Contesting Identities, 2021
Publisher: Routledge

Access to and Experiences of Higher Education across Europe: the Impact of Social Characteristics

Author(s): Rachel Brooks, Jessie Abrahams, Predrag Lazetic, Achala Gupta and Sazana Jayadeva
Published in: European Higher Education Area: Challenges for a New Decade, 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-56316-5
Publisher: Springer

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Are Spanish Students Customers? Paradoxical Perceptions of the Impact of Marketisation on Higher Education in Spain:

Author(s): Sazana Jayadeva; Rachel Brooks; Achala Gupta; Jessie Abrahams; Predrag Lažetić; Anu Lainio
Published in: Sociological Research Online, Issue 26, 1, 2021, Page(s) 185-204, ISSN 1360-7804
Publisher: Sociological Research Online
DOI: 10.1177/1360780420968577

Europe as spatial imaginary? Narratives from higher education ‘policy influencers’ across the continent

Author(s): Rachel Brooks
Published in: Journal of Education Policy, Issue 36, 2, 2019, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 0268-0939
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2019.1672212

Using creative methods to research across difference. An introduction to the special issue

Author(s): Rachel Brooks, Anu Lainio, Predrag Lažetić
Published in: International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Issue 23/1, 2020, Page(s) 1-6, ISSN 1364-5579
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672281

The construction of higher education students within national policy: a cross-European comparison

Author(s): Rachel Brooks
Published in: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 0305-7925
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2019.1604118

European Higher Education Students: Contested Constructions

Author(s): Rachel Brooks, Jessie Abrahams
Published in: Sociological Research Online, Issue 26, 4, 2021, Page(s) 810-832, ISSN 1360-7804
Publisher: Sociological Research Online
DOI: 10.1177/1360780420973042

Students as political actors? Similarities and differences across six European nations

Author(s): Rachel Brooks, Achala Gupta, Sazana Jayadeva, Jessica Abrahams, Predrag Lažetić
Published in: British Educational Research Journal, Issue 46, 6, 2020, Page(s) 1193-1209, ISSN 0141-1926
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1002/berj.3628

Studying similarities and differences in higher education organisations based on their websites – comparative methodological approaches and research potential

Author(s): Predrag Lažetić
Published in: International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Issue 23/1, 2020, Page(s) 75-90, ISSN 1364-5579
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672286

Higher Education Timescapes: Temporal Understandings of Students and Learning:

Author(s): Rachel Brooks; Jessie Abrahams; Achala Gupta; Sazana Jayadeva; Predrag Lažetić
Published in: Sociology, Issue 55, 5, 2021, Page(s) 995-1014, ISSN 0038-0385
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0038038521996979

The (stereo)typical student: how European higher education students feel they are viewed by relevant others

Author(s): Sazana Jayadeva; Rachel Brooks, Jessie Abrahams
Published in: British Journal of Sociology of Education, Issue 43, 1, 2022, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 0142-5692
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2021.2007358

Understanding the higher education student in Europe: a comparative analysis

Author(s): Rachel Brooks
Published in: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Issue 48, 4, 2017, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 0305-7925
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2017.1318047

The construction of higher education students in English policy documents

Author(s): Rachel Brooks
Published in: British Journal of Sociology of Education, Issue 39, 6, 2017, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 0142-5692
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2017.1406339

Higher education mobilities: a cross-national European comparison

Author(s): Rachel Brooks
Published in: Geoforum, Issue 93, 2018, Page(s) 87-96, ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.05.009

Higher education students as political actors: evidence from England and Ireland

Author(s): Jessie Abrahams, Rachel Brooks
Published in: Journal of Youth Studies, Issue 22, 6, 2018, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 1367-6261
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2018.1484431

Students and university websites—consumers of corporate brands or novices in the academic community?

Author(s): Predrag Lažetić
Published in: Higher Education, Issue 77, 6, 2018, Page(s) 995-1013, ISSN 0018-1560
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-018-0315-5

Diversity and the European higher education student: policy influencers’ narratives of difference

Author(s): Rachel Brooks
Published in: Studies in Higher Education, Issue 45, 7, 2019, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 0307-5079
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2018.1564263

Higher education students’ aspirations for their post-university lives: evidence from six European nations

Author(s): Brooks, Rachel; Gupta, Achala; Jayadeva, Sazana
Published in: Children's Geographies, 2021, ISSN 1473-3285
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2021.1934403

Students as consumers? The perspectives of students' union leaders across Europe

Author(s): Rachel Brooks
Published in: Higher Education Quarterly, Issue 76, 3, 2021, Page(s) 626-637, ISSN 0951-5224
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/hequ.12332

Paradise lost or created? How higher-education staff perceive the impact of policy on students

Author(s): Sazana Jayadeva, Rachel Brooks, Predrag Lazetic
Published in: Journal of Education Policy, 2021, ISSN 0268-0939
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2021.1903083

Asserting the Nation: The Dominance of National Narratives in Policy Influencers’ Constructions of Higher Education Students

Author(s): Rachel Brooks
Published in: Sociological Research Online, Issue 25/2, 2020, Page(s) 273-288, ISSN 1360-7804
Publisher: Sociological Research Online
DOI: 10.1177/1360780419871577

Students in Marketised Higher Education Landscapes: An Introduction:

Author(s): Rachel Brooks; Achala Gupta; Sazana Jayadeva; Anu Lainio
Published in: Sociological Research Online, Issue 26, 1, 2021, Page(s) 125-129, ISSN 1360-7804
Publisher: Sociological Research Online
DOI: 10.1177/1360780420971651

Students’ views about the purpose of higher education: a comparative analysis of six European countries

Author(s): Rachel Brooks, Achala Gupta, Sazana Jayadeva, Jessie Abrahams
Published in: Higher Education Research & Development, Issue 40, 7, 2020, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 0729-4360
Publisher: Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2020.1830039