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'Understanding the Contemporary Higher Education Student: a one-day seminar'
Wednesday, 21st September 2016
University of Surrey, Lecture Theatre Block, LT J
Provisional programme
09.30-10.00 Coffee and registration
10.00-10.15 Welcome and launch of the 'EuroStudents' project
Rachel Brooks, University of Surrey
10.15-11.15 Keynote presentation
Michael Tomlinson, University of Southampton
11.15-11.30 Break
11.30-13.00 Parallel sessions
Session A: LTJ
Spatial and social (im)mobilities through higher education
Michael Donnelly, University of Bath
Students in cities - the everyday mobilities of contemporary UK students
Mark Holton, Plymouth University and Kirsty Finn, Lancaster University
'Talent-spotting'? Inequality, cultural sorting and constructions of the ideal employable graduate
Nicola Ingram, Lancaster University and Kim Allen, University of Leeds
Session B: LTF
Her majesty the student: marketised higher education and the narcissistic (dis)satisfactions of the student-consumer
Elizabeth Nixon, Richard Scullion and Robert Hearn, University of Nottingham
The student-as-consumer versus the student-as-learner: some preliminary findings from the UK
Stefanie Sonnenberg, University of Portsmouth
Understanding the student experience
Rachel Spacey and Mary Stuart, University of Lincoln
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Parallel sessions
Session C: LTJ
Unreasonable rage, disobedient dissent: the social construction of student activists through media and institutional discourses in the United Kingdom
Jessica Gagnon, University of Portsmouth
'I am completely uninterested in politics': 'Filial nationalism' and 'rational patriotism' as mainland Chinese students' political orientations in Hong Kong
Cora Lingling Xu, University of Cambridge
Understanding the contemporary HE student: 'It's like a bubble. You just get sucked in'
Grace Sykes, University of Northampton
Session D: LTF
How institutional doxa can shape choice within higher education
Jon Rainford, Staffordshire University
Contemporary students' rights: a discursive strategy to overcome hysteresis in a post-92 HE setting
Karl Baker-Green and Cinnamon Bennett, Sheffield Hallam University
Paradoxes of the academisation process: a sociological exploration of the history of foreign and classical language education since 1864
Eric Lybeck, University of Exeter
15.30-15.45 Break
15.45-16.45 Keynote presentation
Anna Mountford-Zimdars, King's College London
16.45-17.00 Concluding comments
To attend the seminar, please register at: http://store.surrey.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=125&catid=266&prodid=2876 (There is a small charge of £30.)
Rachel Brooks
Professor of Sociology and Head of Department of Sociology
Executive Editor, British Journal of Sociology of Education
University of Surrey
Guildford
GU2 7XH
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Twitter: @_rachel_brooks
New 'EuroStudents' research project: www.eurostudents.net<http://www.eurostudents.net>
Latest article: Brooks, R., Byford, K. and Sela, K (2015) The spaces of UK students' unions: extending the critical geographies of the university campus<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649365.2015.1089585>, Social and Cultural Geography, 17, 4, 471-490.
