Rachel Brooks was the principal investigator on the project. She is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey in the UK, and an executive editor of the British Journal of Sociology of Education. Rachel has conducted a wide range of projects on different aspects of sociology of education, including international student mobility, young graduates and lifelong learning, the experiences of higher education students with dependent children, and the changing nature of students’ unions.
Over the course of the project, six researchers have been important members of the project team:
Sazana Jayadeva was a post-doctoral research fellow on the project, working in particular on the institutional perspectives strand of research, and is now a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.
Achala Gupta was also a postdoctoral research fellow, working on the student strand of the project. She is now a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Southampton.
Anu Lainio was a postgraduate researcher and research assistant on the project, and led the media representations strand of work. She is now completing her PhD, and working on other research projects in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey.
Jessie Abrahams was a post-doctoral research fellow on the project, and is now a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Bristol. Jessie worked in particular on the student understandings strand.
Predrag Lažetić is also a former post-doctoral fellow on the project, and is now a lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. He focussed on institutional understandings of students.
In the last year of the project, Jihyun Lee joined the project team, as a post-doctoral researcher. She conducted further analysis of the student data. She is now a visiting researcher in the Department of Geography at UCL.