UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEMPORARY HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENT: ONE-DAY SEMINAR
Wednesday, 21st September 2016; University of Surrey, LTJ, Lecture Theatre Block
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
09.30-10.00, Registration
10.00-10.15, Welcome and overview of the ‘EuroStudents’ project: Rachel Brooks, University of Surrey
10.15-11.15, Keynote presentation: Michael Tomlinson, University of Southampton
Student Experience in Context: higher education policy and the changing value of university education
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, Northampton University
Session D: LTF
How institutional doxa an 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: Johanna Waters, University of Oxford
Biopolitics and the ‘making’ of the unexceptional student: some geographical reflections on education in East Asia
16.45-17.00, Concluding comments
To attend the seminar, please register here. (There is a small charge of £30.)
