There are many researchers conducting work on similar issues, related to students in contemporary higher education. We have added some links to relevant websites here. If you know of others that you think it would be useful for us to include, please get in touch!
ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK – the Centre is carrying out three main research programmes, which relate to: (i) Globalisation, UK Higher Education and the Public Contributions of HEIs; (ii) Socio-economic Implications of High Participation Higher Education; and (iii) Institutions, People and Learning in Local/Global Higher Education Settings
EUROSTUDENT project – a cross-national survey that collects socio-economic data on higher education students across Europe
Universities in the Knowledge Economy (UNIKE) – a collaborative research project, across six different higher education institutions, investigating the dynamic relationships between universities and knowledge economies in Europe and in the Asia-Pacific Rim