Books and special issues of journals
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S. and Lainio, A. (eds) (2023) Constructing the ‘ideal’ contemporary higher education student, International Studies in the Sociology of Education (special issue)
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, A., Lainio, A. and Lazetic, P. (2022) Constructing the Higher Education Student: Perspectives from across Europe, Bristol, Policy Press.
Brooks, R. and O’Shea, S. (eds) (2021) Reimagining the Higher Education Student London, Routledge.
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S. and Lainio, A. (eds) (2021) Students in Marketised Higher Education Landscapes, Sociological Research Online (special section).
Brooks, R., Lainio, A. and Lazetic, P. (eds) (2020) Using creative methods to research across difference, International Journal of Social Research Methodology (special issue).
Journal articles
Lee, J., Brooks, R. and Abrahams, J. (2023) Students, community and belonging: an investigation of student experience across six European countries, Higher Education Research and Development. (Open access)
Lainio, A. (2023) Independent learner as the ideal – normative representations of higher education students in film and television drama across Europe, Critical Studies in Education (advance online access). (Open access)
Gupta, A., Brooks, R. and Abrahams, J. (2023) Higher education students as consumers: a cross-country comparative analysis of students’ views, Compare. (Open access)
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S. and Lainio, A. (2023) Constructing ‘ideal’ students within contemporary higher education (editorial introduction), International Studies in the Sociology of Education, 32, 1, 1-10.
Brooks, R., Gupta, A. and Jayadeva, S. (2023) Higher education students’ aspirations for their post-university lives: evidence from six European nations, Children’s Geographies, 21, 2, 177-190. (Open access)
Jayadeva, S., Brooks, R. and Abrahams, J. (2022) The (Stereo)typical Student: How European higher education students feel they are viewed by relevant others, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 43, 1, 1-21. (Open access)
Brooks, R. and Abrahams, J. (2021) European higher education students: contested constructions, Sociological Research Online, 26, 4, 810-832. (Open access) [**Won best article award for 2022 – Comparative and International Education Society – Higher Education Special Interest Group**]
Brooks, R. (2021) Students as consumers? The perspectives of students’ union leaders across Europe, Higher Education Quarterly. (Open access)
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S. and Abrahams, J. (2021) Students’ views about the purpose of higher education: a comparative analysis of six European countries, Higher Education Research and Development, 40, 7, 1375-1388. (Open access.)
Jayadeva, S., Brooks, R. and Lazetic, P. (2021) Paradise lost or created? How higher-education staff perceive the impact of policy on students, Journal of Education Policy. (Open access)
Brooks, R., Abrahams, J., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S. and Lazetic, P. (2021) Higher education timescapes: temporal understandings of students and learning, Sociology, 55, 5, 995-1014. (Open access)
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S. and Lainio, A. (2021) Students in marketised higher education landscapes: an introduction, Sociological Research Online, 26, 1, 125-129. (Special section: Students in marketised higher education landscapes) (Open access)
Jayadeva, S., Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Abrahams, J., Lazetic, P. and Lainio, A. (2021) Are Spanish students customers? Paradoxical perceptions of the impact of marketisation on higher education in Spain, Sociological Research Online, 26, 1, 185-204. (Open access)
Brooks, R. (2021) The construction of higher education students within national policy: a cross-European comparison, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 51, 2, 161-180. (Open access version available here.)
Brooks, R. (2021) Europe as spatial imaginary? Narratives from higher education ‘policy influencers’ across the continent, Journal of Education Policy, 36, 2, 159-178. (Open access version available here.)
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S., Abrahams, J. and Lazetic, P. (2020) Students as political actors? Similarities and differences across six European countries, British Educational Research Journal, 46, 6, 1193-1209. (Open access.)
Brooks, R. (2020) Diversity and the European higher education student: policy influencers’ narratives of difference, Studies in Higher Education, 45, 7, 1507-1518. (Open access version is available here.)
Brooks, R. (2020) Asserting the nation: the dominance of national narratives in policymakers’ constructions of higher education students, Sociological Research Online, 25, 2, 273-288. (Open access version available here.)
Brooks, R., Lainio, A. and Lazetic, P. (2020) Using creative methods to research across difference. An introduction to the special issue, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23, 1, 1-6. (Open access version available here.)
Lazetic, P. (2020) Studying similarities and differences in higher education organisations based on their websites – comparative methodological approaches and research potential, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23, 1, 75-90. (Open access version available here.)
Abrahams, J. and Brooks, R. (2019) Higher education students as political actors: evidence from England and Ireland, Journal of Youth Studies, 22, 1, 108-123. (Open access)
Lazetic, P. (2019) Students and university websites – consumers of corporate brands or novices in the academic community?, Higher Education, 77, 6, 995-1013. (Open access version is available here.)
Brooks, R. (2018) The construction of higher education students in English policy documents, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39, 6, 745-761. (Open access)
Brooks, R. (2018) Higher education mobilities: a cross-national European comparison, Geoforum, 93, 87-96. (Open access)
Brooks, R. (2018) Understanding the higher education student in Europe: a comparative analysis, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 48, 4, 500-517. (Open access version is available here.)
Book chapters
Lainio, A. and Brooks, R. (2021) Constructing students as family members: contestations in media and policy representations across Europe, in: Brooks, R. and O’Shea, S. (eds) Reimagining the Higher Education Student London, Routledge.
Brooks, R. and O’Shea, S. (2021) Reimagining the higher education student: an introduction, in: Brooks, R. and O’Shea, S. (eds) Reimagining the Higher Education Student London, Routledge.
O’Shea, S. and Brooks, R. (2021) Conclusion, in: Brooks, R. and O’Shea, S. (eds) Reimagining the Higher Education Student London, Routledge.
Brooks, R., Abrahams, J., Lazetic, P., Gupta, A. and Jayadeva, S. (2020) Access to and Experiences of Higher Education across Europe: the Impact of Social Characteristics, in: Curaj, A., Deca, L. and Pricopie, R. (eds) The European Higher Education Area: Challenges for a New Decade Springer.
Brooks, R. and Abrahams, J. (2018) Higher education students as consumers? Evidence from England, in: Tarabini, A. and Ingram, N. (eds) Educational Choices, Aspirations and Transitions in Europe London, Routledge.
Non-academic outputs
Brooks, R. (2021) Higher education and diversity in Europe, Sociology Review Magazine.
Jayadeva, S. (2021) Do Spanish students see themselves as customers? WonkHE, 26 January 2021.
Gupta, A. (2021) What’s the purpose of university? Your answer may depend on how much it cost you, The Conversation, 8 January 2021.
Brooks, R. (2020) Students not as apathetic as policymakers like to think, University World News, 28 June 2020.
Brooks, R. (2020) Asserting the nation: the dominance of national narratives in policymakers’ constructions of higher education students, Society for Research into Higher Education blog, 16 March 2020.
Brooks, R. (2019) Using creative methods to research across difference, International Journal of Social Research Methodology – Editors’ Notebook, 12 December 2019.
Brooks, R. (2019) ‘Diversity and European Higher Education Students: National Perspectives in a Global Age’, European Association for International Education ‘Conference Conversation Starter’ publication.
Brooks, R. (2019) European students are not a homogenous group, University World News, 1 June 2019.
Brooks, R. (2019) ‘Diversity in understandings of higher education students across Europe’, Research Professional newsletter and website, 8 November 2019.
Brooks, R. (2017) Constructing the higher education student: a comparative study of six European countries, Society for Research into Higher Education blog, 4 January 2017.