Paired Peers Academic output (as of November 2016)

Publications

Book

Bathmaker, A.-M., Ingram, N., Abrahams, J., Hoare, A., Waller, R. and Bradley, H. (2016) Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility: The Degree Generation, London: Palgrave Macmillan

Book chapters

Ingram, N. and Waller, R. (2014) ‘Degrees of Masculinity’ in Roberts, S. Debating Modern Masculinities: Change, Continuity, Crisis? Palgrave Macmillan

Bradley, H. and Ingram N. (2012) ‘Banking on the Future: choices, aspirations and economic hardship in working-class student experience’ in Atkinson, W., Roberts, S. and Savage, M. (eds) Class Inequalities in Austerity Britain, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 51-69.

Journal articles

Ingram, N. and Waller, R. (2015) ‘Higher education and the reproduction of social elites’, Discover Society, Issue 20, 6th May 2015

Mellor, J., Ingram, N., Abrahams, J. and Beedell, P. (2014) “Class matters in the interview setting? Positionality, situatedness and social class”, British Educational Research Journal, 40 (1), pp. 135-149.

Bathmaker, A-M. and Ingram, N., and Waller, R. (2013) ‘Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals: Knowing and playing the game’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, special issue on education and social mobility, 34 (5-06), pp. 723-743.

Abrahams, J. and Ingram, N. (2013) ‘The Chameleon Habitus: Local students’ negotiations of a multiple fields’ Sociological Review Online, 18 (4) 2 http://www.socresonline.org.uk/18/4/21.html

Presentations

Conference presentations

Ann-Marie Bathmaker (2016) ‘The labour market transitions of recent graduates: narratives of classed experiences‘, paper presented at the SRHE Network for Employability, Enterprise and Work-based Learning seminar entitled Employability and Social Mobility on 24 May 2016 at Aston University Birmingham.

Symposium at the BSA Annual Conference 6-8 April 2016, Aston University, Birmingham: Classed and Gendered Graduate Transitions Into Work: Evidence from the Paired Peers 2 Project

  • Waller, R. & Ingram, N. ‘Show me the Money: Classed and Gendered Success in the City‘
  • Bradley, H.; Abrahams, J. & Bentley, L. ‘Teaching: An Ideal Job for a Woman?‘
  • Bentley, L. & Papafilippou, V. ‘Engineering Graduates: Gendered Transitions into the Workplace‘
  • Papafilippou, V. & Bathmaker, A. M. ‘Choosing Otherwise‘

Symposium at the BSA Annual Conference 6-8 April 2016, Aston University, Birmingham: A Tale of Two Cities: Constructing the Student and Graduate Identity at Universities of Different Status in Two Cities

  • Waller, R. & Papafilippou, V. ‘Who are WE?: Exploring the Construction of the Student Identity at a Post-1992 Institution‘
  • Papafilippou, V. & Waller, R. ‘Constructing the Russell Group Student and Graduate‘

Ingram, N. (2016) ‘The Myth of the Level Playing Field: The Reassertion of Inequalities Through the University Experience‘, paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference 6-8 April 2016, Aston University, Birmingham.

Waller, R. (2016) ‘Degrees of Gendered Distinction: Working Class Male Under-Graduates and their Complex Negotiations of Masculinity‘, paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference 6-8 April 2016, Aston University, Birmingham.

Symposium at the BERA Annual Conference 15-17 September, Belfast: Gender, class and graduate transitions: Findings from the Paired Peers project

  • Bradley, H.; Papafilippou, V. & Bentley, L. ‘Gendered choices in the transition from the university into employment: the case of the engineers
  • Abrahams, J.; Ingram, N. & Bathmaker, A.-M. ‘Graduate labour market transitions: Narratives of classed experience‘
  • Hoare, T. & Waller, R. ‘The Great Beyond: Transitions into the workplace by two universities' graduates‘

Abrahams, J. (2015) 'Honourable Mobility or Shameless Entitlement: Habitus and Graduate Employment' BSA Regional Postgraduate Event: Re-Appropriating Value(s) in Higher Education, University of Manchester, 25th June 2015
Ingram, N. (2015) ‘Cruel Intentions: Why working-class kids can’t get working class jobs’, paper presented at Fighting Inequality of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Working-Class Studies Association, Washington Georgetown, May 2015

Ingram, N. (2015) ‘Cruel Intentions: Why working-class kids can’t get working class jobs‘, paper presented at Fighting Inequality of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Working-Class Studies Association, Washington Georgetown, May 2015

Ingram, N. and Waller, R. (2015) ‘White young men in the city: the shaping of the future elite’ paper presented at the Journal of Youth Studies Biannual conference, University of Compenhagen, April 2015

Ingram, N. and Waller, R. (2015) “It just reeked of masculinity in there”: Shaping Elite Men through University Experiences and Employment Transitions’, paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, April 2015

Bradley, H. Abrahams, J. and Ingram, N. (2015) 'Narratives of Class Gender and Institutional Inequalities in Graduate Destinations' presented at the BSA Annual Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, April 2015

Bathmaker, A. M. and Ingram, N. (2014) ‘Not the place for a person like me? How social class shapes the higher education experience of ‘the degree generation’, paper presented at the BERA Annual Conference at the Institute of Education, London, September 2014

Abrahams, J. (2014) ‘Staying Classy: How perceptions of honour amongst the working class prevent them from using nepotism to get ahead’, paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, University of Leeds, April 2014

Bradley, H. & Waller, R. (2014) ‘Social Class, Resilience and the Struggle to Adjust to University Life: Comparing the experiences of working- and middle-class students’ BSA Annual Conference, University of Leeds, April 2014

Ingram, N. (2014) ‘Boundary drawing? Experimenting with art to understand identity’, invited plenary in ESRC interdisciplinary postgraduate conference-Inequality in Education: Innovation in Methods, University of Warwick, 12th November 2014

Waller, R. & Ingram, N. (2014) ‘Project future self’: The strategies used by privileged middle-class male students to secure elite graduate roles, Society for Research in Higher Education annual conference, Celtic Manor, Newport, December 2014

Symposium at the BSA Annual Conference 2013, London: Classed and gendered identities and behaviours in HE: Middle-class male performances, fractured femininities, and strategizing potential parents:

  • Waller, R. and Ingram, I. (2013) ‘Degrees of Masculinity: Higher education and the development and performance of middle-class gendered identities’
  • Bradley, H. and Abrahams, J. (2013) ‘Fractured Femininities: Female undergraduates’ aspirations’.
  • Beedell, (2013) Students’ Discourses on Career and Family: Unequal Egalitarianism Revisited’

Abrahams, J. (2013) ‘The Chameleon Self: Local students’ negotiations of a cleft habitus’, paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, London

Bathmaker, A. M. and Ingram, N. (2013) ‘Not a place for a person like me: on being middle-class at a post-1992 university in England’, paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, London

Bathmaker, A.M. (2013) ‘The right university or the right social background? Class, gender and social mobility through higher education’, aper presented at the Higher Education Academy Conference on Higher Education and Social Mobility in Manchester on 26-27 March 2013.

Waller, R. & Ingram, N. (2013) ‘Degrees of Masculinity:  Social class and gendered identities amongst male undergraduate students’ British Education Studies Association annual conference Swansea Metropolitan University June 2013

Waller, R. & Ingram, N. (2013) ‘Education and learning: Sociological perspectives conference University of Surrey, September 2013

Ingram, N. (2012) ‘Gaining an advantage through education?: Social class and student experiences of higher education at an elite and a non-elite university in one UK city’, paper presented at the How Class Works Conference, Stonybrook, New York.

Waller, R. (2012) 'Studying in austere times: University students' classed financial survival strategies', paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, University of Leeds.

Mellor, J., Bradley, H. and Bathmaker, A-M. (2012) ‘Unequal peers: the impact of class on student budget management at university’, paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, University of Leeds.

Waller, R., Mellor, J. and Hoare, A. (2012) ‘UK university students and paid work’, paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, University of Leeds.

Ingram, N., Abrahams, J. and Beedell, P. (2012) ‘Students’ Engagement in Extra-Curricular Activities: Constraints, Freedoms and Class Background’, paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, University of Leeds.

Abrahams, J. and Ingram, N. (2012) ‘There’s no place like home: Local university students’ perceptions of the benefits of living at home’, paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, University of Leeds.

Bradley, H. (2012) ‘Feeling classed and the feelings of class: perceptions of ‘fit’ and ‘misfit’ among first-year university students’, paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, University of Leeds.

Bradley, H. (2012) 'Keeping them in their place: Social mobility and the deconstruction and reconstruction of higher education', paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, University of Leeds.

Bathmaker, A-M., Ingram, N. and Waller, R. (2012) 'Higher Education, Social Class and the Mobilisation of Capitals'
Presented at:

  • The British Educational Studies Association (BESA) Conference in Hull, on 28-29 June 2012 (by Dr. Richard Waller)
  • The British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference in Manchester, UK, on 4-6 September 2012 (by Dr. Nicola Ingram)
  • The European Conference on Educational Research in Cadiz, Spain on 18-21 September 2012 (by Professor Ann-Marie Bathmaker)

Ingram, N. (2012) ‘Aspiration and realisation: the educational and career trajectories of working-class and middle class students in Bristol’, Key Note Lecture [invited], BSA PG Conference on social class and aspiration, London

Waller, R. & Ingram, N. (2012) ‘Degrees of Masculinity: Higher education and the performance of working class gendered identities’, BSA Youth Study Group Event: Young Masculinities: Challenges, Changes and Transitions, BSA London conference centre, July 2012

Bathmaker, A-M., Ingram, N. and Waller, R. (2011) ‘Constructions of class: defining students’ social class in the Paired Peers project’, paper presented at the BERA conference, Institute of Education, London, September 2011.

Bradley, H., Ingram, N. and Abrahams, J. (2011) 'Gateways to success? The influence of class on transitions into higher education’, paper presented at the BERA conference, Institute of Education, London, September 2011.

Waller, R. (2011)‘‘It’s the C word’: Class matters in higher education', paper presented at the BERA conference, Institute of Education, London, September 2011.

Seminars/ workshops

Ingram, N. (2015) ‘Employability and Graduate Destinations’, paper presented at Universities Association for Lifelong Learning seminar series for Widening Participation leaders, SRHE offices, London, 8th June 2015

Waller, R. (2015) ‘Higher Education, Social Class and the Mobilisation of Capitals’, Oxford Brookes University Academic Enhancement and Standards Committee 

Ingram, N. (2014) ‘The Degree Generation: students experiences of getting in, getting on and getting out’, invited paper presented at Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University seminar series on 4th June 2014

Ingram, N. and Waller, R. (2014) ‘Investments in the Future: Privileged middle-class male students’ strategies for securing elite graduate roles’, paper presented at BSA Education Study Group workshop, Making a Market in Higher Education: Changing landscape, continuing inequalities? Sheffield Hallam University, June 2014.

Waller, R. (2014) ‘Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals: Recognising and playing the game’, HEA Seminar at University of Surrey March 2014

Bathmaker, A.M. (2013) Narratives of student life: a gendered and classed experience. Paper presented at the University of Central Lancashire on 21 February 2013.

Waller, R. & Ingram, N. (2013), ‘Higher Education, Social Class and the Mobilisation of Capitals’,  BRILLE seminar UWE March 2013

Waller, R. (2013) ‘Higher Education, Social Class and the Mobilisation of Capitals’, BSA Teaching Group Regional Day Conference, Bristol, 2 March 2013

Waller, R. & Bradley, H. (2013) ‘Social class, resilience and the struggle to adjust to university life: Comparing the experiences of working- and middle-class students’ BRILLE seminar, UWE, November 2013

Bradley, H. (2013) 'A degree is not enough - undergraduate destinations in a precarious economic climate' UWE, BRILLE seminar November 2013

Bradley, H.  and Waller, R. (2012) ‘Social class, resilience and the struggle to adjust to university life: Comparing the experiences of working- and middle-class students’,
Presented at:

  • Social Science in the City seminar series, Bristol , November 2012. (Presented by Richard Waller and Harriet Bradley)
  • Centre for Analysis of Policy (CASP) Workshop: Young People's classed and gendered aspirations and employment transitions, University of Bath, (presented by Richard Waller)

Hoare, T., Ingram, N. and Mellor, J. (2010) 'The University's Widening Participation Research Cluster: whatever is it up to now?' presentation at the University of Bristol Human Geography seminar series