Geographic and Social Mobility of UK Higher Education Students

英国高等教育学生的地理和社会流动性

• 批准号: ES/N002121/1
• 负责人: Michael Donnelly
• 金额: $ 28.55万
• 依托单位: University of Bath
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN002121%2F1
• 关键词: Geographic; Social; Mobility; UK; Higher

The creation of a fairer society through social mobility is high on the political agenda in the UK. It is often assumed that widening participation in higher education (HE), through various policies and initiatives, will equate to a fairer and more socially mobile society. Yet, while more disadvantaged groups are now progressing to HE, social mobility remains weak, suggesting that this is an over-simplified picture of the ways in which social inequalities are (re)produced in countries like the UK. The geographical (im)mobility of young people at this key transition point is rarely alluded to here, in terms of its significance in shaping social (im)mobility. In spatially diverse countries like the UK, access to universities, key labour markets, social networks, and other valuable resources often necessitate some degree of geographical mobility. In addressing social inequalities in wider society, it is therefore crucial to understand the nature of student flows across diverse parts of the UK, including the rationales different young people have for their (im)mobility to and from different places. There is already some evidence to suggest that the costs of HE study can deter the most disadvantaged young people from moving away for their studies, but what other place-based factors, including the cultural, social, and economic characteristics of localities might be important in shaping student (im)mobility? This interdisciplinary project will undertake an innovative and far-reaching programme of policy relevant research addressing the mobility patterns of UK HE students. The value of this research has been endorsed by all four UK HE Funding Councils, the UK Government's Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (Chaired by Rt. Hon. Alan Milburn), The Sutton Trust, and Universities UK. These organisations are members of the project stakeholder group and will be closely involved in the research and dissemination programme, ensuring that the research addresses areas of policy relevance and reaches a wide audience. This novel research will uncover, for the first time, the nature of student flows within and across the four countries of the UK, together with rich and in-depth understandings about how they are shaped. Taking into account the socially, economically, politically and culturally diverse nature of UK society, the project will seek to understand the placed nature of educational decision making in particular. This unique work is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on, and contributing to, the academic disciplines of geography, education, and sociology. The research is mixed methods and organised around two distinct but sequential phases, which include large scale quantitative analysis of UK-wide student records data (phase 1) that will frame the collection of new qualitative data (phase 2). Phase 1 will involve advanced spatial analysis to examine student flows at country, region, and locality levels, producing innovative graphics displaying these spatial movements in visual form. This analysis will explore patterns and relationships between student movements and social as well as spatial characteristics. In the second phase, qualitative research will take place in 10 purposefully selected case study schools across the UK, selected on the basis of criteria developed from the quantitative analysis. To explore the sorts of factors shaping young people's mobility patterns, data collection will involve interviews with young people, two members of their social network, as well as observation of their school contexts. These rich qualitative data will dig beneath the surface of the quantitative patterns, capturing how young people's subjective experiences of space and their own geographical imaginaries impact on their geographic (im)mobility. It will explore how these relationships to place and mobility intentions are constructed and influenced by their individual biographies, social network and school.

通过社会流动创造一个更公平的社会是联合王国政治议程上的优先事项。人们通常认为，通过各种政策和举措扩大高等教育的参与，将等同于一个更公平和更具社会移动的社会。然而，虽然更多的弱势群体现在正在向高等教育迈进，但社会流动性仍然很弱，这表明这是对英国等国家社会不平等（重新）产生方式的过度简化。在这个关键的过渡点上，青年人的地域流动性（非流动性）在这里很少被提及，因为它对塑造社会流动性（非流动性）具有重要意义。在像英国这样的空间多样化国家，进入大学、关键劳动力市场、社交网络和其他宝贵资源往往需要一定程度的地理流动性。因此，在解决更广泛的社会中的社会不平等问题时，了解英国不同地区学生流动的性质至关重要，包括不同年轻人往返不同地方的理由。已经有一些证据表明，高等教育学习的成本可以阻止最弱势的年轻人离开他们的研究，但其他基于地方的因素，包括文化，社会和经济特点的地方可能是重要的塑造学生（非）流动性？这个跨学科项目将开展一项创新和深远的政策相关研究计划，解决英国高等教育学生的流动模式。这项研究的价值得到了所有四个英国高等教育资助委员会，英国政府的社会流动和儿童贫困委员会（由艾伦米尔本主持），萨顿信托基金和英国大学的认可。这些组织是项目利益相关者小组的成员，将密切参与研究和传播计划，确保研究涉及与政策相关的领域，并接触到广泛的受众。这项新颖的研究将首次揭示英国四个国家内部和之间学生流动的性质，以及对他们如何形成的丰富而深入的理解。考虑到英国社会的社会，经济，政治和文化多样性的性质，该项目将寻求了解教育决策，特别是放置的性质。这项独特的工作是跨学科的性质，借鉴，并有助于地理，教育和社会学的学科。该研究采用混合方法，围绕两个不同但连续的阶段组织，其中包括对英国范围内的学生记录数据进行大规模定量分析（第一阶段），这将构成新定性数据收集的框架（第二阶段）。第一阶段将涉及先进的空间分析，以检查学生在国家，地区和地方层面的流动，产生创新的图形显示这些视觉形式的空间运动。这种分析将探讨学生运动和社会以及空间特征之间的模式和关系。在第二阶段，定性研究将在英国各地有目的地选择的10所案例研究学校中进行，这些学校是根据定量分析制定的标准进行选择的。为了探索影响青年流动模式的各种因素，数据收集将包括与青年人、其社会网络的两名成员进行访谈，以及观察他们的学校环境。这些丰富的定性数据将挖掘定量模式的表面之下，捕捉年轻人对空间的主观体验和他们自己的地理空间对他们的地理（非）流动性的影响。它将探讨这些关系的地方和流动性的意图是如何构建和影响他们的个人传记，社会网络和学校。

项目成果

Mapping the relational construction of people and places

• DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672284
• 发表时间: 2019-10-19
• 期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Donnelly, Michael;Gamsu, Sol;Whewall, Sam
• 通讯作者: Whewall, Sam

Spatial structures of student mobility: Social, economic and ethnic 'geometries of power'

学生流动的空间结构：社会、经济和种族“权力几何”

• DOI: 10.1002/psp.2293
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Population, Space and Place
• 作者: Donnelly M

A 'home-international' comparative analysis of widening participation in UK higher education

英国高等教育扩大参与度的“国内与国际”比较分析

• DOI: 10.1007/s10734-018-0260-3
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Higher Education
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Donnelly M

Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure

口音与空间化阶级结构的表现

• DOI: 10.1177/00380261221076188
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: The Sociological Review
• 作者: Donnelly M

A relational construction of social class and ethnicity: a new 'mapping tool'

社会阶层和种族的关系构建：一种新的“绘图工具”

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Donnelly M