The implications? As contextual admissions become standard across the sector, understanding their multi-faceted influence on the admissions pipeline is crucial for impactful #WideningParticipation 6/7
21.01.2025 11:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We theorise that contextual offers act as an uncertainty-reduction mechanism, making highly competitive courses feel like a 'safer bet' for high-attaining students from under-represented backgrounds 5/7
21.01.2025 11:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Key finding #2: While the policy successfully enabled enrolment for a small # of students who missed the standard offer, it appeared to have greater effects on encouraging students from under-represented backgrounds to firmly accept their offer of a place (1.45x) 4/7
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Key finding #1: Students with contextual offers were 1.58x more likely to enrol than similar peers with standard offers. But the impact goes beyond just grades... 3/7
21.01.2025 11:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Using mixed-methods contribution analysis with data from
LSE, we investigated how contextual offer policies affect enrolment patterns & student decision-making in competitive university admissions 2/7
21.01.2025 11:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Interesting stats: 68% of young people want to go to university. Just 8% of grads regret going to uni whereas 43% of non-grads aged 18-24 wish they'd gone to university #AcademicSky
20.01.2025 17:24 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yes! It feels like it reflects a pre-internet time where you’d be flipping through a physical journal. I’d love to see it binned.
20.01.2025 11:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Why is UK HE in crisis, and (how) can we fix it?, Monday 12 May, 12:30pm - Lancaster University
Four experts from different disciplines will provide their overview of why (or if) UK higher education is in a period crisis and what needs to change.
Online CHERE event for the diary, 12th of May:
Why is UK HE in crisis, and (how) can we fix it?
Speakers include Kalpana Shankar (UCD), Susan Robertson (Cambridge), and @ronaldhartz.bsky.social (TU Ilmenau).
This is a public event; details below, do share etc
www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
15.01.2025 18:50 — 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
I keep meaning to buy a print of the scene where they’re walking to the cafe in the dark; it must be the most beautiful illustration I’ve come across in a children’s book
20.12.2024 15:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’ve never heard of this, what a great policy. I feel like a rarely see examples of initiatives structurally addressing gender pay gaps for women rather than e.g. a workshop on how to not have imposter syndrome.
20.12.2024 08:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
hi Bluesky sociologists - twice a year I make So Fi Zine, an indie publication for sociological fiction, poetry and visual art.
The zine has had a big life since 2017 thanks mostly to twitter and I am hoping this place can now offer it a new reach.
Please share if this is your jam 🙏✨ sofizine.com
20.12.2024 03:04 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
@edudetective.bsky.social 👋 could I be added to your handy education & inequalities research starter pack please?
18.12.2024 09:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@dralistruthers.bsky.social could I be added to your outreach & WP starter pack please?
18.12.2024 09:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Are there any sociology of education starter packs out there? #SociologySky #AcademicSky
17.12.2024 08:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
TWO opportunities to contribute to special issues that I’d want to read cover to cover. Deadlines end Jan & end Feb. 2nd call esp. of interest to #HigherEd researchers & pracademics.
17.12.2024 08:01 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
EXTENDED ABSTRACT DEADLINE - 20th January 2025.
16.12.2024 16:02 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
🔊 Call for papers!
Join us for the @britsoci.bsky.social Presidential Event, in collaboration with the BSA Education Study Group.
⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2025
💬 Theme: The Future of the Sociology of Education
📅 Date: 6 June 2025
📍 Place: BSA Meeting Room, London
🔗 britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
05.12.2024 09:28 — 👍 16 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
Microsoft Forms
Are you neurodivergent?
Are you REALLY interested in stuff?
Would you like a friendly chat these things on season 2 of the
Ruling Passions podcast?
More info / sign up on the form below. THANKS!
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#Neurodivergent #rulingpassions #Podcast
12.12.2024 12:01 — 👍 25 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 3
Can anyone recommend a good text to voice AI which can handle scientific papers relatively well?? 🧪 It's been a while since #phdchat but is there anyone out there...?
11.12.2024 20:55 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0
This Pathfinder Narratives series is SO interesting if (like me) you’re nosey about the varied career routes people went on post-PhD. #PhDSky
theauditorium.blog/category/pat...
11.12.2024 21:01 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Book - A body of writing 1990-1999 by Bronwyn Davies.
Some excellent train reading on the way down to Sheffield today. Davies’ has a way of making challenging poststructuralist theory readable & usable. #sociology #AcademicSky #FeministResearch
11.12.2024 08:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stack of copies of the academic journal Sociology from 2021 and 2022
Hey #AcademicSky #PhDSky could you use one or more of these hard copies of the @britsoci.bsky.social #Sociology journal? Maybe you have a paper in one?! I'm having a clear out & happy to mail for postage costs.
10.12.2024 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks for putting this together! I've been at a bit of a loss for how to find people & start building a community on here. Could I be added please?
10.12.2024 11:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
ICYMI: Recently I blogged about the highs and lows of being in the 'difficult middle' of doctoral study, with a few words of advice for anyone thinking of doing a PhD.
www.jessbensonegglenton.com/2023/10/phd-...
18.12.2023 10:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Senior Policy & Research Officer at AMOSSHE, the Student Services Organisation. PhD in commuter student experiences in the UK. Views my own.
#Safety and #wellbeing advocate and creator of the #PEEPSS Model.
Social Psychologist. #Methodologist. Sometime #AgonyAunt. Advice giving as praxis. Critical #MentalHealth. Lives by the sea.
Come for a #ResearchTip, maybe ask a question, stay for cat pics
▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Head of Research and Insight at Isos Partnership ⦿ public sector policy and delivery ⦿ education and skills ⦿ area-based inequalities ⦿ research and evaluation
Exec Director @ukevaluation.bsky.social Evidence based decision-making and action. V pro #NetZero and #renewables. Owned by my Lurchers. Love Cymru, where I'm lucky to live. Pessimistic about the world, but hoping hope really does spring eternal!
We're the membership body for #evaluation in the UK. Championing professional development & the vital role evaluation plays in society to save & changes lives.
professor, evaluator, data cleaning diva, higher education assessment consultant, quantitative methodologist, survey researcher, never afraid to speak my mind.
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply.
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
Working with third sector organisations and funders so that they can measure and explain their impact.
(Reposts are not endorsement).
🌀 https://evaluationsupportscotland.org.uk/
Leading research centre in long-term (social) care, mental health, developmental disability & other health issues to inform & influence global policy & practice.
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com)
Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024).
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
The NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Evaluation and Behavioural Science is a partnership between Bristol University and UKHSA, funded by NIHR.
Ipsos is one of the largest market research companies operating in 90 markets with more than 20,000 research professionals.
Visit our website: https://www.ipsos.com/en
Public policy consultant | Evaluation and Value for Investment at https://juliankingnz.substack.com
Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Manchester and host of New Books in Critical Theory. Currently on secondment to DCMS, also at Creative PEC and the Whats On Project too
We Are IOE: world leaders for research and teaching in education, culture, psychology, and social science. We create lasting and evolving change. We are a faculty of University College London (@ucl.ac.uk).
ucl.ac.uk/ioe
#WeAreIOE
Research and Policy Manager at the Sutton Trust; former secondary teacher (Social Sciences) and university lecturer (anthropology/sociology)
We transform the lives of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds by ensuring they get the right support to succeed in school, in work and in life.
https://www.impetus.org.uk/
Making Brighton (and beyond) the best place to get an education for the working class and lower income families.
The School Meals Service: Past, Present, and Future?
https://www.theschoolmealsproject.co.uk/
An ESRC-funded research project exploring the history, present and future of the UK School Meals Service #histed #histchild #foodhist
