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Student consumers and value for money in higher education with Kate Wicklow
Manage episode 327081077 series 2929207
Kate is a doctoral researcher on the programme PhD in Higher Education: Research, Evaluation and Enhancement at Lancaster University.
In this episode, Kate presents her research exploring students' perceptions of value for money in English Universities. Using Callon’s notion of performativity, she is investigating the extent to which students are cognizant of the market dynamics of English HE including the students as consumers narrative and how the national policies of value for money such as the TEF and LEO impact on their perceptions of value. Her study focuses on those who are first in their family to go to university as a distinctive student group with different expectations, motivations, and experiences to more traditional university students.
Kate can be contacted about her research at kate.wicklow@gmail.com Talking to her is a doctoral researcher Olga Rotar from CHERE@LU.
28 episodes
Manage episode 327081077 series 2929207
Kate is a doctoral researcher on the programme PhD in Higher Education: Research, Evaluation and Enhancement at Lancaster University.
In this episode, Kate presents her research exploring students' perceptions of value for money in English Universities. Using Callon’s notion of performativity, she is investigating the extent to which students are cognizant of the market dynamics of English HE including the students as consumers narrative and how the national policies of value for money such as the TEF and LEO impact on their perceptions of value. Her study focuses on those who are first in their family to go to university as a distinctive student group with different expectations, motivations, and experiences to more traditional university students.
Kate can be contacted about her research at kate.wicklow@gmail.com Talking to her is a doctoral researcher Olga Rotar from CHERE@LU.
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