Institute for Education Policy Research

Students' Aspirations, Self-Efficacy and Lifelong Learning

Publications

• Casey, L., Davies, P., Kalambouka, A., Nelson, N. and Boyle, B. (2006) 'The Influence of Schooling on the Aspirations of Young People with Special Educational Needs', British Educational Research Journal 32, 2: 273-289.
• Cooper, M., Quinn, J. and Thomas, L. (2001) Access to Higher Education: the Unfinished Business. An evaluation for the millennium, Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books.
• Cooper, M., Quinn, J. and Thomas, L. (2002) Collaboration to Widen Participation, Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books.
• Cooper, M., Quinn, J. and Thomas, E. (2003) Improving Completion Rates Among Disadvantaged Students, Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books.
• Cooper, M. and Thomas, L. (2000) Changing the Culture of the Campus: Towards an inclusive higher education, Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books.
• Hoyler, M, Hexter, H. and Casey, L. (2002) 'The Role of Community Collages in Promoting Access to Higher Education for Low Income Students: the University of California at Los Angles transfer program' in Thomas, E, Cooper, M and Quinn, J (eds) Collaboration to Widening Participation, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books.
• Jones, R. and Thomas, E. (2001) 'Not Just Passing Through: making retention work for present and future learners', Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning 3, 2: 2-4.
• Quinn, J. (2002) Powerful Subjects: Are Women Really Taking Over the University?, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books.
• Quinn, J. (2003) 'The Dynamics of the Protected Space: spatial concepts and women students', British Journal of Sociology of Education 24:4.
• Quinn, J., Slack, K., Thomas, L. and Williams, S. (2001) Widening Participation: Evaluation of the collaboration between higher education institutions and further education colleges to increase participation in higher education, Bristol: HEFCE.
• Quinn, J., Thomas, L., Slack, K., Casey, L., Thexton, W. and Noble, J. (2006) 'Lifting the Hood: Lifelong learning and young white masculinities', British Educational Research Journal 32, 5: 735-750.
• Quinn, J., Thomas, L., Slack, K., Vigurs, K. and Flynn, N. (2005) 'Learners on their own terms? Learning brokerage, aminstream transformation nad social exclusion', Journal of Access Policy and Practice 3, 1: 21-43.
• Slack, K. (2003) 'Whose aspirations are they anyway?', International Journal of Inclusive Education 7, 4: 325-335.
• Slack, K. (2004) 'Collaboration with the community to widen participation: "Partners" without power or absent "friends", Higher Education Quarterly 58, 2/3: 136-150.
• Slack, K. and Thomas, L. (2003) 'Developing an evaluation framework: Assessing the contribution of community-based and work-based approaches to lifelong learning amongst educationally marginalised adults', Research in Post-compulsory Education 8, 1: 19-38.
• Slack, K. and Tierney, S. (2005) 'Learning Journeys: the experience of students working towards a Foundation Degree', Journal of Vocational Education and Training 57, 3: 375-388.
• Thomas, E. (2001) 'Power, Assumptions and Prescriptions: A critique of widening participation policy-making', Higher Education Policy 14, 4: 361-376.
• Thomas, E. (2001) Widening Participation in Post-compulsory Education, London: Continuum.
• Thomas, L. (2002) 'Collaboration Within and Between HEIs in England; A Review of Policy and Practice' in Thomas, E., Cooper, M. and Quinn, J. (eds) Collaboration To Widen Participationin Higher Education, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books.
• Thomas, E. (2002) 'Student Retention in Higher Education: The role of institutional habitus', Journal of Education Policy 17, 4: 423-432.
• Thomas, E. and Cooper, M. (2001) Access to Higher Education: the unfinished business, Stoke-on-Trent: Institute for Access Studies.
• Thomas, L., Cooper, M. and Quinn, J. (2002) Collaboration to Widen Participation in Higher Education, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books.
• Thomas, E., Cooper, M., and Quinn, J. (2003) Retaining Under-represented Groups in Higher Education, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books.
• Thomas, E. and Jones, R. (2003) 'Examining Bourdieu's concepts of capital in relation to student retention. An expanded role for social capital' in Saunders, D., Payne, R., Jones, H., Mason, A. and Storan, J. (eds) Learning Transformations: The proceedings of the FACE Conference 2003.
• Thomas, L. and Yorke, M. (2003) 'Improving the retention of students from lower socio-economic groups', Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 25, 1: 63-74.