Student Carers in Higher Education

This timely volume explores the ways that university institutions affect the experiences of student carers and how student carers negotiate the (often conflicting) demands of care and academic work.

Autorentext

Genine Hook is Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New England, Australia.

Marie-Pierre Moreau is Professor of Education and Education Research Lead at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

Rachel Brooks is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK.

Inhalt

List of illustrations. Editors. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. 1.Introduction. 2. Affective equality in higher education: Resisting the culture of carelessness. 3. Negotiating embodied aspirations: Exploring the emotional labour of higher education persistence for female caregivers. 4. Belonging, space and the marginalisation of university childcare. 5. Anything but 'carelessness': Employed student-mothers' experiences of low-status vocational higher education. 6. 'A space for me, but what about my family?': The experiences of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller student carers in UK higher education. 7. Resisting colonisation: Indigenous student-parents' experiences of higher education. 8. How the 'caring chain' impacts the decision to study abroad, overseas experiences and career plan: A narrative analysis about a Chinese single mother. 9. Doctoral carers: Tracing contradictory discourses and identifying possibilities for a more care-full doctoral education. 10. Fragmented perceptions of institutional support for food-insecure student-parents. 11. 'It's not only me doing things for me': Conference participation for doctoral students with caring responsibilities. 12. Conclusion. Index.