The geographies of UK university halls of residence: examining students' embodiment of social capital

Holton, Mark

doi:10.1080/14733285.2014.979134

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“…The phenomenon emerged prominently in the 1990s in the UK under the country's expansive higher education policies (Armstrong, Darrall, & Grove‐White, ; Kenyon, , ). Soaring demand for student accommodation outpaced the supply of student halls at universities (Holton, ). Family houses adjacent to campuses were converted into flats shared by students called houses of multiple occupancies (HMOs) (Allinson, ; Rugg, Rhodes, & Jones, , , ).…”

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Expanding the scope of studentification studies

Nakazawa

2017

Geography Compass

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The term “studentification” refers to multifaceted urban transformations resulting from increases in and concentrations of student populations. Notably, this concept has been investigated with frequent reference to gentrification studies from both spatial and temporal perspectives. In this regard, spatial perspectives focus on the common urban spatial processes that studentification and gentrification share, whereas temporal perspectives assume students as candidates to become gentrifiers. This essay reorganizes the literature consistently with these two perspectives and aims to extend the limits of studentification studies beyond the epistemological constraints of gentrification.

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Expanding the scope of studentification studies

Nakazawa

2017

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“…Since the introduction of the post-19921 university, various, and ongoing, higher education (HE) policy reforms have fuelled academic, political, media and anecdotal discussions of the trajectories of UK HE students, including their mobilities (Duke-Williams, 2009) and living arrangements (Holton, 2016), 'town' and 'gown' issues (Munro et al, 2009) and graduate employability (Mason O'Connor et al, 2011).…”

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Traditional or non-traditional students?: incorporating UK students’ living arrangements into decisions about going to university

Holton

2017

Journal of Further and Higher Education

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Since the introduction of the post-1992 university, various, and ongoing, higher education policy reforms have fuelled academic, political, media and anecdotal discussions of the trajectories of UK university students. An outcome of this has been the dualistic classification of students as being from either 'traditional' or 'nontraditional' backgrounds. An extensive corpus of literature has sought to critically discuss how students experience their transition into university, questioning specifically the notion that all students follow a linear transition through university.Moreover, there is far more complexity involved in the student experience than can be derived from just employing these monolithic terms. This research proposes incorporating students' residential circumstances into these debates to encourage more critical discussions of this complex demographic. Drawing upon the experiences of a sample of students from a UK 'Post-1992' university this research will develop a profile for each accommodation type to highlight the key characteristics of the 'type' of student most likely to belong to each group. In doing so this establishes a more detailed understanding of how a 'student' habitus might affect the mechanisms which are put in place to assist students in their transitions into and through university. Moreover this will identify links between HE aspirations and the types of accommodation students come to reside in. This will be achieved by examining the different ways in which students identify their prior knowledge of university life and the role of others in informing choices; the desire to be included in traditional 'student experiences' and how the propinquity of university to home impacts upon their decisions.

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“…Among other things, this excludes student housing from consideration. Yet, in some countries, and certainly the UK, where this study was conducted, living away from home with people who are initially strangers remains for many -and this view extends beyond students -an important, perhaps defining, aspect of being a university student (Silver and Silver, 1997;Stone, 2011).Moreover, the ontological, emotional and material significance of home is widely acknowledged (Blunt, 2005;Andersson, Sadgrove & Valentine , 2012;Holton, 2016a) .…”

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Student housing as a learning space

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Thomas

2018

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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This paper is an initial exploration of the significance of students' accommodation as spaces for learning. In interviews, students of Geography and Planning discuss the spatiality of studying, and how their student housing features in this. The diversity of student living and studying emerges clearly. Yet there are some commonalities, notably the significance of the materiality of accommodation as a factor that shapes and is in turn shaped by students' agency. Their accounts underline the ways they seek to shape key aspects of their lives, and the reflective, learning, approach many take to this task. The paper concludes by drawing out implications for university tutors and lecturers. It also suggests avenues for further research.

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The geographies of UK university halls of residence: examining students' embodiment of social capital

Abstract: The geographies of UK University halls of residence: examining students' embodiment of social capital.

Cited by 37 publications

References 47 publications

Expanding the scope of studentification studies

Expanding the scope of studentification studies

Traditional or non-traditional students?: incorporating UK students’ living arrangements into decisions about going to university

Student housing as a learning space

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