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Introduction (2023)
Book Chapter
Conner, J., Raaper, R., Guzman-Valenzuela, C., & Gauthier, L. (2023). Introduction. In J. Conner, R. Raaper, C. Guzmán-Valenzuela, & L. Gauthier (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education (1-6). London: Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350342484-007

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education (2023)
Book
Conner, J., Raaper, R., Guzmán-Valenzuela, C., & Gauthier, L. (Eds.). (2023). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education. London: Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350342484

This handbook brings together scholarship from various subfields, disciplinary traditions, and geographic and geopolitical contexts to understand how student voice is operating in different higher education dimensions and contexts around the world. T... Read More about The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education.

The making of the activist disabled subject: disability and political activism in English higher education (2023)
Journal Article
Peruzzo, F., & Raaper, R. (2024). The making of the activist disabled subject: disability and political activism in English higher education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 45(2), 173-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2023.2271406

Drawing on a Foucauldian theorisation and an in-depth study with eight disabled student activists in England, this paper explores how persistent marginalisation and ableism in higher education has triggered a wave of activism among disabled students,... Read More about The making of the activist disabled subject: disability and political activism in English higher education.

Handbook on Academic Freedom (2022)
Book
Watermeyer, R., Raaper, R., & Olssen, M. (Eds.). (2022). Handbook on Academic Freedom. Edward Elgar Publishing

Disabled students doing activism: Borrowing from and trespassing neoliberal reason in English higher education (2022)
Journal Article
Raaper, R., Peruzzo, F., & Westander, M. (2023). Disabled students doing activism: Borrowing from and trespassing neoliberal reason in English higher education. Power and Education, 15(2), 132–149. https://doi.org/10.1177/17577438221117772

The neoliberal rationale in English higher education promotes institutional and individual competition for economic success, often at the cost of equity and universalism. Within such context, there is a tendency to formalise student voice, for exampl... Read More about Disabled students doing activism: Borrowing from and trespassing neoliberal reason in English higher education.

Physical Separation, Social Distance, and Kinship Sentiments: An Exploration of Rural Parent–Teacher Relations in China (2022)
Journal Article
Xu, J., & Raaper, R. (2022). Physical Separation, Social Distance, and Kinship Sentiments: An Exploration of Rural Parent–Teacher Relations in China. Rural Sociology, 87(3), 1088-1110. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12441

Research from various national contexts has shown that less privileged parents face various barriers when developing relationships with teachers compared to their more privileged counterparts. Chinese rural citizens have been disadvantaged within the... Read More about Physical Separation, Social Distance, and Kinship Sentiments: An Exploration of Rural Parent–Teacher Relations in China.