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Competing conceptions of fair admission and their implications for supporting students to fulfil their potential at university (2022)
Journal Article
Boliver, V., & Powell, M. (2023). Competing conceptions of fair admission and their implications for supporting students to fulfil their potential at university. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 27(1), 8-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2022.2063429

This paper explores how fairness was conceptualised by those responsible for admission to highly selective undergraduate courses at 17 universities in England. Fairness was conceptualised principally with reference to the traditional meritocratic equ... Read More about Competing conceptions of fair admission and their implications for supporting students to fulfil their potential at university.

The use of access thresholds to widen participation at Scottish universities (2020)
Journal Article
Boliver, V., Gorard, S., Powell, M., & Moreira, T. (2020). The use of access thresholds to widen participation at Scottish universities. Scottish Affairs, 29(1), 82-97. https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0307

The Scottish Government has set ambitious targets for widening access to full-time undergraduate degree programmes. Meeting these targets will be a real challenge, not least because young people from socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts continue... Read More about The use of access thresholds to widen participation at Scottish universities.

Organisational Identity as a Barrier to Widening Access in Scottish Universities (2018)
Journal Article
Boliver, V., Powell, M., & Moreira, T. (2018). Organisational Identity as a Barrier to Widening Access in Scottish Universities. Social Sciences, 7(9), Article 151. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci7090151

Widening access policy has historically focused on tackling the socioeconomic barriers to university access faced by prospective students from under-represented groups, but increasingly policy makers are seeking to also address the barriers to wider... Read More about Organisational Identity as a Barrier to Widening Access in Scottish Universities.

Admissions in Context: The use of contextual information by leading universities (2017)
Report
Boliver, V., Crawford, C., Powell, M., & Craige, W. (2017). Admissions in Context: The use of contextual information by leading universities. [No known commissioning body]

While the university access gap between disadvantaged students and their more advantaged peers has narrowed somewhat in recent years, the gap at the most selective universities remains stubbornly wide. Contextualised admissions – taking into account... Read More about Admissions in Context: The use of contextual information by leading universities.

Understanding Learning in Senior Public Relations Practices: from boundary spanning to boundary dwelling (2016)
Journal Article
Powell, M., & Pieczka, M. (2016). Understanding Learning in Senior Public Relations Practices: from boundary spanning to boundary dwelling. Journal of Communication Management, 20(4), 312-327. https://doi.org/10.1108/jcom-11-2015-0093

Purpose Over the last 50 years the social legitimacy of public relations has improved by standardising and monitoring the education and training of its practitioners. While successful in developing a professional development trajectory from novice to... Read More about Understanding Learning in Senior Public Relations Practices: from boundary spanning to boundary dwelling.