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Dr Rille Raaper's Outputs (34)

Negotiating authenticity: experiences of student influencers on social media (2024)
Journal Article
Raaper, R., Hardey, M., Tiidenberg, K., & Aad, S. (online). Negotiating authenticity: experiences of student influencers on social media. Journal of Youth Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2024.2419085

Research has shown that contemporary youth face a variety of challenges, ranging from social belonging to striving towards perfection in body image and personal achievements in all areas of life. Student life is expected to add further complexities,... Read More about Negotiating authenticity: experiences of student influencers on social media.

#Studytalk in marketised higher education: Student influencers as emerging support providers (2024)
Journal Article
Raaper, R., Hardey, M., & Aad, S. (online). #Studytalk in marketised higher education: Student influencers as emerging support providers. Studies in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2385614

Within the marketised higher education context, where traditional support systems are strained, student influencers on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube have emerged as unexpected providers of academic and emotional support for their peer... Read More about #Studytalk in marketised higher education: Student influencers as emerging support providers.

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.

COVID-19: A Neoliberal Nirvana? (2022)
Journal Article
Watermeyer, R., Raaper, R., & Borras Batalla, M. (2022). COVID-19: A Neoliberal Nirvana?. Critical Criminology, 30(3), 509-526. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-022-09652-x

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the operation of universities around the world. A transition to online platforms and remote forms of working as a consequence of national lockdown measures and campus closures has produced new labour chal... Read More about COVID-19: A Neoliberal Nirvana?.

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.

The changing role of students in British higher education governance: Partners, consumers and digital users (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Raaper, R., & Komljenovic, J. The changing role of students in British higher education governance: Partners, consumers and digital users

This working paper discusses the changing role of students in British higher education governance over the three societal periods: the welfare state, the market society and the digital economy. Within the past three decades, the student has shifted f... Read More about The changing role of students in British higher education governance: Partners, consumers and digital users.

Student support as social network: Exploring non-traditional student experiences of academic and wellbeing support during the Covid-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Raaper, R., Brown, C., & Llewellyn, A. (2022). Student support as social network: Exploring non-traditional student experiences of academic and wellbeing support during the Covid-19 pandemic. Educational Review, 74(3), 402-421. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1965960

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a global crisis in higher education, affecting all aspects of university work and practices. This article focuses on student experiences in particular by problematising academic and wellbeing support available to non-... Read More about Student support as social network: Exploring non-traditional student experiences of academic and wellbeing support during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Doctoral students navigating the borderlands of academic teaching in an era of precarity (2021)
Journal Article
Rao, N., Hosein, A., & Raaper, R. (2021). Doctoral students navigating the borderlands of academic teaching in an era of precarity. Teaching in Higher Education, 26(3), 454-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2021.1892058

Neoliberalisation of academia has led to an increasing recruitment of doctoral students in teaching roles. Whilst there is evidence of doctoral students being engaged in teaching roles and the reasons for doing so, there is a pressing need to underst... Read More about Doctoral students navigating the borderlands of academic teaching in an era of precarity.

Student Politics: Resistance, Refusal and Representation (2020)
Book Chapter
Raaper, R., & Burke, C. (2020). Student Politics: Resistance, Refusal and Representation. In M. Murphy, C. Burke, C. Costa, & R. Raaper (Eds.), Social theory and the politics of higher education. Critical perspectives on institutional research (187-197). Bloomsbury Academic

Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education brings together an international group of scholars who shine a theoretical light on the politics of academic life and higher education. The book covers three key areas: 1) Institutional governance, w... Read More about Student Politics: Resistance, Refusal and Representation.

Students as ‘Animal Laborans’? Tracing Student Politics in a Marketised Higher Education Setting (2020)
Journal Article
Raaper, R. (2021). Students as ‘Animal Laborans’? Tracing Student Politics in a Marketised Higher Education Setting. Sociological Research Online, 26(1), 130-146. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780420952810

This article examines the widespread policy discourses that have constructed the notion of student as consumer in English higher education, and it questions the implications of such fabrications on students’ political engagement. In particular, it ex... Read More about Students as ‘Animal Laborans’? Tracing Student Politics in a Marketised Higher Education Setting.