Outputs (2)

Evaluating Contextual Offer Making at Durham University (2025)
Journal Article
Boliver, V., & Jones, K. (2025). Evaluating Contextual Offer Making at Durham University. Higher Education Quarterly, 79(2), Article e70025. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.70025

In common with many other higher tariff universities in the United Kingdom, Durham University uses contextual data about the socio‐economic circumstances of applicants to inform decisions about whom to admit to its undergraduate degree programmes. Th... Read More about Evaluating Contextual Offer Making at Durham University.

Inequalities in students’ sense of social, cultural and economic belonging at a highly selective UK university (2025)
Journal Article
Boliver, V., Hampshire, K., Lambell, A., Lewis, A., & Marley, C. (in press). Inequalities in students’ sense of social, cultural and economic belonging at a highly selective UK university. European Educational Research Journal,

This paper reports on a survey and follow-up focus groups with students attending Durham University, a highly academically selective and socially ‘elite’ university in the North East of England. Survey data analysis identified three distinctive compo... Read More about Inequalities in students’ sense of social, cultural and economic belonging at a highly selective UK university.