Steven Jones
United Kingdom
The University of Manchester
I have two distinct (but overlapping) strands to my research: Education and Linguistics.My current Education project is called Towards Equitable Participation: Access and Inclusion in Higher Education. The project examines the views held by young people from disadvantaged backgrounds about University, and considers how recent policy changes, such as increased tuition fees, are interpreted by non-traditional applicants. One element of this project has involved examining a corpus of UCAS personal statements to find out how they vary according to the school type of the applicant. I’m also interested in the relevance of Work Experience in the HE admissions process, and am currently conducting research in collaboration with the Sutton Trust and the government-funded Employers and Education Taskforce.
