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SUMMARY:Bristol Conversations in Education - ‘All islands have a boundary
 ’: Experiences of higher education on small islands in and around the UK
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the School of Education's Bristol Conver
 sations in Education research seminar series. These seminars are free and 
 open to the public.\nHosted by the Education in Small States Research Gro
 up (ESSRG) and the Centre for Comparative and International Research in 
 Education (CIRE)\nSpeaker: Holly Henderson (Assistant Professor of Educa
 tion\, University of Nottingham)\nHow do higher education students from is
 lands such as the Channel Islands\, the Isle of Man\, the Isle of Wight an
 d the Scottish islands choose whether to study for a degree on or off the 
 island\, and what are their experiences once they have made this choice? T
 his paper takes a social geographies perspective to exploring these educat
 ional questions\, drawing on a multi-sited case study of higher education 
 institutions on small islands with relationships to the UK. The concept of
  the ‘spatial story’ (de Certeau\, 1984) is used to theorise the place
  of the island in tutor and student narratives\, as well as to think throu
 gh the ways that national and international policy-making in higher educat
 ion is interpreted and lived in these distinct island contexts.\nWorking w
 ith both sociologies and geographies of post-compulsory education\, this p
 aper explores spatial educational inequalities through a focus on access t
 o higher education on small island locations in and around the UK. The pap
 er takes these islands as instances of local higher education provision\, 
 bringing a unique perspective to international discussions of student mobi
 lities (Finn and Holton\, 2019)\, rural and remote education (Corbett\, 20
 07)\, and the relationship between place and education. The paper presents
  findings from a multi-sited case study that included documentary analysis
 \, ethnographic observation and interviews with staff and students at thre
 e island colleges. Using the concept of the spatial story (de Certeau\, 19
 84) within a sociological geographies framework to theorise educational su
 bjectivity\, the paper also locates island higher education within island-
 specific and UK-wide policy contexts. Three key findings are presented. Th
 e first is drawn from documentary analysis\, and highlights the policy con
 flict between local priorities and global relevance in developing higher e
 ducation provision on islands. The second focuses on student and staff int
 erviews\, demonstrating the considerable\, largely unnoticed material cons
 traints facing students on islands with complex relationships to the highe
 r education finance systems of the UK mainland. Finally\, a further narrat
 ive exploration of student interview data shows how the context of the isl
 and exaggerates the binary distinctions of staying and going\, safety and 
 risk that structure higher education.\nDr Holly Henderson is Assistant Pr
 ofessor of Education at the University of Nottingham. Her research and tea
 ching focus broadly on sociological issues of inequality in education. In 
 particular\, she is interested in access to and experiences of post-compul
 sory and higher education. Her research is theoretically informed by socia
 l geographies\, which enable analysis of the ways in which place\, space a
 nd mobilities structure educational possibility. She is also interested in
  narrative and its relationship to subjectivity. She is currently working 
 on an SRHE-funded project looking at the experiences of higher education s
 tudents on islands in and around the UK. \nREGISTER FOR THIS EVENT\n \n\
 nContact information\ned-events@bristol.ac.uk\n
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