Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data

Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data

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Higher Education and Civil Society

Overview This project explored the relationships between participation in higher education and engagement in civil society, especially at the local level. Do university graduates play a distinctive role in the institutions of civil society? More specifically, it examined the extent to which the institutional shift from an elite to a mass system of higher education has…

Research Team: Ceryn Evans (Cardiff University), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Gareth Rees (Cardiff University), Stuart Fox (Brunel University London)
Impact and Effectiveness of Widening Access to Higher Education

The overall aim of the proposed research was to demonstrate the effectiveness of the secondary analysis of administrative data-sets to delineate patterns of participation in higher education (HE) and, thereby, to contribute to the development of policy and professional practice in widening access in Wales (and more widely). The project was based upon a collaboration between the…

Research Team: Caroline Wright (University of Bristol), Ceryn Evans (Cardiff University), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Gareth Rees (Cardiff University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Stephen Drinkwater (University of Roehampton)