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The rise of agentic inclusion in the UK universities : maintaining reputation through (formal) diversification
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Baltaru, Roxana-Diana (2022) The rise of agentic inclusion in the UK universities : maintaining reputation through (formal) diversification. Studies in Higher Education, 47 (1). pp. 229-242. doi:10.1080/03075079.2020.1739015 ISSN 0307-5079.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1739015
Abstract
The pursuit of inclusion in elite universities has been widely explored from a structural lens concerned with issues of access faced by traditionally underrepresented students and staff. Building from a sociological institutionalist approach, this paper proposes the concept of ‘agentic inclusion’ to capture the growing valorisation of universities’ agency in the pursuit of inclusion, and the underlying shift from inclusion as ‘structural pursuit’ to inclusion as ‘organisational commitment’. Drawing on primary data mapping the presence of inclusion offices, units and teams across 124 UK universities as of 2018, and secondary data such as student and staff inclusion statistics, I show that elite universities are leading in the organisational display of inclusion, irrespective of the actual levels of inclusion across traditionally underrepresented students and staff. The findings call for further research into the gap between universities’ organisational commitments to inclusion and inclusion at the structural level and inform several policy recommendations.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology L Education > LC Special aspects of education L Education > LF Individual institutions (Europe) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Affirmative action programs in education -- Great Britain, Minorities in higher education -- Great Britain, Inclusive education -- Great Britain, Elite (Social sciences), Universities and colleges -- Great Britain -- Admission | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Studies in Higher Education | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0307-5079 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | January 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 47 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 229-242 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/03075079.2020.1739015 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Higher Education on 19 Mar 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03075079.2020.1739015 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 April 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 September 2021 | ||||||||
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