The latest book from UniSA researchers

Gendering the First-in-Family Experience

Despite efforts to widen participation, first-in-family students, as an equity group, remain severely underrepresented in higher education internationally.

A new book, Gendering the First-in-Family Experience: Transitions, Liminality, Performativity, explores and analyses the gendered and classed subjectivities of 48 Australian students in the First-in-Family Project serving as a fresh perspective to the study of youth in transition.

Co-written by UniSA research assistant Dr Sarah McDonald, the book draws on liminality to provide theoretical insight. The authors focus on how they engage in multiple overlapping and mutually informing transitions into and from higher education, the family, service work, and so forth. While studies of class disadvantage and widening participation in higher education remains robust, there is considerably less work addressing the gendered experiences of first-in-family students.

The book is available from Routledge.

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