Author
Neil Harrison
Associate Professor
Neil Harrison is Deputy Director of the Rees Centre at the University of Oxford. He worked for eleven years as a manager in student services before returning to research to investigate contemporary issues in secondary, higher and lifelong education.
3 pieces
Newest first, since January 2018
· Analysis
Higher education can be a transformative experience for care leavers
Neil Harrison presents research that shows that the disadvantage felt by care leavers in early life is often mitigated by study at university.
· Analysis
A lack of aspiration is not the problem
Neil Harrison and Richard Waller argue that when it comes to widening participation, aspiration isn’t the issue – and that a ‘possible selves’ approach might be the way forward.
With Richard Waller
· Analysis
Encouraging care leavers into higher education
Care leavers are 11% less likely to enter HE than those from other background. Neil Harrison asks why, and what we can do to offer more appropriate support.