C Casey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Casey |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Casey |
| SIGNATURE | CASEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | School for Business and Society, University of York, York, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3201-3274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Player, Purist, Pragmatist
Degree apprenticeships offer a new route to a degree in UK higher education, with policymakers emphasising their social mobility potential to widen access to graduate professions.In this context, this article compares the employability perceptions and strategies of aspiring solicitors on traditional university and degree apprenticeship routes in England.Following Bathmaker, Ingram, and Waller (2013), we adopt the analogy of 'playing the game' to …
Legal apprenticeships
This original study presents findings from a study of members of the first cohort of legal degree apprentices. Introduced in the UK in 2016, legal degree apprenticeships (LAs) remove uncertainty towards legal qualification in an otherwise competitive graduate recruitment environment and could help to increase social mobility into the professions. We examine the impact of the LA pathway on the development of wellbeing and capabilities of apprentic…
Managing Uncertainty and Risk in Access to the Solicitors' Profession in England
Despite decades of diversity and widening participation initiatives, access to elite professions for those from lower socio-economic backgrounds remains a troublingly persistent issue. Degree apprenticeships present an alternative to the traditional university pathway and an opportunity to increase social mobility into professional occupations. Yet, uptake of this pathway has so far been from more advantaged individuals. This article explores the…
University or Degree Apprenticeship? Stratification and Uncertainty in Routes to the Solicitors' Profession
This article considers whether degree apprenticeships could disrupt traditional university routes to professional careers and redress longstanding inequalities in access between individuals from different social backgrounds. Using the solicitors' profession as a pertinent case, issues of access and choice are explored, utilising Breen and Goldthorpe's theory of Relative Risk Aversion to understand variation across social background. Drawing on 23…
University or Degree Apprenticeship? Stratification and Uncertainty in Routes to the Solicitors' Profession
This article considers whether degree apprenticeships could disrupt traditional university routes to professional careers and redress longstanding inequalities in access between individuals from different social backgrounds. Using the solicitors' profession as a pertinent case, issues of access and choice are explored, utilising Breen and Goldthorpe's theory of Relative Risk Aversion to understand variation across social background. Drawing on 23…
Managing Uncertainty and Risk in Access to the Solicitors' Profession in England
Despite decades of diversity and widening participation initiatives, access to elite professions for those from lower socio-economic backgrounds remains a troublingly persistent issue. Degree apprenticeships present an alternative to the traditional university pathway and an opportunity to increase social mobility into professional occupations. Yet, uptake of this pathway has so far been from more advantaged individuals. This article explores the…
University or Degree Apprenticeship? Stratification and Uncertainty in Routes to the Solicitors' Profession
This article considers whether degree apprenticeships could disrupt traditional university routes to professional careers and redress longstanding inequalities in access between individuals from different social backgrounds. Using the solicitors' profession as a pertinent case, issues of access and choice are explored, utilising Breen and Goldthorpe's theory of Relative Risk Aversion to understand variation across social background. Drawing on 23…
Player, Purist, Pragmatist
Degree apprenticeships offer a new route to a degree in UK higher education, with policymakers emphasising their social mobility potential to widen access to graduate professions.In this context, this article compares the employability perceptions and strategies of aspiring solicitors on traditional university and degree apprenticeship routes in England.Following Bathmaker, Ingram, and Waller (2013), we adopt the analogy of 'playing the game' to …
Legal apprenticeships
This original study presents findings from a study of members of the first cohort of legal degree apprentices. Introduced in the UK in 2016, legal degree apprenticeships (LAs) remove uncertainty towards legal qualification in an otherwise competitive graduate recruitment environment and could help to increase social mobility into the professions. We examine the impact of the LA pathway on the development of wellbeing and capabilities of apprentic…
Managing Uncertainty and Risk in Access to the Solicitors' Profession in England
Despite decades of diversity and widening participation initiatives, access to elite professions for those from lower socio-economic backgrounds remains a troublingly persistent issue. Degree apprenticeships present an alternative to the traditional university pathway and an opportunity to increase social mobility into professional occupations. Yet, uptake of this pathway has so far been from more advantaged individuals. This article explores the…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Apprenticeship (3 works) · Higher Education and Employability (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medical education (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Diversity (politics) (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)