Sazana Jayadeva
Biographic Data
| ID | 114165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sazana Jayadeva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sazana |
| FAMILY NAME | Jayadeva |
| SIGNATURE | JAYADEVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7894-2263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Constructing National Higher Education Brands: Korea, India and Israel Compared
This study examines the websites of the national higher education (HE) brands of Study in Korea, Study in India and Study in Israel , exploring how these ‘offbeat’ destinations position themselves in the global HE market. Drawing on rhetorical analysis and employing a qualitative comparative case study approach, it reveals the key identity markers and rhetorical strategies employed in each campaign, considering temporal shifts. While these brands…
The strange times of international studentship: A comparative study of the United Kingdom , Denmark and Germany
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork across the United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany, this article explores how internationally mobile students navigate intersecting temporal structures of university life, everyday routines and broader lifecourse trajectories. We examine two interrelated dimensions: first, ‘university time’, encompassing academic rhythms and institutional schedules, and how students perceive, negotiate, adapt to or resist these struc…
‘A gift and a curse’: The benefits and limitations of self-tracking Long Covid
People living with Long COVID are dealing with significant challenges related to limited understanding of this novel condition, social stigma, and lack of support from medical professionals and others in their lives. This article discusses findings from a qualitative study about how people with Long COVID have spontaneously engaged in self-tracking for the purposes of understanding and managing their illness. It draws on 30 semi-structured interv…
Getting Back on Track: Student Migration From India to Germany as a Route to Desirable Employment
This article examines the rising postgraduate-level student migration of Indian engineers to Germany, drawing on interviews with 42 Indians who were applying to, currently pursuing, or had recently graduated from engineering Master's degrees in Germany. It illustrates how the affordable cost of study in Germany had made postgraduate study abroad a feasible strategy for the study participants to escape the unfavourable job market for graduates of …
Most People with Long Covid Are Their Own Doctors: Self-Tracking and Online Patient Groups as Pathways to Challenging Epistemic Injustice
This article focuses on the struggles of people with Long COVID to obtain diagnoses and treatment in the face of medical dismissal and ignorance. Drawing on interviews with people with Long COVID who have engaged in self-tracking activities, it illustrates how these practices proved a valuable, if not completely successful, way to challenge medical dominance and epistemic privilege in relation to this contested illness. Furthermore, study finding…
International student mobility within Europe: Responding to contemporary challenges
In this article, we provide an introduction to the special issue on ‘Challenges to International Student Mobility within Europe’. We first discuss the current context of such mobility and justify our focus on Europe, in particular, by outlining some distinctive features of this geographical region. We then outline the contributions of the articles that make up the special issue—in terms of the challenges they identify, the ways in which they theo…
Study-abroad influencers' and insider knowledge: How new forms of study-abroad expertise on social media mediate student mobility from India to Germany
This paper examines new forms of study-abroad expertise on social media and their role in mediating Indian student mobility to Germany. Firstly, it explores how mutual-support Facebook and WhatsApp groups—used by prospective international students in India to support each other through the process of applying to German universities—have contributed to the emergence of new forms of education consultancy, offered by Indian students or graduates of …
Paradise lost or created? How higher-education staff perceive the impact of policy on students
This paper explores how university staff in Denmark, Germany, and England perceived higher education (HE) policy as impacting the experience of being a student in their respective countries. While, in each nation, different policy mechanisms were identified as having triggered transformations in the experience of being a student, the transformations themselves were described in a strikingly similar manner across all three countries: staff stresse…
The (stereo)typical student: How European higher education students feel they are viewed by relevant others
There is a growing body of scholarship on how students see themselves, and also on how they are conceptualised by other social actors. However, what has been less explored is how students believe they are seen by others, and how this impacts them. Drawing on focus groups with students across Europe – and particularly plasticine models students made to depict how they felt they were seen by relevant others – this paper will illustrate how the four…
Students’ views about the purpose of higher education: A comparative analysis of six European countries
Across Europe, assumptions are often made within the academic literature and by some social commentators that students have come to understand the purpose of higher education (HE) in increasingly instrumental terms. This is often linked to processes of marketisation and neo-liberalisation across the Global North, in which the value of HE has come to be associated with economic reward and labour market participation and measured through a relative…
Higher education students’ aspirations for their post-university lives: Evidence from six European nations
While there is now a relatively large literature on young people's aspirations with respect to their transitions from compulsory schooling, the body of work on the aspirations of those within higher education is rather less well-developed. This article draws on data from undergraduate students in six European countries to explore their hopes for their post-university lives. It demonstrates that although aspirations for employment were discussed m…
Students in Marketised Higher Education Landscapes: An Introduction
Are Spanish Students Customers? Paradoxical Perceptions of the Impact of Marketisation on Higher Education in Spain
This article examines how higher education (HE) students are conceptualised in Spain, drawing on an analysis of policy and institutional narratives about such students, as well as on the perspectives of university staff and students themselves. More specifically, it will explore an interesting paradox that we encountered in our data: on one hand, marketisation is less firmly established in the HE system of Spain than in many other European countr…
Higher Education Timescapes: Temporal Understandings of Students and Learning
This article draws on data from six European countries (Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Poland and Spain) to explore the higher education timescapes inhabited by students. Despite arguments that degree-level study has become increasingly similar across Europe - because of global pressures and also specific initiatives such as the Bologna Process and the creation of a European Higher Education Area - it shows how such timescapes differed in im…
Students as political actors? Similarities and differences across six European nations
Drawing on data from students, higher education staff and policymakers from six European countries, this article argues that it remains a relatively common assumption that students should be politically engaged. However, while students articulated a strong interest in a wide range of political issues, those working in higher education and influencing higher education policy tended to believe that students were considerably less politically active…
Keep calm and apply to Germany: How online communities mediate transnational student mobility from India to Germany
This paper draws attention to the increasingly central yet understudied role of social media in facilitating student mobility from India. More specifically, it explores the emergence of online mutual-help communities of aspirant student migrants on Facebook and WhatsApp, which are aimed at helping members navigate the process of going abroad for study. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork focused on postgraduate-level student migration from India to…
English-Medium: Schooling, Social Mobility, and Inequality in Bangalore, India
Focusing on low-cost English-medium schools, this article investigates whether the ideology of the transformative potential of English-medium education squares with most people's experiences of this education in urban India. It shows how such schools enable socioeconomic mobility among the middle classes while also creating new forms of inequality. It argues that a meaningful evaluation of education outcomes requires understanding students' and t…
Below English Line: An ethnographic exploration of class and the English language in post-liberalization India
Anthropological studies of India's post-liberalization middle classes have tended to focus mainly on the role of consumption behaviour in the constitution of this class group. Building on these studies, and taking class as an object of ethnographic enquiry, I argue that, over the last 20 years, class dynamics in the country have been significantly altered by the unprecedentedly important and complex role that the English language has come to play…
Below English Line: An ethnographic exploration of class and the English language in post-liberalization India
Anthropological studies of India's post-liberalization middle classes have tended to focus mainly on the role of consumption behaviour in the constitution of this class group. Building on these studies, and taking class as an object of ethnographic enquiry, I argue that, over the last 20 years, class dynamics in the country have been significantly altered by the unprecedentedly important and complex role that the English language has come to play…
Keep calm and apply to Germany: How online communities mediate transnational student mobility from India to Germany
This paper draws attention to the increasingly central yet understudied role of social media in facilitating student mobility from India. More specifically, it explores the emergence of online mutual-help communities of aspirant student migrants on Facebook and WhatsApp, which are aimed at helping members navigate the process of going abroad for study. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork focused on postgraduate-level student migration from India to…
English-Medium: Schooling, Social Mobility, and Inequality in Bangalore, India
Focusing on low-cost English-medium schools, this article investigates whether the ideology of the transformative potential of English-medium education squares with most people's experiences of this education in urban India. It shows how such schools enable socioeconomic mobility among the middle classes while also creating new forms of inequality. It argues that a meaningful evaluation of education outcomes requires understanding students' and t…
Higher Education Timescapes: Temporal Understandings of Students and Learning
This article draws on data from six European countries (Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Poland and Spain) to explore the higher education timescapes inhabited by students. Despite arguments that degree-level study has become increasingly similar across Europe - because of global pressures and also specific initiatives such as the Bologna Process and the creation of a European Higher Education Area - it shows how such timescapes differed in im…
Paradise lost or created? How higher-education staff perceive the impact of policy on students
This paper explores how university staff in Denmark, Germany, and England perceived higher education (HE) policy as impacting the experience of being a student in their respective countries. While, in each nation, different policy mechanisms were identified as having triggered transformations in the experience of being a student, the transformations themselves were described in a strikingly similar manner across all three countries: staff stresse…
Are Spanish Students Customers? Paradoxical Perceptions of the Impact of Marketisation on Higher Education in Spain
This article examines how higher education (HE) students are conceptualised in Spain, drawing on an analysis of policy and institutional narratives about such students, as well as on the perspectives of university staff and students themselves. More specifically, it will explore an interesting paradox that we encountered in our data: on one hand, marketisation is less firmly established in the HE system of Spain than in many other European countr…
Higher education students’ aspirations for their post-university lives: Evidence from six European nations
While there is now a relatively large literature on young people's aspirations with respect to their transitions from compulsory schooling, the body of work on the aspirations of those within higher education is rather less well-developed. This article draws on data from undergraduate students in six European countries to explore their hopes for their post-university lives. It demonstrates that although aspirations for employment were discussed m…
Students in Marketised Higher Education Landscapes: An Introduction
Students as political actors? Similarities and differences across six European nations
Drawing on data from students, higher education staff and policymakers from six European countries, this article argues that it remains a relatively common assumption that students should be politically engaged. However, while students articulated a strong interest in a wide range of political issues, those working in higher education and influencing higher education policy tended to believe that students were considerably less politically active…
Study-abroad influencers' and insider knowledge: How new forms of study-abroad expertise on social media mediate student mobility from India to Germany
This paper examines new forms of study-abroad expertise on social media and their role in mediating Indian student mobility to Germany. Firstly, it explores how mutual-support Facebook and WhatsApp groups—used by prospective international students in India to support each other through the process of applying to German universities—have contributed to the emergence of new forms of education consultancy, offered by Indian students or graduates of …
Below English Line: An ethnographic exploration of class and the English language in post-liberalization India
Anthropological studies of India's post-liberalization middle classes have tended to focus mainly on the role of consumption behaviour in the constitution of this class group. Building on these studies, and taking class as an object of ethnographic enquiry, I argue that, over the last 20 years, class dynamics in the country have been significantly altered by the unprecedentedly important and complex role that the English language has come to play…
English-Medium: Schooling, Social Mobility, and Inequality in Bangalore, India
Focusing on low-cost English-medium schools, this article investigates whether the ideology of the transformative potential of English-medium education squares with most people's experiences of this education in urban India. It shows how such schools enable socioeconomic mobility among the middle classes while also creating new forms of inequality. It argues that a meaningful evaluation of education outcomes requires understanding students' and t…
Students as political actors? Similarities and differences across six European nations
Drawing on data from students, higher education staff and policymakers from six European countries, this article argues that it remains a relatively common assumption that students should be politically engaged. However, while students articulated a strong interest in a wide range of political issues, those working in higher education and influencing higher education policy tended to believe that students were considerably less politically active…
Keep calm and apply to Germany: How online communities mediate transnational student mobility from India to Germany
This paper draws attention to the increasingly central yet understudied role of social media in facilitating student mobility from India. More specifically, it explores the emergence of online mutual-help communities of aspirant student migrants on Facebook and WhatsApp, which are aimed at helping members navigate the process of going abroad for study. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork focused on postgraduate-level student migration from India to…
Students’ views about the purpose of higher education: A comparative analysis of six European countries
Across Europe, assumptions are often made within the academic literature and by some social commentators that students have come to understand the purpose of higher education (HE) in increasingly instrumental terms. This is often linked to processes of marketisation and neo-liberalisation across the Global North, in which the value of HE has come to be associated with economic reward and labour market participation and measured through a relative…
Higher education students’ aspirations for their post-university lives: Evidence from six European nations
While there is now a relatively large literature on young people's aspirations with respect to their transitions from compulsory schooling, the body of work on the aspirations of those within higher education is rather less well-developed. This article draws on data from undergraduate students in six European countries to explore their hopes for their post-university lives. It demonstrates that although aspirations for employment were discussed m…
Students in Marketised Higher Education Landscapes: An Introduction
Are Spanish Students Customers? Paradoxical Perceptions of the Impact of Marketisation on Higher Education in Spain
This article examines how higher education (HE) students are conceptualised in Spain, drawing on an analysis of policy and institutional narratives about such students, as well as on the perspectives of university staff and students themselves. More specifically, it will explore an interesting paradox that we encountered in our data: on one hand, marketisation is less firmly established in the HE system of Spain than in many other European countr…
Higher Education Timescapes: Temporal Understandings of Students and Learning
This article draws on data from six European countries (Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Poland and Spain) to explore the higher education timescapes inhabited by students. Despite arguments that degree-level study has become increasingly similar across Europe - because of global pressures and also specific initiatives such as the Bologna Process and the creation of a European Higher Education Area - it shows how such timescapes differed in im…
Paradise lost or created? How higher-education staff perceive the impact of policy on students
This paper explores how university staff in Denmark, Germany, and England perceived higher education (HE) policy as impacting the experience of being a student in their respective countries. While, in each nation, different policy mechanisms were identified as having triggered transformations in the experience of being a student, the transformations themselves were described in a strikingly similar manner across all three countries: staff stresse…
The (stereo)typical student: How European higher education students feel they are viewed by relevant others
There is a growing body of scholarship on how students see themselves, and also on how they are conceptualised by other social actors. However, what has been less explored is how students believe they are seen by others, and how this impacts them. Drawing on focus groups with students across Europe – and particularly plasticine models students made to depict how they felt they were seen by relevant others – this paper will illustrate how the four…
International student mobility within Europe: Responding to contemporary challenges
In this article, we provide an introduction to the special issue on ‘Challenges to International Student Mobility within Europe’. We first discuss the current context of such mobility and justify our focus on Europe, in particular, by outlining some distinctive features of this geographical region. We then outline the contributions of the articles that make up the special issue—in terms of the challenges they identify, the ways in which they theo…
Study-abroad influencers' and insider knowledge: How new forms of study-abroad expertise on social media mediate student mobility from India to Germany
This paper examines new forms of study-abroad expertise on social media and their role in mediating Indian student mobility to Germany. Firstly, it explores how mutual-support Facebook and WhatsApp groups—used by prospective international students in India to support each other through the process of applying to German universities—have contributed to the emergence of new forms of education consultancy, offered by Indian students or graduates of …
‘A gift and a curse’: The benefits and limitations of self-tracking Long Covid
People living with Long COVID are dealing with significant challenges related to limited understanding of this novel condition, social stigma, and lack of support from medical professionals and others in their lives. This article discusses findings from a qualitative study about how people with Long COVID have spontaneously engaged in self-tracking for the purposes of understanding and managing their illness. It draws on 30 semi-structured interv…
Getting Back on Track: Student Migration From India to Germany as a Route to Desirable Employment
This article examines the rising postgraduate-level student migration of Indian engineers to Germany, drawing on interviews with 42 Indians who were applying to, currently pursuing, or had recently graduated from engineering Master's degrees in Germany. It illustrates how the affordable cost of study in Germany had made postgraduate study abroad a feasible strategy for the study participants to escape the unfavourable job market for graduates of …
Most People with Long Covid Are Their Own Doctors: Self-Tracking and Online Patient Groups as Pathways to Challenging Epistemic Injustice
This article focuses on the struggles of people with Long COVID to obtain diagnoses and treatment in the face of medical dismissal and ignorance. Drawing on interviews with people with Long COVID who have engaged in self-tracking activities, it illustrates how these practices proved a valuable, if not completely successful, way to challenge medical dominance and epistemic privilege in relation to this contested illness. Furthermore, study finding…
Constructing National Higher Education Brands: Korea, India and Israel Compared
This study examines the websites of the national higher education (HE) brands of Study in Korea, Study in India and Study in Israel , exploring how these ‘offbeat’ destinations position themselves in the global HE market. Drawing on rhetorical analysis and employing a qualitative comparative case study approach, it reveals the key identity markers and rhetorical strategies employed in each campaign, considering temporal shifts. While these brands…
The strange times of international studentship: A comparative study of the United Kingdom , Denmark and Germany
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork across the United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany, this article explores how internationally mobile students navigate intersecting temporal structures of university life, everyday routines and broader lifecourse trajectories. We examine two interrelated dimensions: first, ‘university time’, encompassing academic rhythms and institutional schedules, and how students perceive, negotiate, adapt to or resist these struc…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (10 works) · Higher education (9 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)