Kirsty Finn
Biographic Data
| ID | 388174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsty Finn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsty |
| FAMILY NAME | Finn |
| SIGNATURE | FINN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5694-3401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Student workers as proto-workers: ‘Experience’, quitting and the production of consent
Work undertaken by students is widespread, but largely overlooked, with this employment dismissed as a precursor to ‘real work’. The designation of student work as not real, ‘proto-work’, is central to the production of consent. Drawing on original analysis of focus group interviews with 83 students undertaking paid work and Burawoy’s text, Manufacturing Consent , the article identifies two ways in which hegemonic legitimation of and consent to e…
The contemporary contradictions of belonging in higher education: Successful transitions in times of crisis
Educational transitions have way-markers and objective milestones as students enter, move through and exit institutional spaces within a normative timeframe. Increasingly, however, scholarship has illuminated the affective dimensions of transition that are less inclined towards measurement, but which nevertheless shape experiences and outcomes. Within these framings, transitions are tied to notions of both success and feelings of belonging, which…
Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed: Gender and the 'Black Box' of Student Employment
Students comprise approximately four per cent of the UK labour force and as much as 20% in some occupations and jobs. Yet students' work is typically seen as marginal, secondary both to their current learning and future working biographies. Public and media attention on 'earning while learning' (EwL) tends to focus on the negative impacts of paid work on education. Meanwhile students' actual working conditions, occupations and employment experien…
GirlBossing the university side hustle: Entrepreneurial femininities, postfeminism and the veneer of ‘female success’ in times of crisis
Against a backdrop of the growing crisis in higher education, the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and a longer-term precaritisation of the youth and graduate labour market, the last 2 years have witnessed an increased visibility and promotion of flexible, entrepreneurial and often digitally mediated forms of self-employment addressed at young women, including the ‘side hustle’. With media declarations such as ‘the university side hustle…
Sharing the load: Commuting and belonging for staff and students in UK universities
No abstract available
Hard Work and Authenticity? From the Imagined to the Everyday Investments in Education and Successful Futures
The start of 2019 has seen universities in the United Kingdom come under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their courses offer value for money to the growing number of students who move throu
Belonging, pausing, feeling: A framework of “mobile dwelling” for U.K. university students that live at home
Notions of place and dwelling have become increasingly dynamic of late. No longer is place considered the sedentary equivalent to mobility, instead the spaces at which place and mobility intersect have produced exciting new ways of thinking about liminoid and mobile places, and how one might dwell in and through these intersections. In this paper we develop a framework of mobile dwelling to better understand student mobilities within UK higher ed…
Being-in-motion: The everyday (gendered and classed) embodied mobilities for UK university students who commute
This article makes the case for a more robust mobilities approach to student geographies in the UK, in order to problematise the enduring binary of [im]mobility (‘going away’ vs. ‘staying local’) and to challenge the presumed linearity of educational (and mobility) transitions in higher education. Through a discussion of two UK-based studies, we make the case for considering the complex and multi-layered everyday mobilities of students who commut…
Multiple, relational and emotional mobilities: Understanding student mobilities in higher education as more than ‘staying local’ and ‘going away’
This paper advances theorising around student geographies in higher education ( HE ). It extends recent work, which has problematised the primacy of social class and binary thinking about student mobilities, and presents local/non‐local experiences and im/mobility as a defining dualism. Drawing on a qualitative longitudinal study of women's experiences during and on completion of HE , the following explores the ways in which a more diverse and co…
Personal Life, Young Women and Higher Education: A Relational Approach to Student and Graduate Experiences
The experience of higher education in the UK has become an increasingly common phenomenon in the 21st century. This book explores the emotional and moral significance of the relationships young women
I just never thought he’d be that way’: Young women, higher education and the shifting emotional dimensions of home
The subject of emotion constitutes an emerging field within sociology. Underpinning debates about changing family relationships is a longstanding focus on troublesome emotions such as anxiety, stress and ambivalence. Key scholars – Bauman; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim; and Giddens – have been influential in setting the tone of this debate in which problematic emotions and fragile personal relationships are considered to be the new order in contemporar…
Young, free and single? Theorising partner relationships during the first year of university
Recent research into young people’s private social worlds has highlighted the significance of family and friend relationships for students’ experiences of the transition to university. Drawing on data generated through a qualitative longitudinal study with 24 young women undergraduate students, this paper provides an original contribution to this growing body of literature by bringing committed partner relationships into view. The following discu…
Multiple, relational and emotional mobilities: Understanding student mobilities in higher education as more than ‘staying local’ and ‘going away’
This paper advances theorising around student geographies in higher education ( HE ). It extends recent work, which has problematised the primacy of social class and binary thinking about student mobilities, and presents local/non‐local experiences and im/mobility as a defining dualism. Drawing on a qualitative longitudinal study of women's experiences during and on completion of HE , the following explores the ways in which a more diverse and co…
Being-in-motion: The everyday (gendered and classed) embodied mobilities for UK university students who commute
This article makes the case for a more robust mobilities approach to student geographies in the UK, in order to problematise the enduring binary of [im]mobility (‘going away’ vs. ‘staying local’) and to challenge the presumed linearity of educational (and mobility) transitions in higher education. Through a discussion of two UK-based studies, we make the case for considering the complex and multi-layered everyday mobilities of students who commut…
GirlBossing the university side hustle: Entrepreneurial femininities, postfeminism and the veneer of ‘female success’ in times of crisis
Against a backdrop of the growing crisis in higher education, the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and a longer-term precaritisation of the youth and graduate labour market, the last 2 years have witnessed an increased visibility and promotion of flexible, entrepreneurial and often digitally mediated forms of self-employment addressed at young women, including the ‘side hustle’. With media declarations such as ‘the university side hustle…
Belonging, pausing, feeling: A framework of “mobile dwelling” for U.K. university students that live at home
Notions of place and dwelling have become increasingly dynamic of late. No longer is place considered the sedentary equivalent to mobility, instead the spaces at which place and mobility intersect have produced exciting new ways of thinking about liminoid and mobile places, and how one might dwell in and through these intersections. In this paper we develop a framework of mobile dwelling to better understand student mobilities within UK higher ed…
Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed: Gender and the 'Black Box' of Student Employment
Students comprise approximately four per cent of the UK labour force and as much as 20% in some occupations and jobs. Yet students' work is typically seen as marginal, secondary both to their current learning and future working biographies. Public and media attention on 'earning while learning' (EwL) tends to focus on the negative impacts of paid work on education. Meanwhile students' actual working conditions, occupations and employment experien…
I just never thought he’d be that way’: Young women, higher education and the shifting emotional dimensions of home
The subject of emotion constitutes an emerging field within sociology. Underpinning debates about changing family relationships is a longstanding focus on troublesome emotions such as anxiety, stress and ambivalence. Key scholars – Bauman; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim; and Giddens – have been influential in setting the tone of this debate in which problematic emotions and fragile personal relationships are considered to be the new order in contemporar…
Young, free and single? Theorising partner relationships during the first year of university
Recent research into young people’s private social worlds has highlighted the significance of family and friend relationships for students’ experiences of the transition to university. Drawing on data generated through a qualitative longitudinal study with 24 young women undergraduate students, this paper provides an original contribution to this growing body of literature by bringing committed partner relationships into view. The following discu…
I just never thought he’d be that way’: Young women, higher education and the shifting emotional dimensions of home
The subject of emotion constitutes an emerging field within sociology. Underpinning debates about changing family relationships is a longstanding focus on troublesome emotions such as anxiety, stress and ambivalence. Key scholars – Bauman; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim; and Giddens – have been influential in setting the tone of this debate in which problematic emotions and fragile personal relationships are considered to be the new order in contemporar…
Young, free and single? Theorising partner relationships during the first year of university
Recent research into young people’s private social worlds has highlighted the significance of family and friend relationships for students’ experiences of the transition to university. Drawing on data generated through a qualitative longitudinal study with 24 young women undergraduate students, this paper provides an original contribution to this growing body of literature by bringing committed partner relationships into view. The following discu…
Personal Life, Young Women and Higher Education: A Relational Approach to Student and Graduate Experiences
The experience of higher education in the UK has become an increasingly common phenomenon in the 21st century. This book explores the emotional and moral significance of the relationships young women
Multiple, relational and emotional mobilities: Understanding student mobilities in higher education as more than ‘staying local’ and ‘going away’
This paper advances theorising around student geographies in higher education ( HE ). It extends recent work, which has problematised the primacy of social class and binary thinking about student mobilities, and presents local/non‐local experiences and im/mobility as a defining dualism. Drawing on a qualitative longitudinal study of women's experiences during and on completion of HE , the following explores the ways in which a more diverse and co…
Belonging, pausing, feeling: A framework of “mobile dwelling” for U.K. university students that live at home
Notions of place and dwelling have become increasingly dynamic of late. No longer is place considered the sedentary equivalent to mobility, instead the spaces at which place and mobility intersect have produced exciting new ways of thinking about liminoid and mobile places, and how one might dwell in and through these intersections. In this paper we develop a framework of mobile dwelling to better understand student mobilities within UK higher ed…
Being-in-motion: The everyday (gendered and classed) embodied mobilities for UK university students who commute
This article makes the case for a more robust mobilities approach to student geographies in the UK, in order to problematise the enduring binary of [im]mobility (‘going away’ vs. ‘staying local’) and to challenge the presumed linearity of educational (and mobility) transitions in higher education. Through a discussion of two UK-based studies, we make the case for considering the complex and multi-layered everyday mobilities of students who commut…
Sharing the load: Commuting and belonging for staff and students in UK universities
No abstract available
Hard Work and Authenticity? From the Imagined to the Everyday Investments in Education and Successful Futures
The start of 2019 has seen universities in the United Kingdom come under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their courses offer value for money to the growing number of students who move throu
GirlBossing the university side hustle: Entrepreneurial femininities, postfeminism and the veneer of ‘female success’ in times of crisis
Against a backdrop of the growing crisis in higher education, the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and a longer-term precaritisation of the youth and graduate labour market, the last 2 years have witnessed an increased visibility and promotion of flexible, entrepreneurial and often digitally mediated forms of self-employment addressed at young women, including the ‘side hustle’. With media declarations such as ‘the university side hustle…
Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed: Gender and the 'Black Box' of Student Employment
Students comprise approximately four per cent of the UK labour force and as much as 20% in some occupations and jobs. Yet students' work is typically seen as marginal, secondary both to their current learning and future working biographies. Public and media attention on 'earning while learning' (EwL) tends to focus on the negative impacts of paid work on education. Meanwhile students' actual working conditions, occupations and employment experien…
Student workers as proto-workers: ‘Experience’, quitting and the production of consent
Work undertaken by students is widespread, but largely overlooked, with this employment dismissed as a precursor to ‘real work’. The designation of student work as not real, ‘proto-work’, is central to the production of consent. Drawing on original analysis of focus group interviews with 83 students undertaking paid work and Burawoy’s text, Manufacturing Consent , the article identifies two ways in which hegemonic legitimation of and consent to e…
The contemporary contradictions of belonging in higher education: Successful transitions in times of crisis
Educational transitions have way-markers and objective milestones as students enter, move through and exit institutional spaces within a normative timeframe. Increasingly, however, scholarship has illuminated the affective dimensions of transition that are less inclined towards measurement, but which nevertheless shape experiences and outcomes. Within these framings, transitions are tied to notions of both success and feelings of belonging, which…
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works)