Amanda French
Biographic Data
| ID | 3941338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda French |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | French |
| SIGNATURE | FRENCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birmingham City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8144-1478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Marketisation and post-1992 universities’ enactment of Widening Participation in the UK
Drawing on two pieces of research, this paper focuses on the impact of marketisation on Widening Participation (WP) outreach activities amid indications of a narrowing of participation and in the wake of a tightening Higher Education (HE) funding environment. Within a field of competitive marketisation in HE, we problematise WP outreach interventions and the extent to which aims related to social justice are in tension with institutional response…
A missed opportunity? How the UK's teaching excellence framework fails to capture the voice of university staff
Drawing on recent research involving approximately 6000 higher education staff, this paper examines the impact of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) on their professional lives since its launch in 2016. Our findings raise fundamental concerns, methodologically and conceptually, about the fitness for the purpose of the TEF and its failure to take into account the views and experiences of higher education staff. With a rel…
Academic writing as identity-work in higher education
This paper reconceptualises academic writing in HE in order to explore how the symbolic significance and practical importance of academic writing in higher education is a constant presence, despite remaining elusive and difficult to define and/or execute in practice. I apply Bourdieu’s (1985 Bourdieu, P. 1985. “The Genesis of the Concepts of Habitus and of Field.” Sociocriticism 2: 11–24. [Google Scholar]) concept of ‘habitus’ and ‘doxa’ to take …
The Devil Within
Journal Article The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West, by Brian P. Levack Get access The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West, by Brian P. Levack (New Haven: Yale U.P., 2013; pp. 346. £25). Anna French Anna French University of Gloucestershire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 542, February 2015, Pages 140–142, …
Let the Right Ones In!’
This article challenges the frequently expressed concern that widening participation has contributed to a general ‘dumbing down’ of higher education in English universities. In particular, it explores the implications of a long-standing ‘moral panic’ about the poor quality of students' academic writing, particularly in the post-1992 ‘new’ universities, which have been raised in various academic reports and countless media articles. A vampire meta…
From juxtaposition to multiple embedding
Academic writing as identity-work in higher education
This paper reconceptualises academic writing in HE in order to explore how the symbolic significance and practical importance of academic writing in higher education is a constant presence, despite remaining elusive and difficult to define and/or execute in practice. I apply Bourdieu’s (1985 Bourdieu, P. 1985. “The Genesis of the Concepts of Habitus and of Field.” Sociocriticism 2: 11–24. [Google Scholar]) concept of ‘habitus’ and ‘doxa’ to take …
Let the Right Ones In!’
This article challenges the frequently expressed concern that widening participation has contributed to a general ‘dumbing down’ of higher education in English universities. In particular, it explores the implications of a long-standing ‘moral panic’ about the poor quality of students' academic writing, particularly in the post-1992 ‘new’ universities, which have been raised in various academic reports and countless media articles. A vampire meta…
From juxtaposition to multiple embedding
Let the Right Ones In!’
This article challenges the frequently expressed concern that widening participation has contributed to a general ‘dumbing down’ of higher education in English universities. In particular, it explores the implications of a long-standing ‘moral panic’ about the poor quality of students' academic writing, particularly in the post-1992 ‘new’ universities, which have been raised in various academic reports and countless media articles. A vampire meta…
The Devil Within
Journal Article The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West, by Brian P. Levack Get access The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West, by Brian P. Levack (New Haven: Yale U.P., 2013; pp. 346. £25). Anna French Anna French University of Gloucestershire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 542, February 2015, Pages 140–142, …
Academic writing as identity-work in higher education
This paper reconceptualises academic writing in HE in order to explore how the symbolic significance and practical importance of academic writing in higher education is a constant presence, despite remaining elusive and difficult to define and/or execute in practice. I apply Bourdieu’s (1985 Bourdieu, P. 1985. “The Genesis of the Concepts of Habitus and of Field.” Sociocriticism 2: 11–24. [Google Scholar]) concept of ‘habitus’ and ‘doxa’ to take …
A missed opportunity? How the UK's teaching excellence framework fails to capture the voice of university staff
Drawing on recent research involving approximately 6000 higher education staff, this paper examines the impact of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) on their professional lives since its launch in 2016. Our findings raise fundamental concerns, methodologically and conceptually, about the fitness for the purpose of the TEF and its failure to take into account the views and experiences of higher education staff. With a rel…
Marketisation and post-1992 universities’ enactment of Widening Participation in the UK
Drawing on two pieces of research, this paper focuses on the impact of marketisation on Widening Participation (WP) outreach activities amid indications of a narrowing of participation and in the wake of a tightening Higher Education (HE) funding environment. Within a field of competitive marketisation in HE, we problematise WP outreach interventions and the extent to which aims related to social justice are in tension with institutional response…
Higher education (3 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (3 works) · Higher Education Practises and Engagement (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Academic standards (1 works)