Liz Austen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5237522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liz Austen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liz |
| FAMILY NAME | Austen |
| SIGNATURE | AUSTEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2837-8297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why a “whack-a-mole” approach to widening participation won’t work - and what to do about it
Despite increasing access to higher education (HE) over the past two decades, students from disadvantaged backgrounds remain less likely to enter the most selective institutions, and less likely to achieve good outcomes. In England, providers that charge more than £6,000 a year tuition fees must have an Access and Participation Plan (APP) approved by the Office for Students (OfS). Plans aim to improve equality in student access, success, and prog…
Evaluation of access and participation plans
We present an analysis of two current policy options to improve evaluation of access and participation work: independent external evaluation vs. in-house evaluation. Evaluation of access and participation work needs to be well-conducted, objective and widely disseminated, regardless of the outcome. Independent external evaluation is likely to provide objectivity and the right skills, but providing effective and timely feedback may be prohibitivel…
Values in Criminology and Community Justice
The way we think about crime and the way that society responds to it are imbued with values that can determine what is considered important and what gets attention. Sometimes values that are claimed may not be the values expressed in practice, as we see in the multiple and confusing discourses about victims and offenders, punishment and protection, rights and responsibilities. This collection of writings considers values in crime theory, criminal…
The social construction of risk by young people
The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of a widely accepted risk discourse. This discussion presents a range of data which aims to highlight weaknesses in the widespread application of the ‘risk society’ thesis (Beck 1992 Beck, U. 1992. Risk society, London: Sage. [Google Scholar]). This paper uses the lives of young people as a context specific example. This selection of quantitative and qualitative data, taken from a school…
The Relationship Between Likelihood and Fear of Criminal Victimization
Crime surveys typically ask respondents how ‘likely’ they think it is that they will become a crime victim in the future. The responses are interpreted here as ‘risk’ statements. An investigation of the risk literature shows the concept to be considerably more complex than at first imagined, but shows that individual risk predictions are largely based on interpretations far removed from rational considerations of likelihood based on recorded crim…
The Relationship Between Likelihood and Fear of Criminal Victimization
Crime surveys typically ask respondents how ‘likely’ they think it is that they will become a crime victim in the future. The responses are interpreted here as ‘risk’ statements. An investigation of the risk literature shows the concept to be considerably more complex than at first imagined, but shows that individual risk predictions are largely based on interpretations far removed from rational considerations of likelihood based on recorded crim…
The Relationship Between Likelihood and Fear of Criminal Victimization
Crime surveys typically ask respondents how ‘likely’ they think it is that they will become a crime victim in the future. The responses are interpreted here as ‘risk’ statements. An investigation of the risk literature shows the concept to be considerably more complex than at first imagined, but shows that individual risk predictions are largely based on interpretations far removed from rational considerations of likelihood based on recorded crim…
The social construction of risk by young people
The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of a widely accepted risk discourse. This discussion presents a range of data which aims to highlight weaknesses in the widespread application of the ‘risk society’ thesis (Beck 1992 Beck, U. 1992. Risk society, London: Sage. [Google Scholar]). This paper uses the lives of young people as a context specific example. This selection of quantitative and qualitative data, taken from a school…
Values in Criminology and Community Justice
The way we think about crime and the way that society responds to it are imbued with values that can determine what is considered important and what gets attention. Sometimes values that are claimed may not be the values expressed in practice, as we see in the multiple and confusing discourses about victims and offenders, punishment and protection, rights and responsibilities. This collection of writings considers values in crime theory, criminal…
Evaluation of access and participation plans
We present an analysis of two current policy options to improve evaluation of access and participation work: independent external evaluation vs. in-house evaluation. Evaluation of access and participation work needs to be well-conducted, objective and widely disseminated, regardless of the outcome. Independent external evaluation is likely to provide objectivity and the right skills, but providing effective and timely feedback may be prohibitivel…
Why a “whack-a-mole” approach to widening participation won’t work - and what to do about it
Despite increasing access to higher education (HE) over the past two decades, students from disadvantaged backgrounds remain less likely to enter the most selective institutions, and less likely to achieve good outcomes. In England, providers that charge more than £6,000 a year tuition fees must have an Access and Participation Plan (APP) approved by the Office for Students (OfS). Plans aim to improve equality in student access, success, and prog…
Engineering (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Knowledge management (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (1 works)