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Clare Holdsworth gets HEA Doctoral Programme Award

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Posted on 25 May 2012

Professor Clare Holdsworth, Professor of Social Geography, School of Physical and Geographical Sciences, and Head of the Centre for Social Policy, has been awarded an HEA Doctoral Programme award.

Clare's research and teaching expertise is in youth studies and she is particularly interested in the spatial context of youth transitions. She has carried out comparative research on leaving home, contrasting the experiences of young people in Britain, Spain and Norway. She has also written extensively on student experiences in the UK and has challenged the assumptions of 'going away to uni'. She believes it is important to recognise and celebrate diversity in student experiences, and that students who live at home while at university have an equally valid student experience, as well as those who move away.

Her doctoral award will extend her research on student volunteering through considering the contribution of work experience to degree programmes and to enhancing student employability. She is particularly interested in exploring the paradoxes in promoting employability criteria, such as work experience, volunteering work, placement or internships, to large numbers of students. Clare's doctoral award will investigate how best to integrate experience into the curriculum in order to promote employability through enhancing students' learner skills.

The recipients of the 2012 International Scholarship Scheme will undertake specific investigations outside of the UK and deliver specific outcomes for dissemination within the UK sector at the end of the scholarship. The HEA's Doctoral Programme awards form part of the HEA's strategy to undertake research to develop pedagogical knowledge and evidence-based practice in higher education. The research outcomes from the Doctoral studentships will be disseminated throughout UK higher education.

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