Dr Rille Raaper rille.raaper@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Student support as social network: Exploring non-traditional student experiences of academic and wellbeing support during the Covid-19 pandemic
Raaper, R.; Brown, C.; Llewellyn, A.
Authors
C. Brown
Dr Anna Llewellyn a.e.llewellyn@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a global crisis in higher education, affecting all aspects of university work and practices. This article focuses on student experiences in particular by problematising academic and wellbeing support available to non-traditional students. The article proposes an original approach to student support as comprising social networks that are dynamic, reciprocal and involving a variety of formal/informal actors. We draw on interviews with 10 non-traditional students from a UK university to explore the nature of their student support. Our findings suggest that support networks for non-traditional students tend to exclude formal support services, and centre primarily around family (wellbeing support) and fellow students (academic/wellbeing support). While the findings problematise the lack of institutional support in student networks which is likely to further disadvantage these students, it questions the dominant deficit views of non-traditional students. In particular, the interviews highlight the resourcefulness of close interactions and emphasise the importance of approaching student support as a dynamic network of informal and formal actors when responding to the crisis situations such as the Covid-19 pandemic.
Citation
Raaper, R., Brown, C., & Llewellyn, A. (2022). Student support as social network: Exploring non-traditional student experiences of academic and wellbeing support during the Covid-19 pandemic. Educational Review, 74(3), 402-421. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1965960
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 5, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 15, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2022 |
Deposit Date | Aug 6, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 15, 2021 |
Journal | Educational Review |
Print ISSN | 0013-1911 |
Electronic ISSN | 1465-3397 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 74 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 402-421 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1965960 |
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