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Aline Courtois
Responsible Researcher,
United Kingdom

Dʳ Aline Courtois is Reader in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK and co-editor of the Studies in Sociology of Education journal. She is a member of several research centres, including the Centre for Global Higher Education at Oxford. She is the author of Elite Schooling and Social Inequality. Privilege and Power in Ireland’s Top Private Schools (Palgrave, 2018), co-editor of The Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobility and Immobility. Power, Knowledge and Agency (Bloomsbury, 2025), and has published widely from her research on elite education; internationalisation and student mobility; and academic mobility and precarious work.
Recent Publications
O'Keefe, T. & Courtois, A. (2024). Holding ourselves to account: The precarity dividend and the ethics of researching academic precarity. The Sociological Review, n. p.
Brooks, R., Courtois, A., Faas, D., Jayadeva, S. & Beech, S. (2024). International student mobility within Europe: Responding to contemporary challenges. Higher Education, 88, 1663-1672.
Courtois, A. & O'Keefe, T. (2024). “Go away and make a big thing of yourself somewhere else.” Precarious mobilities and the uses of international capital in Irish academia. Higher Education, 88, 1871-1887.
Donnelly, M., Davies, J., Dickson, M., Courtois, A. & Lazetic, P. (2024). Education and the spatial division of labour: Further education and prospects for ‘Levelling Up’. Contemporary Social Science, 19(4), 1-17.
Ivancheva, M. & Courtois, A. (2024). EdTech-mediated outsourcing and casualisation of academic labour: Toward a research agenda. Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation, 18(1), 65-82.
Courtois, A. & Donnelly, M. (2024). Racial capitalism and the ordinary extractivism of British elite schools overseas. Discourse. Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 45(3), 432-449.
Gamsu, S., Courtois, A. & Boden, R. (2024). The material basis of elite schooling: Capital and the state. Discourse. Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 45(3), 305-324.
Affiliations
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Department of Education, University of Bath
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Centre for Global Higher Education, University of Oxford
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International Centre for Higher Education Management, University of Bath
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Centre for Higher Education Transformation, University of Bristol
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Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l’enseignement supérieur (LIRES)
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