Rachel Brooks
Collaborator
Rachel Brooks is Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Education at Oxford and current President of the British Sociological Association. She is also chair of the executive editors of the British Journal of Sociology of Education, a member of the editorial team of the journal Sociology, and co-editor of the “Research into Higher Education” book series, published by Routledge and the Society for Research into Higher Education. She is a member of governing council of the Economic and Social Research Council, and was a member of the education sub-panel for the UK’s national research assessment exercise (REF2021).
Her research focuses primarily on the sociology of higher education. Particular areas of expertise include international student mobility (and processes of internationalisation and Europeanisation in higher education more generally); student politics and protest; and ensuring equity in access to and outcomes within higher education..​
Recent Publications
Brooks, R. et Rensimer, L. (2025). European higher education actors’ responses to the Ukraine conflict: geopolitical spatial imaginaries. Journal of Education Policy, 40(1), 111-125.
Brooks, R. & Waters, J. (2024). Global Britain and cosmopolitan nationalism. Discourse. Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 46(1), 8-24.
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.
Brooks, R. & Timms, J. (2024). Institutional constraints to higher education datafication: An English case study. Higher Education, 4 décembre.
Brooks, R., Fu, J. & Maire, Q. (2024). Life satisfaction and work-life balance: The complexities of gender patterning. Sociological Research Online, 5 décembre.
Rensimer, L. & Brooks, R. (2024). The European Universities Initiative: Further stratification in the pursuit of European cooperation? Compare, 55(4), 660-678.
Lee, J., Brooks, R. & Abrahams, J. (2024). Students, community and belonging: An investigation of student experience across six European countries. Higher Education Research and Development, 43(4), 906-921.
Brooks, R. & Timms, J. (2024). Widening participation to sandwich courses: Temporal challenges. Studies in Higher Education, 49(11), 2222-2234.
Waters, J. & Brooks, R. (2024). The art of internationalisation: ‘Unstrategic’ dialogical cosmopolitanism within secondary schools in England. Social and Cultural Geography, 25(2), 316-337.
Gupta, A., Brooks, R. & Abrahams, J. (2024). Higher education students as consumers: A cross-country comparative analysis of students’ views. Compare, 55(2), 174-191.
Brooks, R. & Waters, J. (2023). An analysis of the UK’s Turing Scheme as a response to socio-economic and geo-political challenges. Higher Education, 88, 1809-1827.
Brooks, R. & Rensimer, L. (2023). The European Universities Initiative and European spatial imaginaries. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 23(3), 752-765.
Brooks, R. (2023). Higher education studies today and for the future: A UK perspective. British Journal of Educational Studies, 71(5), 517-535.
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S. & Lainio, A. (2023). Constructing ‘ideal’ students within contemporary higher education: Editorial introduction. International Studies in the Sociology of Education, 32(1), 1-10.
Brooks, R., Gupta, A. & Jayadeva, S. (2023). Higher education students’ aspirations for their post-university lives: Evidence from six European nations. Children’s Geographies, 21(2), 177-190.
Hodkinson, P. & Brooks, R. (2023). Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change. British Journal of Sociology, 74(1), 35-49.
Affiliation
University of Oxford