Dr. Rachel Brooks

Biography

Rachel Brooks is a Professor of Higher Education at Linacre College, University of Oxford. She serves as the current President of the British Sociological Association and has taken on leading editorial roles such as chair of executive editors for the British Journal of Sociology of Education and co-editor for the ‘Research in Higher Education’ book series published by Routledge. Rachel has also been an active member of various educational panels focused on sociology, overseeing quality assessments and guiding policy-making in the realm of higher education. Her research interests lie predominantly in student politics, particularly through an ESRC-funded project investigating whether higher education politicizes students. Rachel has conducted extensive research on international student mobilities and has contributed to notable publications, investigating how concepts of 'the international' are understood within student migration contexts. She is currently involved in examining equity in higher education and has received funding from the Sutton Trust to explore intergenerational mobility tied to educational access.

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