As part of the Connect Benefits Series on Student Success Advance HE will publish a literature review on employability, 2016-21, which aims to identify specific impact and evidence in relation to embedding employability within higher education.
This short podcast series offers a preview of the dominant themes emerging from the review undertaken by the research team from Oxford Brookes University. In this fourth podcast, Dr Maia Pal, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Oxford Brookes University is joined by Dr Shirley Shipman, Principal Lecturer (Student Experience) and Programme Lead (Law), Oxford Brookes University to discuss the aspects of the literature review focusing on inequalities and differential opportunities of employability.
In particular, Dr Shipman discusses the impact of employability interventions explored in the literature, which highlight the potential for interventions to perpetuate inequalities for disadvantaged student groups, as well as the plurality of types of human capital and their impact in successful entry into the labour market.
Advance HE members can download the inequalities and differential opportunities here
Listen to the first podcast in the series on Measuring and Measures of Employability
Listen to the second podcast in the series on Entrepreneurship and Work-integrated Learning here
Listen to the third episode on critiques of employability here
Find out more about the Student Success Connect Benefit Series
The literature review on employability, 2016-21, is supplemented by a number of events and activities including a webinar for Advance HE members on 14 October 2021. Register your interest here