We (Genine Hook, Marie-Pierre Moreau and Rachel Brooks) are putting together an edited volume on student carers in higher education (provisional title: Student Carers in Higher Education: Navigating, resisting and redefining academic cultures). We have been in touch with Routledge who have expressed an interest in this project. We are now in the process of identifying contributors, before submitting a proposal in July 2020.
If our proposal is successful, the proposed collection will map the experiences of student carers in academic cultures across a broad range of institutional and national contexts. The collection favours an inclusive perspective, including work looking at those caring for children, parents and other family members, as well as pets and friends. We are also interested in approaches which highlight the diverse intersectional ways in which student carers experience their dual status.
While we anticipate that the volume will be sociologically-informed, we welcome a broad range of methodological approaches, including auto-ethnographically-based case studies, empirical studies and theoretically informed work. We welcome contributions from scholars at various stages of their career and from various parts of the world, particularly, though not only, First Nations communities and the Global South.
If you are interested, please do send a 250-word abstract, by 30 June, to studentcarers@gmail.com
At this stage, we anticipate that we would need full drafts of chapters by December 2020. Please also note that the abstracts and the full chapters will be subject to a peer-review process and may or may not be accepted for publication.