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Student Voices, Expertise, and Welfare Within British Universities in the Mid-Twentieth-Century
Everyday Welfare in Modern British History: Experience, Expertise and Activism, Pages: 267 - 288
Swansea University Author:
Sarah Crook
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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/978-3-031-64987-5_12
Abstract
The contemporary student is extensively surveyed about their experiences of university provision and their opinions about the extent to which their institutions attend to their health and welfare. This chapter looks to some of the ways that students articulated their views of university health and w...
| Published in: | Everyday Welfare in Modern British History: Experience, Expertise and Activism |
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| ISBN: | 9783031649868 9783031649875 |
| ISSN: | 2524-8960 2524-8979 |
| Published: |
Cham
Palgrave Macmillan
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63711 |
| Abstract: |
The contemporary student is extensively surveyed about their experiences of university provision and their opinions about the extent to which their institutions attend to their health and welfare. This chapter looks to some of the ways that students articulated their views of university health and welfare provision in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It argues that the National Union of Students (NUS) played a crucial role in ascertaining how institutions could help students to “fare well”, and through its emphasis on its leaders’ temporal proximity to student life it emphasised experiential authority. It also argues that the growth of sociological surveys of students’ experience of welfare and health facilities in the 1960s and 1970s helped to legitimise and embed ideas about the experiential knowledge held across the student body. |
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| Keywords: |
Students; Sociology; Surveys; National Union of Students (NUS); Student health |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Funders: |
Swansea University |
| Start Page: |
267 |
| End Page: |
288 |