Inclusion Organisation in Universities
This open access book questions whether universities ‘walk the talk’ when it comes to diversifying their student and staff bodies towards including historically underrepresented social groups in higher education. Universities talk inclusion in terms of formally committing to principles of inclusion,...
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| description | This open access book questions whether universities ‘walk the talk’ when it comes to diversifying their student and staff bodies towards including historically underrepresented social groups in higher education. Universities talk inclusion in terms of formally committing to principles of inclusion, equality and diversity and by joining equality charters and engaging with equality legislation and other inclusion-oriented organisations. Using the case study of the UK university sector, the author notes that whilst the empirical evidence for whether commitments work to make universities more demographically diverse is scant, organisational commitments play a role in helping universities meet the demands of a world where individual empowerment and organisational proactiveness are valued. The book proposes that organisational commitments have a ‘two-way function’ i.e., that of including people in universities (Function 1) and that of including universities in the organisational fields in which they operate (Function 2). A theoretical framework and an empirical research programme for investigating these two functions, the synergies and the tensions between them, is outlined. The book draws on a range of primary and secondary statistical data and on sociological institutionalist and organisational theories to move the discussion surrounding the talk and the walk of inclusion beyond rhetoric. It informs academic research in the fields of sociology, organisational studies, higher education and social inequalities. Additionally, the book offers practitioners a tool to understand and evaluate the perceived gap between the talk and the walk in universities when it comes to pursuing inclusion, but also in other settings where organisations formally commit to societal goals. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1696012025-11-29T06:31:18Z Inclusion Organisation in Universities Baltaru, Roxana D. diversity governance equality organisational commitments inclusivity Open Access thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJU Organizational theory and behaviour thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy::JNFK Educational strategies and policy: inclusion thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy This open access book questions whether universities ‘walk the talk’ when it comes to diversifying their student and staff bodies towards including historically underrepresented social groups in higher education. Universities talk inclusion in terms of formally committing to principles of inclusion, equality and diversity and by joining equality charters and engaging with equality legislation and other inclusion-oriented organisations. Using the case study of the UK university sector, the author notes that whilst the empirical evidence for whether commitments work to make universities more demographically diverse is scant, organisational commitments play a role in helping universities meet the demands of a world where individual empowerment and organisational proactiveness are valued. The book proposes that organisational commitments have a ‘two-way function’ i.e., that of including people in universities (Function 1) and that of including universities in the organisational fields in which they operate (Function 2). A theoretical framework and an empirical research programme for investigating these two functions, the synergies and the tensions between them, is outlined. The book draws on a range of primary and secondary statistical data and on sociological institutionalist and organisational theories to move the discussion surrounding the talk and the walk of inclusion beyond rhetoric. It informs academic research in the fields of sociology, organisational studies, higher education and social inequalities. Additionally, the book offers practitioners a tool to understand and evaluate the perceived gap between the talk and the walk in universities when it comes to pursuing inclusion, but also in other settings where organisations formally commit to societal goals. 2025-11-29T06:31:17Z 2025-11-29T06:31:17Z 2025-11-28T12:20:49Z 2026 book ONIX_20251128T131701_9783032021847_30 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/108677 9783032021847 9783032021830 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/169601 eng Education; Education (R0) open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/108677/1/9783032021847.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-032-02184-7 10.1007/978-3-032-02184-7 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 535a97f0-c945-4914-8aa2-2618a6d81a6c a3ad1954-4c9d-450b-b8c3-20ef2df03ac3 9783032021847 9783032021830 Palgrave Macmillan 201 Cham [...] Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health, University of Bergen Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health 10.13039/501100020010 open access |
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