Funded by The British Academy (2021-2024)
Care-Experienced Graduates’ Decision-Making, Choices, and Destinations
About the project
The Care-Experienced Graduates' Decision-Making, Choices and Destinations project ran from September 2021 to August 2024, and was funded by The British Academy. It is the first research project to provide qualitative attention to graduate transitions among care-experienced people.
This project explored care-experienced graduates transitions out of higher education and into employment and/or further study in England and Scotland. It sought to understand: 1) The influences that informed care-experienced graduates' decision-making and choices about their graduate pathways and destinations; 2) what enabled and constrained their transitions out of higher education and into employment and/or further study, and 3) what role they perceived their care histories as having in their choices and destinations, as well as how these contributed to the enablements and constraints they encountered when transitioning into and through their graduate lives.
To do this, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with care-experienced people when they were in their final year of higher education (Phase One). Participants were then re-interviewed at six (Phase Two), and 12 months post-graduation (Phase Three). Throughout each phase, participants also recorded their decisions, choices, experiences, and reflections in a secure online diary.
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Project reports and releases
Reports and outputs from the project can be accessed via the Project Releases page.
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Journal articles produced from the project are listed on my publications page.
