Research
Research
Themes, projects and key publications
Themes, projects and key publications
Gupta, A. (2024). Coached habitus: Mapping the role of shadow education in shaping students’ educational trajectories. British Educational Research Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4085. [Link]
Project Info: This project was funded through research budgets internally distributed at the University of Southampton.
Gupta, A. & Zhao, X. (2023). Teachers’ work under responsibilising policies: An analysis of educators’ views on China’s 2021 educational reforms. Journal of Education Policy. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2023.2236067. [Link]
Project Info: This project was developed in association with post-graduate students at the University of Southampton.
Gupta, A. (2023). Revisiting educational advantage and social class: A Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education. British Journal of Sociology of Education. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2022.2126824. [Link]
Gupta, A. (2023). The nature and scope of English private tutoring: an analysis of the shadowing process and middle-class identity in globalising India. In K. Yung & A. Hajar (Eds.) International Perspectives on English Private Tutoring: Theories, Practices and Policies, Hong Kong: Palgrave Macmillan. [Link]
Gupta, A. (2022). Middle-class mothers’ participation in tutoring for spoken English: A case of unlocking middle-class identity and privilege in contemporary India. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2022.2131738. [Link]
Gupta, A. (2022). A ‘Shadow education’ timescape: An empirical investigation of the temporal arrangement of private tutoring vis-à-vis formal schooling in India. British Journal of Educational Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2021.2024137. [Link]
Gupta, A. (2022). Social legitimacy of private tutoring: an investigation of institutional and affective educational practices in India. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 43(4), 571-584. [Link]
Gupta, A. (2021) Exposing the ‘shadow’: An empirical scrutiny of the ‘shadowing process’ of private tutoring in India, Educational Review. DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2021.1931038. [Link]
Gupta, A. (2021). Teacher-entrepreneurialism: A case of teacher identity formation in neoliberalizing education space in contemporary India. Critical Studies in Education, 62(4), 422-438. [Link]
Gupta, A. (2020). Heterogeneous middle-class and disparate educational advantage: parental investment in their children’s schooling in Dehradun, India, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41(1), 48-63. [Link]
Project Info: This was my PhD project, funded by the Lee Kong Chian Scholarship, Faculty of Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.
Gupta, A. (2024). When generative artificial intelligence meets academic integrity: Educational opportunities and challenges in a digital age. British Educational Research Association. https://www.bera.ac.uk/publication/when-generative-artificial-intelligence-meets-academic-integrity [Part of series: Education in a digital age: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports]
Project Info: I was this project's Principal Investigator/Lead Researcher, funded by the British Educational Research Association.
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, A., Lainio, A. and Lazetic, P. (2022) Constructing the Higher Education Student: Perspectives from across Europe, Bristol, Policy Press. [Link]
Gupta, A., Brooks, R. and Abrahams, J. (2023). Higher education students as consumers: A cross-country comparative analysis of students’ views in Europe. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2023.2234283. [Link]
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S., Abrahams, J., & Lažetić, P. (2021). Students as political actors? Similarities and differences across six European nations. British Educational Research Journal, 46(6), 1193-1209. [Link]
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S., Abrahams, J. (2021). Students’ views about the purpose of higher education: a comparative analysis of six European countries. Higher Education Research & Development, 40(7), 1375-1388. [Link]
Brooks, R., Abrahams, J., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S. & Lažetić, P. (2021). Higher education timescapes: temporal understandings of students and learning. Sociology, 55(5), 995-1014. [Link]
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S. (2021) Higher education students’ aspirations for their post-university lives: evidence from six European nations, Children’s Geographies (Special Issue: ‘The Place of Aspirations’: Young People’s Socio-spatial (Im)mobilities). DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2021.1934403. [Link]
Project Info: This project was funded by the European Research Council and led by Professor Rachel Brooks; I was a Research fellow, responsible for the student strand [focus groups with 295 students across countries].
Gupta, A. & Zhao, X. (2023). Teachers’ work under responsibilising policies: An analysis of educators’ views on China’s 2021 educational reforms. Journal of Education Policy. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2023.2236067. [Link]
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, A., Lainio, A. and Lazetic, P. (2022) Constructing the Higher Education Student: Perspectives from across Europe, Bristol, Policy Press. [Link]
Gupta, A., Brooks, R. and Abrahams, J. (2023). Higher education students as consumers: A cross-country comparative analysis of students’ views in Europe. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2023.2234283. [Link]
Gupta, A. (2021). Teacher-entrepreneurialism: A case of teacher identity formation in neoliberalizing education space in contemporary India. Critical Studies in Education, 62(4), 422-438. [Link]
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S., Abrahams, J. (2021). Students’ views about the purpose of higher education: a comparative analysis of six European countries. Higher Education Research & Development, 40(7), 1375-1388. [Link]
Brooks, R., Abrahams, J., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S. & Lažetić, P. (2021). Higher education timescapes: temporal understandings of students and learning. Sociology, 55(5), 995-1014. [Link]
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