Publications
Publications
Dr Achala Gupta has >100 publications - see here for the full list.
These are Dr Gupta's recent and key Conceptual-Empirical works, by theme.
Dr Achala Gupta has >100 publications - see here for the full list.
These are Dr Gupta's recent and key Conceptual-Empirical works, by theme.
Shadow education
Gupta, A. (2025). Shadow education. In R.K.Sidhu, Y.Cheng & J.L. Waters (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education (1st ed., pp. 290–293). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [Link]
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]
Winner of the 2025 Professor M. N. Srinivas Memorial Prize by the Indian Sociological Society
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. (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]
Nominated and shortlisted for the 2020 British Journal of Sociology of Education Best Early Career Article
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. (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. (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]
Policy enactment
Gupta, A., & Newman, R. (2025). Re-Centring the School Context in Policy Enactments: An Empirical Investigation into Mentorship Programmes for Early Career Teachers. British Journal of Educational Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2025.2544586 [Link]
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]
Higher education
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]
Winner of 2024 Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group Best Book Award
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. (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]