Publications

Our project outputs will be updated here in due time. Below are relevant previous research:

• Chiu, Y.L.T., Wong, B., Murray, O.M., Horsburgh, J., & Copsey-Blake, M. (2025). ‘I deserve to be here’: Minority ethnic students and their conditional belonging in UK higher education. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01469-1

• Wong, B., & Chiu, Y.L.T. (2025). Beyond concrete walls? Exploring student belonging through university campus spaces. In: Ahn, M.Y., Venn, E., & Lowe, T. (Eds). Student Belonging in Higher Education: Perspectives and Practice. Routledge. See here.

• Wong, B. (2024). Exploring the Spatial Belonging of Students in Higher Education. Studies in Higher Education, 49(3), 546-558 https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2023.2243285 

• Wong, B., Copsey-Blake, M., & ElMorally, R. (2024). ‘Barriers to belonging for racially minoritised students in STEM higher education’ (p. 143-162) in C. Kandiko Howson and M. Kingsbury (eds.) Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education. UCL Press. See here.

• Wong, B., Chiu, Y.L.T., Murray, O.M., Horsburgh, J., & Copsey-Blake, M. (2023). Biology is easy, physics is hard’: Student perceptions of the ideal and the typical student across STEM higher education. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 32(1), 118-139 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2022.2122532

• Wong, B., DeWitt, J., & Chiu, Y.L.T. (2023). Mapping the eight dimensions of the ideal student in higher education. Educational Review, 75(2), 153-171 https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1909538

• Wong, B. & Chiu, Y.L.T. (2021). Exploring the concept of ‘ideal’ university student. Studies in Higher Education, 46(2), 497-508 https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1643302