A New Materialist approach to exploring minoritised undergraduate students experience of university systems and processes
Dudley, Kate, Johnson, Ben and Parkes, Sarah (2026) A New Materialist approach to exploring minoritised undergraduate students experience of university systems and processes. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 14 (1). pp. 61-86. ISSN 2310-7103
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Abstract
Drawing on a collaborative, student-led research project at a UK university, this study adopted a diffractive methodology (Barad, 2007) to investigate how minoritised students experience the relational, material, and institutional flows of higher education. Through entangling artefact-making, spatial mapping, and collective reflection (Haraway, 1997), five key diffractive patterns shimmered through the inquiry: feedback and assessment, data sharing, relationships, space, and mentoring. Through tracing affective intensities and moments of blockage and flow, the study contributes to literature discussing how minoritised students navigate and reshape their educational landscapes. Anchored in New Materialist theory, and guided by an ethics of care (Noddings, 2013), this article foregrounds student voice not as testimony, but as an active force for institutional insight (Tronto, 1993). It argues that transformation begins not with largescale overhaul, but with attuned practices, ways of listening, noticing, and acting that reimagine belonging as something co-constituted, embodied, and alive.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | School of Education > Early Childhood and Professional Studies |
| Depositing User: | Ms Hazel Barham |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2026 12:35 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2026 12:35 |
| URI: | https://newman.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17416 |
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