Alexander Hensby is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK.Barbara Adewumi is Senior Research Fellow in Student Success at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Kent, UK..

• 1 Editors’ introduction: Race and the awarding gap.- 2 Race, class, and student choice: Negotiating competing rationalities.- 3 Becoming a higher education student: Managing expectations and adapting to independent learning.- 4 BAME students’ extracurricular belonging at university: building networks, representation, and capital.- 5 Bringing vocational qualifications into the inclusivity agenda: The case of the BTEC.- 6 The role of motivation in student engagement and attainment.- 7 Doing the work: Institutional policy, research, and practice for closing the white-BAME awarding gap.- 8 Academic Advising in the massified university: Facilitating meaningful staff-student interactions.- 9 Reflections on teaching and negotiating race in social work and sociology.- 10 Race equity and inclusive curriculum: Diversity Mark and making a lasting impression on the institution.- 11 Editors’ Conclusion

Alexander Hensby is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK.Barbara Adewumi is Senior Research Fellow in Student Success at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Kent, UK..

• 1 Editors’ introduction: Race and the awarding gap.- 2 Race, class, and student choice: Negotiating competing rationalities.- 3 Becoming a higher education student: Managing expectations and adapting to independent learning.- 4 BAME students’ extracurricular belonging at university: building networks, representation, and capital.- 5 Bringing vocational qualifications into the inclusivity agenda: The case of the BTEC.- 6 The role of motivation in student engagement and attainment.- 7 Doing the work: Institutional policy, research, and practice for closing the white-BAME awarding gap.- 8 Academic Advising in the massified university: Facilitating meaningful staff-student interactions.- 9 Reflections on teaching and negotiating race in social work and sociology.- 10 Race equity and inclusive curriculum: Diversity Mark and making a lasting impression on the institution.- 11 Editors’ Conclusion

Alexander Hensby is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK.Barbara Adewumi is Senior Research Fellow in Student Success at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Kent, UK..

• 1 Editors’ introduction: Race and the awarding gap.- 2 Race, class, and student choice: Negotiating competing rationalities.- 3 Becoming a higher education student: Managing expectations and adapting to independent learning.- 4 BAME students’ extracurricular belonging at university: building networks, representation, and capital.- 5 Bringing vocational qualifications into the inclusivity agenda: The case of the BTEC.- 6 The role of motivation in student engagement and attainment.- 7 Doing the work: Institutional policy, research, and practice for closing the white-BAME awarding gap.- 8 Academic Advising in the massified university: Facilitating meaningful staff-student interactions.- 9 Reflections on teaching and negotiating race in social work and sociology.- 10 Race equity and inclusive curriculum: Diversity Mark and making a lasting impression on the institution.- 11 Editors’ Conclusion