Young People Making it Work examines a generation's lives in rural Australia over the last
two decades. Against a backdrop of dramatic social, economic and environmental change …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate challenges of building entrepreneurial
ecosystems in peripheral places. The entrepreneurial ecosystem concept is developing a …

This paper documents the voices of Australian rural students as a means of examining
students' views of the obstacles confronting them in their endeavours to fulfil the aspirations …

Insight into the challenges for women entrepreneurship engagement is significantly lacking
in the context of Rural, Regional and Remote (RRR) communities. Evidence suggests that a …

The last two decades have seen a significant growth of research studies concerned with
young people living in rural places with a strong focus on social and economic inequalities …

Indigenous Australians have been known to be disadvantaged in many ways although
higher art and physical self-concepts have been reported with Indigenous samples. Given …

Widening higher education participation can deliver benefits to individuals, societies and
economies but rural populations experience factors which inhibit their aspiration for and …

In the literature on educational inequality, differences between rural and urban locations
receive little attention. Yet, in many systems, inequalities of place are both persistent and …

This paper investigates regional Australian students' aspirations and expectations for their
future and, more specifically, the manner in which these are formulated around a view to …

One popular view of student achievement is that the quality of teaching students receive
plays an important part in whether or not they do well at school. In this article we draw …