| How fair is access to more prestigious UK universities? V Boliver The British journal of sociology 64 (2), 344-364, 2013 | 564 | 2013 |
| Expansion, differentiation, and the persistence of social class inequalities in British higher education. V Boliver Higher Education 61 (3), 229-242, 2010 | 470 | 2010 |
| The grandparents effect in social mobility: Evidence from British birth cohort studies TW Chan, V Boliver American Sociological Review 78 (4), 662-678, 2013 | 282 | 2013 |
| Are there distinctive clusters of higher and lower status universities in the UK? V Boliver Oxford review of education 41 (5), 608-627, 2015 | 257 | 2015 |
| Exploring ethnic inequalities in admission to Russell Group universities V Boliver Sociology 50 (2), 247-266, 2016 | 189 | 2016 |
| Misplaced optimism: How higher education reproduces rather than reduces social inequality V Boliver British Journal of Sociology of Education 38 (3), 423-432, 2017 | 115 | 2017 |
| Do comprehensive schools reduce social mobility?1 V Boliver, A Swift The British journal of sociology 62 (1), 89-110, 2011 | 108 | 2011 |
| Which are the most suitable contextual indicators for use in widening participation to HE? S Gorard, V Boliver, N Siddiqui, P Banerjee Research Papers in Education 34 (1), 99-129, 2019 | 78 | 2019 |
| Will the use of contextual indicators make UK higher education admissions fairer? V Boliver, S Gorard, N Siddiqui Education Sciences 5 (4), 306-322, 2015 | 54 | 2015 |
| What do we know about Black and minority ethnic (BAME) participation in UK higher education? J Arday, C Branchu, V Boliver Social Policy and Society 21 (1), 12-25, 2022 | 52 | 2022 |
| Education under new labour, 1997–2010 A Heath, A Sullivan, V Boliver, A Zimdars Oxford Review of Economic Policy 29 (1), 227-247, 2013 | 50 | 2013 |
| Admissions in context: The use of contextual information by leading universities V Boliver, C Crawford, M Powell, W Craige | 47 | 2017 |
| Using contextual data to widen access to higher education V Boliver, S Gorard, N Siddiqui Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education 25 (1), 7-13, 2021 | 45 | 2021 |
| Why are British Ethnic Minorities Less Likely to be Offered Places at Highly Selective Universities? in Alexander, C. and Arday, J.(eds) Aiming Higher: Race, Inequality and … V Boliver Runnymede Perspectives, 2015 | 41 | 2015 |
| Performance-based university funding and the drive towards ‘institutional meritocracy’in Italy JL Mateos-González, V Boliver British Journal of Sociology of Education 40 (2), 145-158, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
| Exploring ethnic differences in the post-university destinations of Russell Group graduates L Lessard-Phillips, V Boliver, M Pampaka, D Swain Ethnicities 18 (4), 496-517, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| Lies, damned lies, and statistics on widening access to Russell Group universities V Boliver Radical Statistics, 2016 | 37 | 2016 |
| Second generation attainment and inequality: Primary and secondary effects on educational outcomes in Britain and the United States MC Waters, A Heath, VC Tran, V Boliver The Children of Immigrants at School, 120-159, 2013 | 34 | 2013 |
| Ethnic inequalities in admission to highly selective universities V Boliver Dismantling race in higher education: Racism, whiteness and decolonising the …, 2018 | 32 | 2018 |
| Social inequalities of access to higher status universities in the UK: the role of university admissions decisions V Boliver | 30 | 2006 |
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