Part 1: Key Issues -- 1 An International Perspective On Researching Widening Access, Michael Osborne And Jim Gallacher -- 2 Researching Widening Access: An Overview, Peter Scott -- 3 Researching Access In A Rapidly Changing Context: Experiences From Higher Education In South Africa, Shirley Walters -- 4 Looking Through The Kaleidoscope: Diversification, Accessibility And Inequality In Scottish Higher Education, Brenda Morgan-klein And Mark Murphy -- 5 Discourses Of Access: Changing Views In A Changing World, David Boud -- 6 Widening Access And Literacy, Joseph Lo Bianco -- 7 Widening Access For The Education Of Adults In The United States, Juanita Johnson-bailey And Ronald M -- Cervero -- 8 E-learning And Access: Getting Behind The Hype, Jo Barraket -- 9 Access As More: Issues Of Student Performance Retention And Institutional Change, Hunter R -- Boylan -- 10 After Access: Researching Labour Market Issues, Ewart Keep Part 2: Methodological Issues 1 -- 1 Participatory Paradigms: Researching 'with' Rather Than 'on', Ram�n Flecha And Jes's G�mez 12 -- Questions Of Access And Participation: Some Contributions From Qualitative Research, Beth Crossan And Michael Osborne 13 -- Biography And Narratives: Adult Returners To Learning, Barbara Merrill And Peter Alheit 14 -- Counting Access: Problems And Puzzles, Alasdair Forsyth And Andy Furlong 15 -- E-learning, Marginalized Communities And Social Capital: A Mixed Method Approach, Sara Ferlander 16 -- Organisation Behaviour, Research And Access, Chris Duke 17 -- The Case Study Approach To Research In Adult Literacy, Numeracy And Esol, Rob Mark 18 -- Researching Widening Access: The Future Agenda, Jim Gallacher And Beth Crossan. Michael Osborne, Jim Gallacher, And Beth Crossan. Includes Bibliographical References.