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It was never Sophie’s ambition to study at university. A lifelong lover of performing arts and theatre, her aspiration has always been, and remains, to be an actor. Sophie offers this information within the first five minutes of her first interview. Her decision to study at university is, in fact, part of a longstanding negotiation with her parents, who are happy to support Sophie in her acting career as long as she agrees to pursue a degree first so that she will ‘always have something to fall back on, a Plan B if you will.’
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Finn, K. (2015). Higher Education and Personal Life: A Relational Approach. In: Personal Life, Young Women and Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137319739_2
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