Commuter students: What do you need to make a student city work?

Students’ experience is geographical: it happens in accommodation, on public transport, in their GP’s surgery, in work, and in the voting booth. Students and graduates bring economic and cultural benefits to their regions yet they are rarely considered as objects of policy. Susan Kenyon and Joel Dowson draw on research and practice to ask how universities can influence regional policymakers to attract and retain students and graduates.