Nicholson, S.Cleland, J. A.2016-12-072016-12-072017-05Nicholson, S & Cleland, J A 2017, '"It's making contacts" : notions of social capital and implications for widening access to medical education', Advances in Health Sciences Education, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 477-490. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-016-9735-01382-4996http://hdl.handle.net/2164/7834Acknowledgements Our thanks to the Medical Schools Council (MSC) of the UK for funding Study A; REACH Scotland for funding Study B; and Queen Mary University of London, and to the medical school applicants and students who gave their time to be interviewed. Our thanks also to Dr Sean Zhou and Dr Sally Curtis, and Manjul Medhi, for their help with data collection for studies A and B respectively. Our thanks also to Dr Lara Varpio, Uniformed Services University of the USA, for her advice and guidance on collating data sets and her comments on the draft manuscript.14437455engSDG 4 - Quality Educationlower socio-economic groupsmeritocracysocial capitalundergraduate medical educationunder-representationweak ties, bridging and linking capitalwidening accessR MedicineL EducationRLJournal article10.1007/s10459-016-9735-0222