All Outputs (9)

The Unhomely of Homeschooling (2022)
Journal Article

Despite increasing global popularity perceptions of homeschooling remain problematic. It resists trends towards mass compulsory education and the promotion of children’s rights; it challenges the state’s authority to educate citizens; and raises conc... Read More about The Unhomely of Homeschooling.

The impact of COVID‐19 on A Level exams in England: Students as consumers (2022)
Journal Article

The recent global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic created significant challenges for society, not least for education. England went into lockdown in March 2020; following this, A Level exams were cancelled and the Department for Education announced... Read More about The impact of COVID‐19 on A Level exams in England: Students as consumers.

Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education (2022)
Journal Article

The use of zero-hours contracts (ZHCs) has been associated with the transfer of risk away from corporate employers and towards individual employees. In universities increasing numbers of teaching staff are employed on such contracts. Academics from B... Read More about Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education.

Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities (2021)
Journal Article

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s analysis of the competition for economic, social and cultural capitals within educational fields, this article reports empirical research from 49 in-depth interviews with graduate students at four elite universities in th... Read More about Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities.

Routes through higher education: BME students and the development of a ‘specialisation of consciousness’ (2020)
Journal Article

With changing demographics and the advent of mass higher education, there has been a significant impact on graduate transitions which has led to greater inequalities in access to social support during the transitionary period between undergraduate st... Read More about Routes through higher education: BME students and the development of a ‘specialisation of consciousness’.

An inheritance of exclusion: Roma education, genetics and the turn to biosocial solutions (2019)
Journal Article

Since the 1990s an increasing body of genetic studies of Roma people has been conducted and used to understand their lives. This includes research on health issues such as genetic predispositions to obesity or high cholesterol levels and the migratio... Read More about An inheritance of exclusion: Roma education, genetics and the turn to biosocial solutions.

Muslims, home education and risk in British society (2018)
Journal Article

The number of families who choose to home educate has significantly increased in the last decade. This article explores the experiences of British Muslims who home educate using data from a larger study exploring the views of a diverse range of famil... Read More about Muslims, home education and risk in British society.

Gypsy students in the UK: the impact of ‘mobility’ on education (2017)
Journal Article

This paper argues that Gypsy students in primary and secondary education in the UK are marginalised because of ambiguous understandings of their ‘mobility’. Drawing on research conducted on the south coast of England, it examines Gypsy families’ expe... Read More about Gypsy students in the UK: the impact of ‘mobility’ on education.

Marginal groups in marginal times: Gypsy and Traveller parents and home education in England, UK (2015)
Journal Article

This article examines the experiences of home education for Gypsy and Traveller groups in England, UK. We argue that home education is perceived in a particular historical ‘moment’ characterised in the media and more generally throughout society by ‘... Read More about Marginal groups in marginal times: Gypsy and Traveller parents and home education in England, UK.