All Outputs (32)

Embedding early intervention at the heart of alternative provision (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Embedding Early Intervention at the Heart of Alternative Provision - Opportunities, Challenges and Future Pathways.

How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: trends, gaps and implications for practice (2024)
Journal Article

This article examines how theory features in the research literatures concerning the English alternative (education) provision (AP) sector. Despite increasing interest over the past decade in how AP can (re)engage school-aged young people in learning... Read More about How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: trends, gaps and implications for practice.

Joining the dots? Special education and alternative provision (2024)
Journal Article

The English mass state education system, developing over 150 years, has created subsystems for children and young people who had difficulty in functioning at or beyond 'mainstream' schooling, or whose behaviour was deemed inappropriate. While many de... Read More about Joining the dots? Special education and alternative provision.

Beyond the beautiful game (2024)
Book Chapter

Football has always been rooted in working-class culture and celebrated within working-class communities. Criticism of today’s game typically focuses on the capitalisation of some leagues, and football’s growing distance from its own roots. Yet, it r... Read More about Beyond the beautiful game.

Class Action (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine

People with a working-class heritage can face deeply entrenched normative and attitudinal barriers in and through education. Yet, they remain a comparatively overlooked social group in academic studies, even with those employing intersectional analys... Read More about Class Action.

Outcomes beyond evaluation: The impetus and measure of relationships within alternative provisions (2023)
Journal Article

In the context of rising interest in Alternative Provisions (APs) amongst policymakers and researchers in England, this article examines social capital and accountability in this ‘new’ field of enquiry. APs stress the value of supportive relationship... Read More about Outcomes beyond evaluation: The impetus and measure of relationships within alternative provisions.

The pupil referral unit to prison pipeline (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Both school exclusion, poverty and disability are prospective markers for increased risk of subsequent contact with criminal justice system in general and justice-involved samples. However, relationships between school exclusion and these factors hav... Read More about The pupil referral unit to prison pipeline.

‘Out of sight, out of mind’: The rise of unregistered alternative provision (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine

Thousands of children are being educated in unregistered alternative provision where teachers require neither qualifications nor criminal record checks. This Schools Week article investigates unregulated institutions, which are not inspected by Ofste... Read More about ‘Out of sight, out of mind’: The rise of unregistered alternative provision.

Barriers in higher education and youth disadvantage (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, London. NIW session

The relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper is based on qualitative data gained from young working-class men with disabilities on the margins of Alternative Provisions (APs), located within a medium sized local authority in England. Young males are disproportionately placed into APs... Read More about The relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision.

Relationships on the margins of alternative provision (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A style of work in education that prioritises the maintenance of helpful staff-student relations would hardly seem contentious. Such work might even be considered as crucial within settings that specifically set out to cater for students in the after... Read More about Relationships on the margins of alternative provision.

The Other Side of the Bridge: Disability, Class and Social Exclusion (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Absence of value - Masculinity, disability and class in alternative provision (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper, I explore aspects of alternative provision (AP), education settings created to provide short-term support for school-aged young people in England excluded from or unable to be placed in ‘regular’ schools. AP is an element of the
Engli... Read More about Absence of value - Masculinity, disability and class in alternative provision.

How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: Trends, gaps and implications for practice (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines how theory features in the research literatures concerning the English alternative provision (AP) sector. Despite increasing interest over the past decade in how AP can (re)engage school-aged young people in learning, there has be... Read More about How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: Trends, gaps and implications for practice.

Youth options: A report in to current and future practice of alternative educational provision (2023)
Report

This document reports the findings and suggestions made by researchers at The University of Winchester and the University of the West of England regarding current and future practice at Youth Options. The research explored ‘what works’ in creating a... Read More about Youth options: A report in to current and future practice of alternative educational provision.

Other lives: Relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision (2023)
Journal Article

This article draws on a qualitative data analysis of the experiences of a small group of so-called ‘hard-to-reach’ disabled young men in Alternative Provisions (APs). Supporting young people has largely focused on the use of professional intervention... Read More about Other lives: Relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision.

Absence of value (2022)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, we explore aspects of alternative provision (AP), education settings created to provide short-term support for school-aged young people in England excluded from or unable to be placed in ‘regular’ schools. AP is an element of the Eng... Read More about Absence of value.

‘Where are all the men?’ Working-class male students and care-based degrees (2021)
Journal Article

This article draws on data from a small qualitative study of men on care-based degree pathways in one university in England. There is little research that specifically considers the experiences of working-class men on these courses. The article explo... Read More about ‘Where are all the men?’ Working-class male students and care-based degrees.

Paradoxes of playwork practice in an English primary school (2020)
Book Chapter

Neoliberal reforms of public services across Europe and the world are rewriting the contract amongst the state, the citizen and the market in new ways. These global shifts create and reformulate networks and approaches, creating ‘new’ professions and... Read More about Paradoxes of playwork practice in an English primary school.

Dis/locating Imagined Futures: The disabled habitus and young disabled people in alternative provision (2020)
Journal Article

This article considers the disabled habitus and a small group of young disabled people who are attending an Alternative Provision (AP), within one English Further Education College. The aim of this article is to understand the significance of the bod... Read More about Dis/locating Imagined Futures: The disabled habitus and young disabled people in alternative provision.