Outputs (97)

Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning (2011)
Journal Article

This paper examines data from three projects to explore the 'hidden costs' of participating in lifelong learning. Whilst other potential risks (financial for instance) are anticipated, those around family and friendship ties are usually not. Adult re... Read More about Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning.

History teaching in England and the English national history curriculum 3-11, past present and into the future (2011)
Journal Article

Widening participation Bristol-fashion: Embedding policy and practice at the Universities of Bristol and the West of England (2011)
Book Chapter

Widening participation Bristol-fashion: Embedding policy and practice at the Universities of Bristol and the West of England (2011)
Book Chapter

Structured Abstract Purpose: The paper reviews, compares and contrasts the experiences of two neighbouring universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, in the introduction, pursuit and institutional embedding... Read More about Widening participation Bristol-fashion: Embedding policy and practice at the Universities of Bristol and the West of England.

Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We blame the parents! A response to 'cultural capital as an explanation of variation in participation in higher education' by John Noble and Peter Davies (British Journal of Sociology of Education 30, no. 5) (2010)
Journal Article

This paper offers a response to a recent article where the authors argue cultural capital is the only determinant of the propensity of young people to seek to enter higher education, dismissing other indicators such as social class. This response que... Read More about We blame the parents! A response to 'cultural capital as an explanation of variation in participation in higher education' by John Noble and Peter Davies (British Journal of Sociology of Education 30, no. 5).

'I lived down the road from you': exploring power and identity, then and now. (2010)
Book Chapter

The focus of this chapter is not on the substantive findings of research (published elsewhere) but on the interplay of autobiography with the life histories of others - the participant interviewees of the research. The chapter considers the research... Read More about 'I lived down the road from you': exploring power and identity, then and now..

Changing identities through re-engagement with education narrative accounts from two women learners (2010)
Book Chapter

Life history and narrative research revisited (2010)
Book Chapter

Researching learning in and out of school: A narradigmatic approach (2010)
Book Chapter

This chapter reports on empirical data collected as part of an ESRC funded project as part of the TLRP entitled 'Home-school knowledge exchange in primary education'. The data form part of a qualitative case study exploring out of school learning of... Read More about Researching learning in and out of school: A narradigmatic approach.

Changing identities through re-engagement with education: Two narrative accounts (2010)
Book Chapter

Parents, partners and peers: The hidden costs of lifelong learning (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Education, equality and the European social model (2009)
Book Chapter

Social welfare and education have been themes in European collaboration since the early days of the Treaty of Rome. Especially after the establishment in 2000 of the Lisbon agenda the EU has stepped up its efforts in these two areas and has integrate... Read More about Education, equality and the European social model.

Pupils perceptions of cultural diversity in the scope of history teaching
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A balancing act: Blending local, regional, national, European and global contexts (2009)
Book Chapter

Changing class and gendered identities through re-engaging with education: Tensions revealed in narrative accounts from two studies of adult returners (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Leisure in the landscape: Rural incomes and public benefits (2008)
Book Chapter