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Helen Gunter, Professor

Professor Emerita at University of Manchester

Helen M. Gunter is Professor Emerita in the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and recipient of the BELMAS Distinguished Service Award 2016. Her research focuses on the political sociology of knowledge production in the field of education policy. Her most recent book is A Political Sociology of Education Policy (Policy Press, 2023), and her research has been the focus of a festschrift: Fitzgerald, T. and Courtney, S. J. (Eds.) (2023) Critical Education Policy and Leadership Studies: The Intellectual Contributions of Helen M. Gunter. Springer.

Helen Gunter's contributions

Under surveillance?

On 30 September 2023 the Observer newspaper reported that the UK government has been keeping files on the social media activity of ‘education critics’ and ‘at least nine experts’ have been...

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Blog post21 Feb 2024

A Political Sociology of Education Policy

The provision of and access to school places in England is structured through segregation, and yet influential research takes place without due recognition of how selection and choice operate. For...

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A Political Sociology of Education Policy

The provision of and access to school places in England is structured through segregation, and yet influential research takes place without due recognition of how selection and choice operate. For...

Video25 May 2023