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I am currently PhD Programme Director, at the School of Education, University of Bristol. I teach and supervise across Undergraduate, Masters, EdD and PhD portfolios. Before I completed a PhD in Sociology of Education at the IoE, UCL, in London, I was a Secondary School teacher in schools in challenging circumstances for over 15 years, and an Initial Teacher Education with Teach First for 5 years.
Key Research Interests: I am drawn to students being failed by neoliberal schooling, those who struggle to fit within the constraints of accepted norms, who become disengaged, subjected to overly harsh and rigid behaviour-management systems, those withdrawn from class, excluded from school or who opt out through truancy or de-registration. These wonderful students, their complex and nuanced educational trajectories, their experiences, perspectives, thoughts and ideas, as well as their passions, success and hopes, underpin my research agenda. I research problems of educational marginalization, disengagement and exclusion and solutions involving critical pedagogy, critical eco-pedagogy and critical hope. Much of my research is ethnographic, spending time in the field, slowly, and I prefer a grounded theory approach to analysis to allow the voices of the marginalised to shine through. I am drawn to critical pedagogies, and critical eco-pedagogies, their limitations and possibilities, within and outside the classroom, and in nature. I explore educations key role in tackling social and climate injustice together.