Emma Wainwright

Academic qualifications

• MA (Aberdeen)
• PGCE Secondary (Edinburgh)
• PhD (St Andrews)
• PGCHE (Brunel)

Committee responsibilities

• Communications and Website working groups

Admin responsibilities

• Marketing officer
• Newsletter editor
• Reading group coordinator

Teaching responsibilities

BA Social Work

• Social Policy
• Supported Learning
• Practice seminars
• Dissertation students

MA Social Work

• Social Policy
• Research Methods
• Dissertation students

MA Children Youth and International Development

• Dissertation students 

PhD supervision

• Frank Offer (Doctorate of Education student): post-16 education reform and school leaving age
• Yusi Cheng (PhD student): learning sustainable development through music in secondary schools

Research interests

• Social, historical and cultural geography
• Gender, education and geography
• Women, work and the welfare state
• Gendered geographies of lifelong learning
• Social policy and the geographies of care
• Urban geographies of the industrial and contemporary city
  

Research centres

• Centre for Human Geography (CHG)
• Centre for Child and Youth Research (CCYR)

Research projects and grants

• Supporting 'first-in-family' students through university, funded by Learning and Teaching Innovation fund, Brunel University - £4,280 (with M Watts)
• Representations of the urban in 'new' city guides (with M Degen)
• The body-training choices, expectations and experiences of mothers in West London, funded by the ESRC First Grants Scheme - £211,815
• Meanings of work, learning and motherhood in family learning, funded by the British Academy - £7,264 Final report
• An analysis of the learning needs and experiences of students with dependent children at Brunel University, funded by the Curriculum Innovation Fund, Brunel University - £7,888 (with E Marandet) Final report
• Women's progression through training: from socialisation to qualification, funded by the London West LSC - £52,038 (with S Buckingham, E Marandet and F Smith)
• The training needs of women with children under five, funded by ESF for the London West LSC (with S Buckingham, E Marandet and F Smith)
• Regulatory geographies of women, work and the formative welfare state in Dundee, c. 1870-1930

Membership and affiliation

• Member of the ESRC Peer Review College
• Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society 
• Member of Scottish Royal Geographical Society
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Publications

Journal Papers

(2011) Smith, F., Wainwright, E., Buckingham, S. and Marandet, E., Women, work-life balance and quality of life: case studies from the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Gender, Place and Culture 18 603- 610

(2011) Wainwright, E., Marandet, E., Buckingham, S. and Smith, F., The training-to-work trajectory: pressures for and subversions to participation in the neoliberal learning market in the UK, Gender, Place and Culture 18 (5) : 635- 654

(2011) Wainwright, E., Marandet, E. and Rizvi, S., The means of correct training: Embodied regulation in training for body work among mothers, Sociology of Health and Illness 33 (2) : 220- 236

(2011) Wainwright, E. and Marandet, E., Geographies of family learning and aspirations of belonging, CHILDRENS GEOGRAPHIES 9 (1) : 95- 109

(2010) Wainwright, E., Marandeta, E., Smith, F. and Rizvi, S., The microgeographies of learning bodies and emotions in the 'classroom-salon', Emotion, Space and Society 3 (2) : 80- 89

(2010) Wainwright, E. and Marandet, E., Parents in higher education: Impacts of university learning on the self and the family, Educational Review 62 (4) : 449- 465

(2010) Marandet, E. and Wainwright, E., Invisible experiences: Understanding the choices and needs of university students with dependent children, British Educational Research Journal 36 (5) : 787- 805

(2010) Wainwright, E., Buckingham, S., Marandet, E. and Smith, F., 'Body training': Investigating the embodied training choices of/for mothers in West London, Geoforum 41 (3) : 489- 497

(2010) Degen, M. and Wainwright, E., Wallpaper* city guides and gendering the urban aesthetic, Tourist Studies 10 (2) : 155- 174

(2009) Marandet, E. and Wainwright, E., Discourses of integration and exclusion: equal opportunities for university students with dependent children?, Space and Polity 13 (2) : 109- 125

(2009) Wainwright, E., Manufacturing space: Gendered cityscapes and industrial images in Dundee, Environment and Planning A 41 (2) : 336- 352 Download publication

(2009) Revell, A. and Wainwright, E., What makes lectures 'unmissable'? Insights into teaching excellence and active learning, Journal of Geography in Higher Education 33 (2) : 209- 223 Download publication

(2008) Smith, F., Barker, J., Wainwright, E., Marandet, E. and Buckingham, S., A new deal for lone parents? Training lone parents for work in West London, Area 40 (2) : 237- 244

(2007) Wainwright, EM., Constructing gendered workplace ‘types': The weaver-millworker distinction in Dundee's jute industry, c.1880-1910, Gender, Place & Culture 14 (4) : 467- 482 Download publication

(2007) Wainwright, EM., Detailing spaces and processes of resistance: Working women in Dundee's jute industry, Geoforum 38 (4) : 688- 697 Download publication

(2006) Buckingham, S., Marandet, E., Smith, F., Wainwright, E. and Diosi, M., The liminality of training spaces: places of private/public transitions, Geoforum 37 (6) : 895- 905 Download publication

(2005) Wainwright, EM., Dundee's jute mills and factories: Spaces of production, surveillance and discipline, Scottish Geographical Journal 121 (2) : 121- 140 Download publication

(2003) Wainwright, E., "Constant medical supervision": Locating reproductive bodies in Victorian and Edwardian Dundee, Health & Place 9 (2) : 163- 174

Book Chapters

(2008) Wainwright, E. and Ansell, N., Geographies of sports development: The role of space and place. In: Girginov, V. ed. Management of Sports Development. London : Elsevier 183- 200 Download publication

Other publications

Book chapter:

Wainwright, E. and Ansell, N. (2008) Geographies of sports development: the role of space and place, in V Girginov (ed) Management of Sports Development (Elsevier, London)

Reports:

Wainwright, E., Marandet, E. and Rizvi, S. (2009) The body-training choices, expectations and experiences of mothers in West London (Brunel University)

Wainwright and Marandet, E. (2007) A qualitative study of mothers' experiences of family learning in West London (Brunel University)  

Wainwright, E. and Manradet, E. (2006) An analysis of the learning needs and experiences of students with dependent children (Brunel University)  

Buckingham, S., Diosi, M., Marandet, E., Smith, F. and Wainwright, E. (2005) Women's progression through training: from socialisation to qualification,  a report for the London West LSC

Buckingham, S., Marandet, E., Smith, F. and Wainwright, E. (2004) The training needs of women with children under five, a report for the London West LSC