Education Identities and Social Inclusion (EISI)
Research within EISI focuses on the interrelationships between education, identities and processes of social inclusion and exclusion.
This includes work on gay-friendly educational institutions and inclusive education; policies to support ‘student parents’ within higher education; the prevalence and nature of bullying in schools; strategies to promote mental health and wellbeing and the relationship between international educational mobility and social reproduction.
Current research is concerned with:
- The impact of identities on teachers’ engagement with professional development;
- The ways in which the identities of student teachers change over the period of initial teacher education; the formation of ‘cosmopolitan’ identities amongst internationally mobile students and staff;
- Pupils’ understandings of culture and identity;
- The construction of sexual identities within educational settings.
The New EISI Project: 'The role of Celebrity in Young People's Classed and Gendered Aspirations' (funded by the ESRC)
The Research Team for the CelebYouth Project
