Research Students
Present research students:
Sharon Attard: Lived experiences of cultural diversity in a Maltese primary school (Maltese Government Scholarship).
Harold Herrewegh: Social mobility and education among Turkish migrants in Norway.
Nicole Hoellerer: Bhutanese refugees in resettlement: An ethnographic exploration of Bhutanese refugees in the UK (Brunel Studentship).
Adam Connelly: Schooling and the making of middle class identity in Darjeeling, India; 2010 - 13 (ESRC).
Tanyel Oktar: Educational practices amongst the Turkish Cypriot community (Commonwealth Scholarship).
Past research students:
Ditte Strunge Sass: Research project on how and welfare values and welfare citizens, are generated and encouraged in the Danish Folkeskole (Folk School). Completed 2012.
Nurul Momen Bhuiyan: Research focused on a religious schooling and identity formation processes in rural Bangladesh. Completed 2010.
Sarah Winkler Reid: Researched on the importance of peer relations in the making of subjectivities and the constitution of social difference in a north London secondary school. Completed 2010.
Asa Wahlstrom: Research examining the social support networks of Congolese young people (16 years of age and older) in London. Central to the inquiry were the different activities young people undertook to create a sense of permanence and ‘belonging’ in their new environment. Completed 2008.
Gillian Evans: Research took a developmental perspective to investigate the reproduction of social class position in Bermondsey, south-east London. Completed 2003.
Alison Spiro: Research concerned children growing up in Gujarati speaking British South Asian families in London. Completed 2003.
Ruth Woods: Children’s ideas of selfhood and freewill in a multi-cultural setting in West London (ESRC funded).
Anna-Maija Calderon: Morality, globalisation and personhood among the Mami Wata devotees and their children in Benin, West Africa (sponsored by the Laura Ashley Charitable Foundation).
Joan Walters: The little-understood problems of the large number of London children of Ghanaian descent who suffer from sickle cell anemia.
Juliet Krikeli: Child and personhood in Brent, London – this research was of direct relevance to the work of health visitors.
Maria Higuchi: Concerned urban Brazilian children’s concepts of their environment (funded by INPAS, Brazil); as a result of her work the author has been invited to participate in a 20 year project aimed at improving the environment of a severely disadvantaged community in Para State, Brazil.
