Professor Kathryn Hoskins
Honorary Professor
Summary
Kate is a Professor in Education with a focus on policy. Her research interests rest on the intersections between education and social policy, identity and inequalities in relation to early years, further and higher education. Her current funded Froebel Trust project with Professor Emma Wainwright, Dr Utsa Mukherjee and Dr Yuwei Xu examines how low income families engage with Froebelian principles. She has published extensively on inequalities in ECEC, with a focus on the role of policy in exacerbating these. Kate's most recent research on social mobility with Professor Bernard Barker examines the role of the family in intra and inter-generational social movement. They take a unique genealogical approach to researching social mobility, using a university chemistry department as a case study to explore participants’ motives for pursuing a STEM undergraduate degree and the influences that have shaped them. Kate has recently completed a British Academy funded research project with Professor Marie-Pierre Moreau and Dr Ellen McHugh to examine the precarious transitions undertaken by doctoral researchers negotiating the shift to an academic post. Kate is a Co-Editor of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ).
Qualifications
PhD (ESRC fully funded scholarship) King's College London
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
MA Education Policy & Society (distinction), King's College London
BA Education Studies (1st class), London Metropolitan University
Awards
2023: BERA Annual Conference – SIG Best Presentation for the Educational Research and Educational-Policy Making SIG.
2019: Shortlisted for the Lecturer of the Year College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences Award.
Responsibility
Interim Director of Research
Director of Internationalisation
Newest selected publications
Mukherjee, U., Hoskins, K. and McHugh, E. (2024) 'The explanatory power of examining race and class in educational settings'. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 34 (1). pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 0962-0214 Open Access Link
Hoskins, K., Wainwright, E., Mukherjee, U., Xu, Y. and Lebbakhar, A. (2024) 'The potential of Froebelian philosophy to support and engage low-income families in the early years'. Place of publication: Froebel Trust. Available at: https://www.froebel.org.uk/research-library/the-potential-of-froebelian-philosophy-to-support-and-engage-low-income-families-in-the-early-years.Open Access Link
Hoskins, K., Wainwright, E., Arabaci, R., Zhai, J., Gao, J. and Xu, Y. (2024) 'Engaging low-income families in education research: examining the challenges in Beijing and London'. Compare: a journal of comparative and international education, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 19. ISSN: 0305-7925 Open Access Link
Hoskins, K., Lebbakhar, A. and Watts, M. (2024) '‘It hooks them in, it’s straight in there’: leveraging game culture for learning in the Key Stage 2 science curriculum'. Education 3-13: the professional journal for primary education, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 0300-4279 Open Access Link
Wainwright, E., Hoskins, K., Arabaci, R., Zhai, J., Gao, J. and Xu, Y. (2024) 'Researching the Everyday Educational Lives of Low-Income Families: The Importance of Researcher and Participant Contexts'. British Journal of Educational Studies, 73 (1). pp. 5 - 25. ISSN: 0007-1005 Open Access Link