Professor Peggy Froerer
Professor of Anthropology

Research supervision

First supervisor:

• Márcia De Oliveira Goulart: Children, learning and music education in UK primary schools (expected submission 2030)
• Leily Kassai: Exploring ACE and trauma-informed approaches: an anthropological study of young boys' sexual/relational behaviours in educational settings  (expected submission 2029)
• Ellie Fields: Contesting Narratives: Young people’s perspectives of school labels and the culture of youth in education and society (expected submission 2028)
• Zhiqian Zhao: Educational aspiration and the “way out” (chulu): a study of Liangshan Yi youths, southwest China (expected submission 2028)
• Katrina Lacey: Home schooling cultures in London (expected submission 2028)
• Bandana Adhikari: Understanding hidden curriculum of the Nepalese education system (expected submission 2027)
• Paul Thung: Changing “mindsets” and managing visibility: nature conservation as a form of social mediation in Indonesian Borneo (awarded 2023)
• Tanyel Oktar: Schooling and Deaf/deaf Identity in London (awarded 2018)
• Harold Herrewegh: Bureaucracy, Power, and Conflict: The Politics of Managing a Transcultural Community Mental Healthcare Clinic in the Netherlands (MPhil awarded 2017)
• Nicole Hoellerer: Community in Refugee Settlement: An Ethnographic Exploration of Bhutanese Refugees in Manchester, UK (awarded 2016)
• Benjamin Bowles: Water Ways: Becoming and Itinerant Boat-Dweller on the Canals and Rivers of South-East England (awarded 2015)
• Adam Connelly The Home in the Mountains: Imagining a School and Schooling Imaginaries in Darjeeling, India (awarded 2013)
• Ditte Sass: ‘Being’ and ‘Becoming’ a Welfare Citizen in the Danish Folkeskole (awarded 2012)
• Nurul Bhuiyan: Creating ‘Good Muslims’: Qawmi Madrasa Schooling in a Rural Town of Bangladesh (awarded 2011)

Second Supervisor

• Nieke Monika Kulsum: The Impact of Digital Messaging on Waste Management and Plastic Pollution in Low-income Coastal Communities in Indonesia (expected submission 2025)
• Laura Batatota: Shaping the Future: Forming Aspirations of a Post-War Generation in Sri Lanka (awarded 2020).
• Eva Luksaite: The Intimate State: Female Sterilisation, Reproductive Agency and Operable Bodies in Rural North India (awarded 2016);
• Sharon Attard: Banishing the Abject: Constituting Oppositional Relationships in a Maltese Harbour Town (awarded 2013)

External Supervisor

• Rashmi Kumari (Rutgers University): Education and activism amongst marginalised adivasi youth in central India (awarded 2024)
• Sahib Singh (UCL): Dispossession politics: adivasis and the state in central India (expected submission 2025)