Kim Allen, Sumi Hollingworth, Ayo Mansaray and Yvette Taylor
Kim Allen
Dr Kim Allen is Research Fellow at the Education and Social Research Institute (ESRI) at Manchester Metropolitan University. A feminist and sociologist of education and youth, Kim's research focuses broadly on neoliberalism, youth and inequalities of social class and gender; and representations of selfhood in media and popular culture. As well as chapters in edited books, Kim has articles in a range of journals including: Discourse; Studies in the Maternal; British Journal of the Sociology of Education; and Urban Studies. Kim is co-investigator on the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project 'Celebrity culture and young people's classed and gendered aspirations' (http://www.celebyouth.org/ ). The Education & Social Research Institute (ESRI) Manchester Metropolitan University 799 Wilmslow Road Didsbury Manchester M20 2RR E-mail: K.Allen@mmu.ac.uk
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Sumi Hollingworth
Sumi Hollingworth is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) at London Metropolitan University. Working at the nexus of sociology, geography and youth studies, she researches inequalities of social class, race and gender in education and has a commitment to feminist research practice. She has a particular interest in: critical approaches to social mixing and community cohesion; youth subcultures and schooling; urban education; and young people's educational transitions and access to work. She is co-author of Urban Youth and Schooling (2010) with Louise Archer and Heather Mendick; and has a number of articles in journals including: Space and Polity; Urban Studies; Journal of Youth Studies; Gender and Education and Sociology. Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) London Metropolitan University 166-220 Holloway Rd London, N7 8DB
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Ayo Mansaray
Dr Ayo Mansaray is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) at London Metropolitan University. He is a recipient of a Winston Churchill Fellowship (2013) and a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado Denver and the University of Vermont in 2013. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Institute of Education Director's Thesis prize in 2013. Ayo is a sociologist of education, whose substantive empirical and theoretical interests sit at the nexus of sociology of education and urban geography, with a focus on social class, race and gender inequalities in urban education and socio-spatial processes. Theoretically, he is interested in pursuing points of synthesis and articulation between Bourdieusian concepts and the micro-sociological approach as represented by Erving Goffman, Randall Collins and others. Ayo has published a number of research reports and evaluations on the teaching profession and support staff, urban schooling and educational reform, as well as peer reviewed articles and reviews in journals such as Sociological Research Online, Pedagogy Culture & Society, Ethnopolitics, Work, Employment and Society and Gender and Education. Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) London Metropolitan University 166-220 Holloway Rd London, N7 8DB
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Email: a.mansaray@londonmet.ac.uk
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Yvette Taylor
Yvette Taylor is Professor in Social and Policy Studies and Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University. She has held a Fulbright Scholarship at Rutgers University (2010-11). Books include Fitting Into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities (Ashgate, 2012); Lesbian and Gay Parenting: Securing Social and Educational Capitals (Palgrave, 2009) and Working-Class Lesbian Life: Classed Outsiders (Palgrave, 2007). She is the Editor of a new Routledge book series Advances in Critical Diversities. Edited collections include Queer Presences and Absences (2013, Palgrave); Queering Religion, Religious Queers (2014, Routledge) Educational Diversity (Palgrave, 2012); Sexualities: Reflections and Futures (2012); Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality (Palgrave, 2010) Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges (Ashgate, 2010). She has articles in a range of journals including British Journal of the Sociology of Education, European Societies, Sociological Research Online, Feminist Theory. Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University 103 Borough Road, London, SE1 OAA
Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research
London South Bank University
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Email: taylory@lsbu.ac.uk
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