Doctoral Researcher
Research Topic
Schooling for Diverse Communities
Research Summary
This research project aims to explore how young people from different backgrounds experience schooling and how their experience influences their identities with a particular focus on the socially disadvantaged. Doing so, this study will generate new understanding(s) within the long-standing educational debate around the under achievement of disadvantaged young people in the schooling system.
This study is an ethnographic study in a small number of state schools in England. Research data will be collected through observations, interviews and documentary analysis.
Research Interests
- Schooling
- English in Education
- Inequality and Social Justice
- Subjectivities
- Teacher Education
- Post-structural theory
Research Supervisors
Prof. Deborah Youdell and Dr. Ian McGimpsey
Membership of Research and Professional Organisations
- The National Association for Teachers of English (NATE)
- British Educational Research Association (BERA)
- British Shakespeare Association (BSA)
Biography
Michael started his PhD at the University of Birmingham following the completion of his Learning and Teaching MSc at the University of Oxford. Prior to this he completed a BA (hons) in English Literary Studies and an MA in Victorian and Modernist Literature prior to qualifying as a secondary English teacher. Michael is an experienced teacher having held various positions in a variety of state secondary schools in England.
Education
- English Literary Studies BA (Hons) - University of Worcester
- Literature, Culture and Modernity: Victorian and Modernist MA – University of Birmingham
- English PGCE with QTS – University of Oxford
- Learning and Teaching MSc – University of Oxford
Contact Details
Email: mxa275@student.bham.ac.uk