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- Qualifications:Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy
- Position:Professor of Education Policy in Critical Education
- Department:ACE - Education and Childhood
- Telephone:+4411732 81210
- Email:Alpesh.Maisuria@uwe.ac.uk
About me
Area of expertise
Sociology of education,
Education policy,
Critical education,
Marxist theory,
Critical realism,
Social class.
Particular areas of concern include: The National Education Service, student fees, student choice, marketisation of HE, academic working conditions, private schools, Academies/free schools, testing, league tables, de-professionalisation of educators, Socialism, Cuba, Sweden, social democracy, alternatives to capitalism.
Alpesh welcomes doctoral applicants and media enquiries in any of these areas.
Current PGR students:
Aga Kowalska (PhD Director) Policy, Practice and Power: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Head Teacher's Perspectives in the Exclusion of Children with Autism from Secondary Schools
Craig Lennox (EdD Director) To what extent are neoliberal policies in Higher Education in England impacting on academic identities?
Emmy Lathom (PhD Supervisor) A mixed methods study exploring the perceptions of Alternative Learning Provision school staff about
workplace-based stress reduction interventions.
Daniel Scullane (PhD Supervisor) Further Education Successful Governance (tbc)
Justin Vafadari (PhD Director) A Case Study to Explore the Pedagogical Principles of Decolonisation by School Leaders in Bristol
Anish Noble-Harrison (EdD Director) Voices at the Margins: An examination of English Public Libraries capability in supporting 'vulnerable' children and their families' to read for pleasure
Rachael Pryor (EdD Supervisor) Perspectives from children in care on primary to secondary transition, a case study
Anna Birchfiel (PhD Director) Crisis in Education: The Case for a National Education Service
Stephen Beresford (PhD Director 2023-) Grammar Schools and Social Mobility in England
External Doctoral candidates
Robert Michael Parry (PhD Supervisor 2023-), Workers Education in England, University of Malta (with Prof Peter Mayo)
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