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- The University of Bristol (Paired Peers project)
- South West Centre for Excellence in Teaching Training (various FE ITE projects)
- UWE's HAS Faculty (Tutor/Mentor project)
- South West Learning & Skills Council (Work-Related Learning project)
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- Qualifications:BA (Hons) Social Science, PGCE (FE), MSc Sociology, PhD
- Position:Professor of Education and Social Justice
- Department:ACE - Education and Childhood
- Telephone:+4411732 84100
- Email:Richard.Waller@uwe.ac.uk
About me
My original degree was in Sociology and Politics at what was then Bristol Polytechnic, and after a year as an NUS sabbatical officer I joined the civil service through their graduate recruitment scheme. I left there to re-train as a further education college lecturer at Cardiff University, and held a number of part-time teaching roles in FE colleges (mainly Sociology and on Access to HE courses) and HE (including on UWE's Sociology degree course) from 1994-2003. I also worked p/t in the University of Bristol's Widening Participation Office 2000-2001, helping get more mature students into the university. I completed my MSc in Sociology in 2001, and began a PhD full-time on a bursary later that year, a study of adults returning to education as mature students and the impact it had on their lives.
Area of expertise
Post-compulsory education; Sociology of Education; Student experience/s; Qualitative research methods; Identity; Education and social class; Education and gender; Masculinty and social class; Adult education teacher training; Professional identities in education.
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