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Collaborations:
- 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)
Research staff:
- My research interests focus on the intersection of education social class and identity. It tends to be qualitative
- and is generally driven by a social justice agenda.
Teaching staff:
- Qualifications:BA (Hons) Social Science, PGCE (FE), MSc Sociology, PhD
- Position:Associate Professor of the Sociology of Education
- Department:ACE - Education and Childhood
- Telephone:+44 (0)117 32 84100
- Email:Richard.Waller@uwe.ac.uk
About me
My original degree was in Sociology and Politics, and after a year as an NUS sabbatical 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. I joined UWE's Faculty of Education in a full-time Senior Lecturer role in 2003, completing my PhD as a part-time student in 2006. I was promoted to Director of Lifelong Learning in 2009, and became Associate Head of Dept in 2011. In Sept 2012 I was appointed Associate Professor of the Sociology of Education. I am co-leader of the BRIDGE departmental research group, and jointly lead our PhD and Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD) programmes. I also co-convene UWE's Education Research Network (ERNie). I led UWE's successful Education Unit of Assessment submission to the REF2014 exercise, and am the UoA lead for the prospective REF2021 submission. I am on the editorial board of four journals, and a trustee of the British Sociological Association, for whom I have previously been Education Study Group convenor and conference stream co-ordinator.
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
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