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Summary

Kate is a Professor in Education with a focus on policy. Her research interests rest on the intersections between education and social policy, identity and inequalities in relation to early years, further and higher education. Her current funded Froebel Trust project with Professor Emma Wainwright, Dr Utsa Mukherjee and Dr Yuwei Xu examines how low income families engage with Froebelian principles. She has published extensively on inequalities in ECEC, with a focus on the role of policy in exacerbating these. Kate's most recent research on social mobility with Professor Bernard Barker examines the role of the family in intra and inter-generational social movement. They take a unique genealogical approach to researching social mobility, using a university chemistry department as a case study to explore participants’ motives for pursuing a STEM undergraduate degree and the influences that have shaped them. Kate has recently completed a British Academy funded research project with Professor Marie-Pierre Moreau and Dr Ellen McHugh to examine the precarious transitions undertaken by doctoral researchers negotiating the shift to an academic post. Kate is a Co-Editor of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ).

Qualifications

PhD (ESRC fully funded scholarship) King's College London

Fellow, Higher Education Academy

MA Education Policy & Society (distinction), King's College London

BA Education Studies (1st class), London Metropolitan University

Awards

2023: BERA Annual Conference – SIG Best Presentation for the Educational Research and Educational-Policy Making SIG.

2019: Shortlisted for the Lecturer of the Year College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences Award. 

Responsibility

Director of Internationalisation, Department of Education