Publications
Our publications showcase research developed through our work with young people, communities, and partners. They reflect our commitment to producing inclusive, impactful knowledge that informs practice, policy, and social change
2026
Wilson-Thomas, J., Corcoran, S.L., Jen, M., Davies, L.E. (2026) ‘Relational and Feminist Pedagogic Approaches for Developing Engagement and Inclusion of Girls at Risk of Exclusion in England.’ British Educational Research Journal (BERJ), 0(0) pp. 1-18.
Wilkinson, S. (2026) ‘An Autoethnography of My Experiences of Undergoing Fertility Treatment While Working as an Academic.’ Gender, Work & Organization.
Wilson-Thomas, J., Corcoran, S. (2026) ‘Literacy and Girls at Risk of Exclusion.’ The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Gender & Sexuality. Bloomsbury.
Trafi-Prats, L. (2026) ‘Thinking and Creating Space with Children: A Terrestrial Perspective.’ Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.
Platt, L., Devienne, E., Boycott-Garnett, R., Larrington-Spencer, H., Lovett, E., Naughton-Doe, R., Powell, A., Tucker, L., Stenning, A., Wilkinson, C., Wilkinson, S. (2026) ‘The ‘Walking/Wheeling With’ Framework: Establishing Walking/Wheeling with Children as a Mobility Justice Issue.’ Mobilities, pp. 1-16.
Davey, K., Russell, L., Thompson, R. & Bishop, J. (2026). No other choice: The fracturing of reflexivity in families’ pathways into (non-)elective home education in England. British Educational Research Journal, 00, 1–20.
Wilkinson, S., Wilkinson, C., Williams, G., Hewitson, K., Gavin, M., Bowling, C. (2026). Doing Alcohol Research Differently: Considerations During Research with Romany Gypsy and Traveller Communities – A Narrative Review with Methodological and Ethical Considerations. Qualitative Health Research.
Rowley, H, Batsleer, J. (2025) From the other side of the street; negotiating difference in youth activism (Chapter 19) in Erdal, C & Kennelly, J. De Gruyter Handbook on Youth Activism. De Gruyter.
Stenhouse, R.L. (2026) Private Schools and Cultural Capital Privilege and Inequalities in the English Education System. Emerald Publishing Limited.
2025
Wilkinson, S., Fenton, L. (2025) ‘Mother’s ruin? The relational alcohol consumption practices and experiences of mothers and their teenage and young adult children.’ Children’s Geographies.
Russell, L., Davey, K., Thompson, R., Bishop, J. (2025) ‘How time is experienced and conceptualised when conducting ethnography mapping NEET interventions in education settings.’ Ethnography.
Russell, L., Thompson, R. (2025) ‘Predicting educational exclusion: A literature review of risk factors associated with early leaving from education.’ European Educational Research Journal.
Salt, K., Rubin, J., Jones, L., Slapakova, L., Wilkinson, B. (2025) ‘Evidence-based Diversity: Lessons from Beyond the Armed Forces.’ In Waruszynski, B., Yanakiev, Y., McDonald, D. (ed.) Team Diversity and Inclusion in Defence and Security International Perspectives. Springer Nature, pp. 179-194.
Larrington-Spencer, H., Platt, L., Wilkinson, S. (2025) ‘Walking and wheeling: Exploring the everyday access-making practices of disabled parents and/or parents of disabled children in Greater Manchester.’ North West Geography, 25(1).
Davey, K. (2025) ‘Beyond the Promise of Social Mobility? Re-thinking the purpose of higher education in England through high-achieving, working-class girls’ reflexive reasons for applying to high-tariff universities.’ Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 30(1) pp. 184-202.
Davey, K. (2025) ‘Striving to be super: the contradictions of academic success in high-achieving, working-class girls’ pathways to high-tariff universities.’ British Journal of Educational Studies, 73(2) pp. 215-234.
Davey, K., Russell, L., Jo, B., Ron, T. (2025) ‘Playing the Game? Young People ‘at risk’ of becoming NEET (not in education, employment or training) and their investment in education..’ Journal of Youth Studies, pp. 1-17.
Taylor, E., & Stenhouse, R. L. (2025). A designed ‘lack of design’: how autonomy enables the mobilisation of capital at elite schools. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1–16.
2024
Davey, K. (2024) ‘Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making.’ British Journal of Sociology of Education, 45(3) pp. 332-346.
Franklin, A. (2024) ‘DISABLED CHILD PROTECTION – EVIDENCE FOR IMPROVED PRACTICE IN THE UK.’ Child Protection Handbook. pp. 189-197.
Ivinson, G. (2024) ‘Troubling and diffracting Winnicott’s pioneering approach to playing through Deleuze’s ontology for early childhood education.’ Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 32(4) pp. 953-966.
Weatherill, E., Corcoran, S., Ng, S.Y.C. (2024) ‘Street-connectedness through a Covid 19 lens: exploring media representations of street-connected children to understand their societal positionality.’ Global Studies of Childhood, 14(2) pp. 125-139.
Stenhouse, R.L., & Ingram, N. (2024) ‘Private school entry to Oxbridge: how cultural capital counts in the making of elites.’ British Journal of Sociology of Education, 45(2), pp. 267-283.