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University of Bedfordshire
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Anna Graham

Position

Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies

Anna Graham

Profile

Anna Graham trained as a primary teacher at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. After teaching in the UK and abroad she returned to Cambridge University to study for her MPhil and PhD degrees. Her MPhil thesis ‘Learners, Carers and Providers: The Problems and Perceptions of Low-Income Lone Mothers and Education’ explored the ways low income lone mothers reconciled their children’s education and welfare needs with the economic logic of paid employment and their own further education and training needs. Her PhD research ‘Schooling in the Declining Housing Estate’ is an ethnographic study of a declining housing estate and its primary school. As a sociologist of education, Anna has a specific interest in social justice and has developed and taught courses in relation to education and social inequality at the University of Cambridge and Liverpool Hope University where she was also the MA co-ordinator for Childhood and Youth Studies and Course Leader for the undergraduate Education Research programme.

Teaching Expertise

  • Course Leader for Childhood and Youth Studies
  • Education Studies
  • Masters in Teaching and Learning
  • MA in Education 

Research Interests

  • Issues of social justice especially in relation to the educational implications of poverty and social exclusion, disadvantaged communities, schooling in declining areas and education and welfare policy in the UK
  • Families, children and young people and the development of innovative methods to research the lives of marginalized groups.

Contact Details

T: 01234 793440
E: anna.graham@beds.ac.uk


 

 

 

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