Senior Lecturer in Education (Childhood and Youth)

I trained as a primary teacher at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. After teaching in the UK and abroad I returned to Cambridge University to study for my MPhil and PhD degrees.

My 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.

My 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, I have a specific interest in social justice.

I have developed and taught courses in relation to education and social inequality at the University of Cambridge and Liverpool Hope University where I was also the MA co-ordinator for Childhood and Youth Studies and Course Leader for the undergraduate Education Research programme.

Qualifications

• BEd (Hons) Qualified Primary Teacher - University of Cambridge
• MPhil  Education - University of Cambridge
• Studying for PhD

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: +44 (0)1234 793440
E: anna.graham@beds.ac.uk