Professor Emma Wainwright
Professor
Topics
Social and educational inequalities
Education, family and parenting
Higher Education, student experience. widening participation, identity and inclusion
Social housing, welfare and welfare-to-work
PhD projects for research students
Research supervision
Current Supervision:
Hannah Filer (PhD student) Dance, Communities and Wellbeing
Karen Western (EdD student) Grief and bereavement support for university students
Gemma Cook (ESRC GUDTP student)
Sarah Blakemore (PhD student) A child rights-based approach to responding to safeguarding incidents in international organisations
Rotimi Taiwo (PhD student): Historical analysis of Colonial Yorubaland (Western Nigeria): Educational development and cultural nationalism
Completed Supervisions:
Robyn Smith (PhD student) Participatory approaches to explore refugee youth wellbeing and leisure (successful completion 2023)
Deborah Bell (EdD student): The reality of School Place preference – a parent’s view (successful completion 2022)
Sichen Chen (PhD student): An investigation into how Chinese university students’ learning experiences influence their beliefs, values, and attitudes of EFL learning (successful completion 2022)
Saima Salehjee (PhD student): The Making Of a Scientist: A study of Sci-ID Transformations (successful completion April 2017)
Yusi Cheng (PhD student): Examining the transformative role of music education in developing students' understandings of sustainable development (successful completion May 2015)
Frank Offer (EdD student): Full participation in education and training to age 18 in England: perspectives from policy and life-worlds of young people (successful completion July 2013)
Research Development Advisor
Gemma Cook (ESRC GUDTP student)
Alejandra Carillo (ESRC GUDTP student)