Role
Professor of Education
Qualifications & background
PhD Educational Research, Lancaster University (ESRC award)
PGCEA (Majoring in Higher Education), University of Surrey
MA Area Studies: USA, University College, London (DES award)
BA Hons English, University of Liverpool
Professional membership
AERA
BSA
GEA
Roles on external bodies
Editorial Board
Gender and Education
Policy Futures in Education
Journal of Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning
External Expert EU RANLHE project
Staff serving as external examiners
University of Bristol: MSc Educational Research and Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning
Research interests
Education and Culture
Higher Education and social justice
Lifelong Learning outside formal education
HE curriculum and feminist ideas
Grants & contracts
2011-2013 ESRC New Perspectives on Education and Culture seminar series, principal investigator
2012 ECU Women's Mentoring in Higher Education, principal investigator
2009-2010 ECU Equality issues in student work placements in the Arts and Cultural Sector, principal investigator
2007-2008 DIUS International synthesis of widening participation initiatives, principal investigator
2006-2008 EU/Learning and Skills Council/Connexions, Young people in jobs without training in South West
England, principal investigator
2006 ESRC Backward and Forward Linkages between universities and communities, co-applicant
2003-2005 Joseph Rowntree Foundation Rethinking working class drop out from Higher Education, principal investigator
2003-2004 Learning and Skills Research Council, Learning Brokerage Research Project, co-applicant
2002-2003 Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, International retention in HE project, co-applicant
2002-2004 ESRC Problematising Methodology in Access research seminar series, principal investigator
2002 DfES Supporting Retention of Non-Traditional Students in HE (Traynor Report), co-applicant
2001 HEFCE Evaluation of widening participation partnerships, co-applicant
1997-2000 ESRC Powerful Subjects: women students, subjectivity and the HE curriculum, PhD studentship
Publications
Books
Quinn, J. ( forthcoming) Education and Culture, London: Routledge
Quinn, J. (2010) Learning Communities and Imagined Social Capital, London: Continuum
Quinn, J. (2003) Powerful Subjects: are women really taking over the university?, Stoke on Trent: Trentham
Thomas, L. and Quinn, J. ( 2007) First generation entry into Higher Education: an international study,
Buckingham: SRHE, Open University Press
Recent Articles
Quinn, J. (2013) ' New Learning Worlds: the Significance of Nature in the Lives of Marginalised Young People', Discourse, 34(5)
Holdsworth, C. and Quinn, J. (2012) 'The epistemological challenge of HE students volunteering: 'reproductive' or 'deconstructive' volunteering?, Antipode, 44:2
Reports & invited lectures
Most recent:
Invited keynote speech
Access, Retention and Drop out of Non-Traditional Students in HE Conference
Seville, April 2011
