Role
Lecturer on BA(hons), BEd and MA Early Childhood Studies
FLECS Co-ordinator (Flexible Learning in Early Childhood Studies- blended learning route)
Qualifications & background
PG Cert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE), University of Plymouth 2010.
MA Applied Social Research, University of Manchester 2008
- thesis on the educational experiences and well-being of refugee and asylum seeker children in the UK.
MSc Poverty Reduction and Development Management, University of Birmingham 2001
- thesis on educational provision for Somali Pastoralists in NE Kenya.
BA (hons) English/ African Studies 2(i), University of Birmingham 1999.
Professional membership
British Educational Research Association
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Teaching interests
Child well-being in the developing world, social inequalities and poverty, social and educational research methods, multi-agency working, social policy and equalities issues.
Research interests
I am interested in social inequalities, child poverty, children's rights and cultural diversity. I have worked in community development in London and Manchester, on projects to support looked after and refugee children, and I am particularly interested in how statutory agencies meet the needs of disadvantaged communities, and are held accountable for doing so.
I have lived and worked in Namibia, Ghana and Kenya and am interested in global issues of child welfare, particularly on the role of education in improving life chances.
I am currently undertaking research into the support needs of children with a father in prison in the South West of England, and the ethics and impact of student study trips to the developing world.
Publications
Boyask, R., Carter, R., Waite, S, Lawson, H. (2009) 'Concepts and patterns of diversity: Mapping efforts to address learning and diversity in English schools' in K. Quinlivan, R, Boyask and B. Kaur (Eds), Educational Enactments in a Globalised World: Intercultural Conversations, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Carter Dillon, R., Huggins, V. (2010) 'Children’s well-being in the developing world: issues of family, economics, health and education' in C. Leeson and R Parker-Rees (Eds) Early Childhood Studies, Exeter: Learning Matters.
Waite, S., Boyask, R., Lawson, H., Carter, R. (2008) 'Concepts of diversity in the UK: Person-centred methodological approaches to tracking identity formation within education' in A. Ross and P. Cunningham (Eds) Reflecting on Identities: Research, Practice & Innovation, Proceedings of the tenth Conference of the Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe Thematic Network, London: CiCE.
