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Profiles
Professor Jocey Quinn
Professor of Education
Plymouth Institute of Education (Faculty of Arts & Humanities)
Role
Professor of Education
Qualifications
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
Research interests
Education and Culture
Learning outside Formal Education
Post-compulsory Education and Training
Comparative Higher Education
HE curriculum and feminist ideas
HE curriculum and feminist ideas
Grants & contracts
Current externally funded projects
2015-2017 Arts Council Research Grants Programme, Beyond Words, principal investigator
2014-2016 British Academy, The Significance and Survival of Tent City University, principal investigator
2014-2016 British Academy, The Significance and Survival of Tent City University, principal investigator
2014-2016 Erasmus+, PrevDrop, Preventing student drop out from Higher Education or facilitating successful switching to Vocational Education and Training, co-investigator
Selected Previous Funded Projects
2013-2015 Council of Europe, Higher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, principal investigator
2013-2016 Campaign for National Parks, Mosaic Youth Project, principal investigator
2011-2013 ESRC New Perspectives on Education and Culture, principal investigator
2012 Equality Challenge Unit, Women's Mentoring in Higher Education, principal investigator
2009-2010 Equality Challenge Unit, 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, 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
2013-2015 Council of Europe, Higher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, principal investigator
2013-2016 Campaign for National Parks, Mosaic Youth Project, principal investigator
2011-2013 ESRC New Perspectives on Education and Culture, principal investigator
2012 Equality Challenge Unit, Women's Mentoring in Higher Education, principal investigator
2009-2010 Equality Challenge Unit, 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, 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
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
Edited Books
Thomas, L., Cooper, M. and Quinn, J. (2003) Improving Completion Rates among disadvantaged students, Stoke: Trentham Books
Thomas, L. Cooper, M. and Quinn, J. (2002) Collaboration to Widen Participation, Stoke: Trentham Books
Thomas, L., Cooper, M. and Quinn, J. (2001) Access to Higher Education: The Unfinished Business, Stoke: Trentham Books
Davies, S., Lubelska, C. and Quinn, J. (1994) Changing the Subject: Women in Higher Education, London: Taylor and Francis
Book Chapters
Quinn, J., Allen, K., Hollingworth, S., Maylor, U., Osgood, J., Rose, A. (2015) Dialogue or Duel?the gendered politics of impacting and engaging, in Y. Taylor, Ed, The Entrepreneurial University Engaging Publics, London: Routledge
Allen, K., Quinn, J., Hollingworth, S. and Rose, A. ( 2012) Doing Diversity and Evading Equality: the case of student work placements in the arts and cultural sector in Y. Taylor Ed Diversity, London: Palgrave MacMillian
Sandmann, L., Moore, T. and Quinn, J. (2012) Center and Periphery in Service Learning and Community Engagement, in J, Hatcher and R. Bringle (Eds) Service Learning and Community Engagement: crossing boundaries through research: Information Age Press: USA
Quinn, J. (2009) Rethinking ‘failed’ transitions into Higher Education, in Ecclestone, K. Biesta, G. and Hughes, M. Eds Transitions and Learning through the Lifecourse, London: Routledge
Quinn, J., Lawy, R. and Diment, K. (2009) “Drifting”, “Desperate” or just “Diverse”? (2009) Researching young people in jobs without training’ in J. Field, J. Gallacher and R., Ingrams, (Eds) Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning, London: Routledge
Quinn, J. (2008) Crossing borders of the mind: women in Higher Education, in J. Klaehn, (Ed), Roadblocks to Equality, Toronto: Black Rose Press
Quinn, J. (2007) Welcome to the Pleasure Dome: women taking pleasure in the university, in P. Cotterill, G. Letherby and S. Jackson (Eds) Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education, New York : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Quinn, J. (2006) Mass Participation but no Curriculum Transformation in Jary, D. and Jones, R. (Eds) The Policy and Practice of Widening Participation in the Social Sciences CSAP; University of Birmingham
Quinn, J. (2004) The Corporeality of Learning: Women Students and the Body in Ali, S. Benjamin, S. and Mauthner, M. (Eds) The Politics of Gender and Education, London: Pearson Macmillan
Quinn, J. (2003) The Ethnographic Self as Hired Hand: Reflecting on Researching Partnerships, in Satterthwaite, J., Gale, K. and Atkinson E. (Eds) Discourse Power and Resistance: challenging the rhetoric of contemporary education, Stoke: Trentham Books
Quinn, J. (2002) Interdisciplinary Collaboration: its role in widening participation in Thomas, L, Cooper, M. and Quinn, J. Collaboration to Widen Participation, Stoke: Trentham Books
Journal Articles
Quinn, J. (2013) Theorising Learning and Nature: posthuman possibilities and problems, Gender and Education, Special Issue
Quinn, J. (2013) New Learning Worlds? The significance of nature in the lives of disadvantaged young people, Discourse: Cultural Politics of Education, 34:5
Allen, K., Quinn, J., Hollingworth, S. and Rose, A. (2013) Becoming an employable student and an ‘ideal’ creative worker: inequality and diversity in student work placements, British Journal of Sociology of Education
Holdsworth , C. and Quinn, J. (2012) The epistemological challenge of HE student volunteering: ‘reproductive’ or ‘deconstructive’ volunteering? Antipode: Journal of Radical Geography, 44:2, pp386-405
Holdsworth, C. and Quinn, J. (2010) Student volunteering in English higher education, Studies in Higher Education Vol 35:2, pp113-127
Lawy, R., Quinn, J. and Diment, K. (2010) Responding to the ‘needs’ of young people in jobs without training: some policy suggestions and recommendations, Journal of Youth Studies, 13(3) 335-351
Quinn, J. (2009) Many more rivers to cross: women in Higher Education, Gender and Education, Vol 21:3, pp 337-341
Lawy, R., Quinn, J. and Diment, K. (2009) Listening to ‘the thick bunch’: (mis)understandings and (mis)representations of young people in jobs without training in South West England, British Journal of Sociology of Education
Quinn, J., Lawy, R. and Diment, K. (2008) “Dead End Kids In Dead End Jobs”? Reshaping Debates on Young People in Jobs without Training, Research in Postcompulsory Education, Vol 13:2, pp185-194
Quinn, J., Thomas, L., Slack, K., Casey, L., Thexton, W. and Noble, J. (2006) Lifting the Hood: lifelong learning and young, white, provincial working class masculinities, British Educational Research Journal, Vol 32:5
Quinn, J. (2005) Belonging in a learning community: the reimagined university and imagined social capital, Studies in the Education of Adults, Vol 37: 1
Quinn, J., Thomas, L. Slack, K., Vigurs, K. and Flynn, N. (2005) Learners on their own terms? Learning brokerage, mainstream transformation and social exclusion, Journal of Access Policy and Practice,
Quinn, J. (2004) Understanding working class drop out through a socio-cultural lens: cultural narratives and local contexts, International Studies in Sociology of Education, Vol 14:1
Quinn, J. (2004) Mothers, Learners and Countermemory, Gender and Education, Vol 16:3
Slack, K., Thomas, L., Casey, L. Vigurs, K, Quinn, J. and Flynn., N. (2004) Learning Brokerage: Building Bridges between learners and providers, Journal of Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, Vol 6:3
Quinn, J. (2003) The dynamics of the protected space: spatial concepts and women students, British Journal of Sociology of Education Vol 24:4
Reports & invited lectures
Research Reports
Quinn, J. ( 2013) Drop out and completion in Higher Education in Europe amongst under-represented students, report commissioned by the Network of Experts in Social Aspects of Education and Training (NESET) on behalf of the European Commission
Quinn, J. (2011) Women’s Mentoring in Higher Education: research report and Guidelines for the HE sector, Equality Challenge Unit
Allen, K., Quinn,J. , Hollingworth, S. and Rose, A.( 2010) Equality issues in student work placements in the arts and cultural sector, London: Equality Challenge Unit
Quinn, J., Kuyok, K. A., Minty, S. (2009) International synthesis of widening participation evidence, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills: London
Quinn, J., Lawy, R. and Diment, K. (2008) Young People in jobs without training in South West England: Not just ‘dead-end kids in dead-end jobs’, Marchmont Observatory/Exeter University
Quinn, J. Thomas, L., Slack, K., Casey, L., Thexton, W. and Noble, J. (2005) From Life Crisis to Lifelong Learning: Rethinking working class drop-out from higher education, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation,
Thomas, L. Quinn, J., Slack, K., Vigurs, K, Casey, L. and Flynn, N.(2005/2004) Learning Brokers Research Project: Reports One, Two and Three London: Learning and Skills Research Centre
Thomas, L. and Quinn, J. (2003) International Insights into Widening Participation: Institute for Access Studies: Staffordshire University (Sutton Trust and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation)
Thomas, L., Quinn, J., Slack, K. and Casey, L. (2002) Student Services Project: Effective Approaches to Retaining non-traditional Students in Higher Education. London: DfES
Thomas, L. Quinn, J., Slack, K. and Williams, S. (2001) Widening Participation: evaluation of the collaboration between higher education institutions and further education colleges to increase participation in higher education. Bristol