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Profiles
Professor Jocey Quinn
Professor of Education
Plymouth Institute of Education (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Jocey can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- Education
- Social justice
- Universities
- Informal learning
- Youth
- NEETs
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
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
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2019
'Living Beyond Words: post-human reflections on making music with post-verbal people'
Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Respecting young people’s informal learning: Circumventing strategic policy evasions'
Policy Futures in Education
147821031773622-147821031773622
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'The potential for lifelong learning in dementia: a post-humanist exploration'
International Journal of Lifelong Education
1-17
, DOI
PEARL
2013
'Theorising learning and nature: post-human possibilities and problems'
GENDER AND EDUCATION
25,
(6)
738-753
, DOI
2013
'Becoming employable students and 'ideal' creative workers: exclusion and inequality in higher education work placements'
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
34,
(3)
431-452
, DOI
2012
'New Learning Worlds?: the significance of nature in the lives of marginalised young people'
Discourse:Cultural politics of Education
34,
(5)
, DOI
2012
'The Epistemological Challenge of Higher Education Student Volunteering: "Reproductive" or "Deconstructive" Volunteering?'
ANTIPODE
44,
(2)
386-405
, DOI
2010
'Responding to the ‘needs’ of young people in jobs without training (JWT): some policy suggestions and recommendations'
Journal of Youth Studies
13,
(3)
335-352
, DOI
2010
'Student volunteering in English higher education'
Studies in Higher Education
35,
(1)
113-127
, DOI
2009
'Listening to ‘the thick bunch’: (mis)understanding and (mis)representation of young people in jobs without training in the South West of England'
British Journal of Sociology of Education
30,
(6)
741-755
, DOI
2009
'Listening to 'the thick bunch': (mis) understandings and (mis) representations of young people in jobs without training in South West Ensland'
British Journal of Sociology of Education
30,
(6)
741-755
, DOI
2009
'Many more rivers to cross: women and higher education'
Gender and Education
21,
(3)
337-341
, DOI
2006
'Lifting the hood: lifelong learning and young, white, provincial working‐class masculinities'
British Educational Research Journal
32,
(5)
735-750
, DOI
2005
'Belonging in a learning community: The re-imagined university and imagined social capital'
Studies in the Education of Adults
37,
(1)
4-17
, DOI
2004
'Understanding working-class 'drop-out' from higher education through a sociocultural lens: Cultural narratives and local contexts'
International Studies in Sociology of Education
14,
(1)
57-74
, DOI
2003
'The Dynamics of the Protected Space: Spatial concepts and women students'
British Journal of Sociology of Education
24,
(4)
449-461
, DOI
Books
2011
Learning Communities and Imagined Social Capital.
Continuum
Chapters
2016
'Student community engagement through a posthuman lens: The trans-corporeality of student and sea'
Posthuman Research Practices in Education
206-219
, DOI
Conference Papers
2008
'‘Dead end kids in dead end jobs’? Reshaping debates on young people in jobs without training'
1-/-0/1900
1-/-0/1900
Informa UK Limited
185-194
, DOI
Reports
2014
Long term impacts of the Young Champion Experience with Exmoor National Park Authority.