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Profiles
Professor Jocey Quinn
Professor of Education
Plymouth Institute of Education - School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Professor Jocey Quinn can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- Education
- NEETs
- Youth
- Informal learning
- Universities
- Social justice
- Lifelong learning and Dementia
- Arts and health
- Ethnography
- Observational methods
- Participatory action research
- Qualitative research
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Biography
Biography
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
Research
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
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2021) 'A humanist university in a posthuman world: relations, responsibilities, and rights' British Journal of Sociology of Education , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Living Beyond Words: post-human reflections on making music with post-verbal people' Arts & Health 13, (1) 73-86 , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Respecting young people’s informal learning: Circumventing strategic policy evasions' Policy Futures in Education 147821031773622-147821031773622 , DOI Open access
(2017) 'The potential for lifelong learning in dementia: a post-humanist exploration' International Journal of Lifelong Education 1-17 , DOI Open access
(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
(2016) 'Student Community Engagement through a Posthuman Lens: The Trans-corporeality of Student and Sea' Posthuman Research Practices in Education Palgrave Macmillan UK 206-219 , DOI
(2014) 'Dialogue or Duel? A Critical Reflection on the Gendered Politics of Engaging and Impacting' The Entrepreneurial University Palgrave Macmillan UK 202-222 , DOI
(2012) 'Doing Diversity and Evading Equality: The Case of Student Work Placements in the Creative Sector' Educational Diversity Palgrave Macmillan UK 180-200 , DOI
(2009) 'Rethinking ‘failed transitions’ to higher education' Transitions and Learning through the Lifecourse 118-129 , DOI
'Dialogue or Duel? A Critical Reflection on the Gendered Politics of Engaging and Impacting' The Entrepreneurial University Palgrave Macmillan , DOI
Conference Papers
(2008) '‘Dead end kids in dead end jobs’? Reshaping debates on young people in jobs without training' Informa UK Limited 185-194 , DOI
(2004) 'The Corporeality of Learning: Women Students and the Body' Palgrave Macmillan UK 174-188 , DOI
Reports
(2014) Long term impacts of the Young Champion Experience with Exmoor National Park Authority.