RESEARCH STUDENTS

I am working with the following research students who are each undertaking PhDs:

• Jeannette Silva 'Gender and Chilean Higher Education' (co-supervised with Cath Lambert)
• Nazia Hussain 'Negotiated Identity of Autonomy among Middle Class Working Women of Bangladesh' (co-supervision with Caroline Wright)   
• Chanatip Korpradit 'Women Leaders in Thailand: Gender, career and family' My PhD is focused on women in management and women holding leading positions in both public and private organisations and in particular how women's responsibilities towards their families affect their employment careers.  As the literature demonstrates so well, such responsibilities lead to the doubt shift as women have to juggle between the two 'greedy' spheres of work and family.  My work is based on quantitative (questionnaire) and qualitative (interview) methods.  For further information email me at pitanahc@yahoo.com
• Samantha Lyle (ESRC Funded) 'Gender, Class and Graduate Careers' (Co-supervision with Carol Wolkowitz)
• Ruth Morton (ESRC Funded) 'Home Schooling' (co-supervision with Andrew Parker)

 I also had the privilege of supervising the following to successful completion of their doctorates:

• Maud Perrier 'A comparative study of younger and older mothers' (Co-supervision with Caroline Wright).  Maud now has a permanent position in the Department of Sociology, University of Bristol 
• Analia Meo 'Social class, identities and secondary schooling: an ethnographic study in two schools of the City of Beunos Aires' Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellowship (co-supervised with Andrew Parker).  Post PhD Analia received an ESRC post-doctoral award with Professor Stephen Ball at the Institute of Education, University of London. 
• Janice Smith 'Identities in Transition: Agency in the Working Lives of Female Careers Practitioners' This study explores how agency permeates the narratives of four Black and three White female careers practitioners as they negotiate their changing identities in the light of social inequalities at work.  Using poststructuralist theory of the 'self-in-process', combined with a strong materialist perspective, the thesis aims to demonstrate how women's career choices are both autonomous and constrained. For further information email me at jlgsmith56@hotmail.com.  Janice continues with her work in careers education.
• Helen Marson-Smith (ESRC Funded) 'Gender, Class and Choice: A Study of an Independent School' (Co-supervision with Andrew Parker).  Post graduation Helen worked at the University of Oxford and is now employed by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). 
• Amanda Arbouin 'African Caribbean Students in Higher Education: Gendered Perspectives'  Against the backdrop of widening participation policy, this research project investigates the dynamics of 'race' and gender in a UK Higher Education context.  Among the African Caribbean cohort, the over-representation of women and under-representation of men provides an interesting focus for exploring Black feminist perspectives and Black masculinities. For further information email amanda.arbouin@yahoo.co.uk. Amanda has a post at the University of Derby.   
• Kellie Ann Evans 'Prison Education in Jamaica' For further information email me at karejam@yahoo.com Marriage, baby and doctorate - Kellie successfully finished 2008.  She is now employed in the Turks and Caicos as a director of human resource development.
• Samaya Farooq 'Women, Sport and Islam' (ESRC Funded) (Co-supervision with Andrew Parker) Samaya completed successfully 2009.  She holds a post-doctoral award at the University of Gloucester.
• Elsa Huang 'Single Women in Taiwan' For further information email me at h_huang74@hotmail.com.  Elsa completed successfully August 2006.  She now works in Taiwan in her mother's business.
• Judy Purkis 'Retention of Midwives in the NHS' (ESRC Funded) For further information email me at j.c.purkis@warwick.ac.uk.  Judy successfully completed October 2006. (co-supervised Gillian Hundt) and works in the medical school at the University of Warwick
• Arwen Raddon 'Gendered Perspectives on Space, Time and Distance Learning' (ESRC Funded) Drawing on the concepts of time and space, and with a particular interest in gender relations and feminist poststructuralist perspectives, this study looks at distance learners' experiences of combining their home life, work life and postgraduate studies. For further information email me at A.Raddon@le.ac.uk.  Arwen completed successfully in 2005.  She now holds a permanent position at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.
• Lynn Clouder 'Becoming Professional: an exploration of the social construction of identity'. Successfully completed 2001.  Lynn is now a Research Fellow in Work-based Learning and Acting Director of the Centre for Interprofessional E-Learning (CIPeL) based at Coventry University. 
• Jackie Pritchard Successfully completed 2002.  Although now retired, Jackie continues to take a strong interest in her research in community nursing.  
• Jean Rath. Warwick Postgraduate Teaching Fellow. Successfully completed 2001.  After a period in New Zealand, Jean has returned and works at the University of Oxford.
• Rav Jayram '   Successfully completed 2000.  Rav now works as an independent consultant.  
• Sandra Millar 'Learning Faith'. ESRC Funded. Successfully completed 1999.  Post-PhD Sandra became ordained and works as a priest in the Church of England.