About

I am Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, and an executive editor of the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

My research focuses primarily on the sociology of education and I have conducted a wide range of projects in this area on, for example, international student mobility, young graduates and lifelong learning, the experiences of higher education students with dependent children, and the changing nature of students’ unions. I am also interested in family and parenting practices, and how these articulate with education.

I am currently leading a large cross-national project (‘EuroStudents‘), which is exploring how the higher education student is understood in different European countries, and by different social actors. I have also recently completed two books: Sharing Care: Equal and Primary Carer Fathers and Early Years Parenting, with Paul Hodkinson, and Materialities and Mobilities in Education, with Johanna Waters, for the Routledge series on the Foundations and Futures of Education.