I am Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, and the current President of the British Sociological Association. I am also co-editor of the Routledge/SRHE ‘Research into Higher Education’ book series, and chair of the executive editors 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.