Professor Louise Archer

My research is in the sociology of education and education policy. I am interested in identities and inequalities of ‘race’, gender and social class within compulsory and post-compulsory education. For example, I have conducted research on issues concerning Muslim pupils, British Chinese pupils, urban young people and schooling and on widening participation in higher education. I am also interested in feminist theory and methodology.I am currently working on a jointly authored book (with Heather Mendick and Sumi Hollingworth), on Urban Youth and Education (Open University Press), a 5 year longitudinal ESRC project (with J. Osborne and J Dillon) on pupils’ aspirations and views of science and a British Academy funded project on ‘The Black Middle Classes and Education’.

I am currently on the editorial boards of Journal of Education Policy, Qualitative Research in Psychology and Teaching in Higher Education. I have previously served on the editorial boards of Gender and Education and Sociology.
 

• International Conference on Migration, Islam and Masculinities, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany (2007)
• VII Xornada de Pais e Nais Educando en Igualdade: Serivzo Galego de Igualdade, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2006)
• International Improving Student Learning Conference, Birmingham (2004)
• SEEC Annual Conference (2005)

I have also given keynote addresses at conferences concerned with equality and diversity (e.g. Leeds Metropolitan University, 2007; University of the Arts, 2007). I was co-convener of the 2005 BERA Keynote symposium on ‘Theorising ‘Race’ and Racisms in Education’

In addition to the supervision of doctoral students, I contribute to the MA programmes.

You can see a selected list of my publications here.