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How the perspectives of young people who are excluded from school might influence research, policy and practice is a central question that will be addressed in this webinar. Dr Roma Thomas will draw from her doctoral research with excluded teenage boys. She will present findings which foreground the voices of research participants who took part in her mixed methods, ethnographic study of marginalisation through school exclusion. Dr Thomas’s study explores how the practice of professionals including teachers, teaching assistants, social workers and multidisciplinary professionals can contribute to possibilities for excluded boys.
The research, conducted within a Pupil Referral School, addresses questions of social justice and marginalisation including dimensions of gender and race. The webinar will be of particular interest to academics and practitioners who wish to explore theoretical and policy debates for improving policy and practice, and generating social change. It also offers approaches for conducting participative research with excluded young people.
Speaker
Dr Thomas is a Principal Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire, where she leads the Undergraduate Social Sciences portfolio. Her research interests include marginalisation, young masculinities, social work and interdisciplinary work with children, young people and families.