Dr Ellen McHugh
Senior Lecturer in Education
Gaskell Building 230
- Email: ellen.mchugh@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268977
Research area(s)
Ellen’s research focuses on educational inequalities in higher education with particular reference to students from under-represented and marginalised backgrounds. In particular, her work explores the inequalities that intersect in the educational spaces where people live, meet and study with a focus on student poverty and the lived experiences of students.
Research Interests
University students and their experiences;
Food poverty in educational spaces;
Children from Armed Forces families;
Mobility and belonging.
Research grants and projects
Research Projects
Grants
Funder: British Academy/Leverhulme
Duration: October 2023 - March 2025
Funder: Global Lives Interdisciplinary Research Centre
Duration: January 2021 - August 2021
This project is exploring the experiences of 'grown up' children from military families who are 'missing' from the current profile of research about the military community.
Funder: Global Lives Interdisciplinary Research Centre
Duration: December 2019 - August 2020
Funder: Access and Participation Fund
Duration: September 2019 - March 2020
Project details
2024-2025, Chappell, A and McHugh, E. 'Service Children's Champion' role in supporting children from armed forces families funded by the Research and Development Office, Innovation Voucher. This project is evaluating the role of the Service Children's Champion in North Yorkshire Council, (Co-PIs: £4594.24)
2023-2025, McHugh, E. and Wainwright, E. New spaces of free food provision: geographies of welfare, need and support among university students, British Academy/ Leverhulme, (PI: £10,000)
2023-2024, Hoskins, K., McHugh, E. and Wainwright, E. Evaluation of the Unicorn Theatre’s Schools' Partnership Programme, Innovation Voucher, Brunel University London (Co-PIs: £5000)