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Smith, R., Mansfield, L. and Wainwright, E. (2025) 'Making sense of youth-led social action with, and for, young people from refugee backgrounds'. Leisure Studies. ISSN: 0261-4367

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Wainwright, E., McHugh, E. and Chappell, A. (2025) 'Journeying through in-between times and spaces: commuter students’ everyday practices of and strategies for university access and engagement', in Kraftl, P., Chen, Y., Holloway, S. and Kučerová, SR. (eds.) Handbook on Geographies of Education. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Hoskins, K., Wainwright, E., Mukherjee, U., Xu, Y. and Lebbakhar, A. (2024) 'The potential of Froebelian philosophy to support and engage low-income families in the early years'. Place of publication: Froebel Trust. Available at: https://www.froebel.org.uk/research-library/the-potential-of-froebelian-philosophy-to-support-and-engage-low-income-families-in-the-early-years.

Hoskins, K., Wainwright, E., Arabaci, R., Zhai, J., Gao, J. and Xu, Y. (2024) 'Engaging low-income families in education research: examining the challenges in Beijing and London'. Compare: a journal of comparative and international education, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 19. ISSN: 0305-7925

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Wainwright, E., Hoskins, K., Arabaci, R., Zhai, J., Gao, J. and Xu, Y. (2024) 'Researching the Everyday Educational Lives of Low-Income Families: The Importance of Researcher and Participant Contexts'. British Journal of Educational Studies, 73 (1). pp. 5 - 25. ISSN: 0007-1005

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Wainwright, E., Hoskins, K., McHugh, E. and Bhuyan, M. (2024) 'Analysis of Unicorn Theatre’s School Partnership Programme Evaluation'.

Wainwright, E., Hoskins, K. and Tallentire, J. (2024) 'City Family of Schools: parents’ views of future educational priorities'. Place of publication: Brunel University London.

Biesta, G., Wainwright, E. and Aldridge, D. (2023) 'The future of educational research: Observations from the outgoing editors of the British Educational Research Journal'. British Educational Research Journal, 49 (6). pp. 1133 - 1141. ISSN: 0141-1926

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Wainwright, E. and Hoskins, K. (2023) 'Spatial-temporal enactments of home-schooling among low-income families of primary-aged children'. Educational Review, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 19. ISSN: 0013-1911

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Wainwright, E., Barker, J., Chappell, A. and McHugh, E. (2023) '‘On the high street’ tuition for primary-aged children in London: Critiquing discourses of accessibility, attainment and assistance.'. Education 3-13: the professional journal for primary education, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 0300-4279

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Hoskins, K. and Wainwright, E. (2023) '‘I am not a teacher!’ The challenges of enacting home schooling during the Covid-19 pandemic among low-income families of primary-aged children'. Education 3-13: the professional journal for primary education, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 0300-4279

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Wainwright, E., Aldridge, D. and Biesta, G. (2023) 'Navigating the complex space of journal editing: Exploring the tensions between the intellectual and commercial dimensions of academic publishing'. British Educational Research Journal, 49 (1). pp. 1 - 4. ISSN: 0141-1926

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Smith, R., Mansfield, L. and Wainwright, E. (2023) '‘Do know harm’: Examining the intersecting capabilities of young people from refugee backgrounds through community sport and leisure programmes'. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 58 (7). pp. 1135 - 1153. ISSN: 1012-6902

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Biesta, G., Wainwright, E. and Aldridge, D. (2022) 'A case for diversity in educational research and educational practice'. British Educational Research Journal, 48 (1). pp. 1 - 4. ISSN: 0141-1926

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Smith, R., Mansfield, L. and Wainwright, E. (2021) '’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure'. Sport in Society, 25 (3). pp. 434 - 452. ISSN: 1743-0437

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Chappell, A., Wainwright, E., McHugh, E. and Gilhooly, K. (2020) 'The Experiences of Undergraduate Commuter Students'. Place of publication: Brunel University London.

Wainwright, E., Marandet, E. and McHugh, E. (2020) 'Spatiality and auto/biographical narratives of encounter in social housing', in Parsons, JM. and Chappell, A. (eds.) The Palgrave MacMillan Handbook of Auto/Biography.. London : Palgrave/MacMillan. pp. 263 - 284. ISBN 10: 3-030-31974-1. ISBN 13: 978-3-030-31973-1.

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Barker, J. and Wainwright, E. (2020) 'Geography matters: Spatiality, geography and auto/biography', in Parsons, JM. and Chappell, A. (eds.) The Palgrave MacMillan Handbook of Auto/Biography. London : Palgrave MacMillan. pp. 229 - 240. ISBN 10: 3-030-31974-1. ISBN 13: 978-3-030-31973-1.

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Norris, M. and Wainwright, E. (2020) 'Learning professional touch: an exploration of pre-registration Physiotherapy students’ experiences'. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice: an international journal of physical therapy, 38 (1). pp. 90 - 100. ISSN: 0959-3985

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Wainwright, E., Aldridge, D., Biesta, G. and Filippakou, O. (2020) 'Why educational research should remain mindful of its position: Questions of boundaries, identity and scale.'. British Educational Research Journal, 46 (1). pp. 1 - 5. ISSN: 0141-1926

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Wainwright, E., Chappell, A. and McHugh, E. (2019) 'Widening participation and a student ‘success’ assemblage: the materialities and mobilities of university'. Population, Space and Place, 26 (3). ISSN: 1544-8444

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Wainwright, E. and Watts, M. (2019) 'Social mobility in the slipstream: first-generation students’ narratives of university participation and family'. Educational Review, 73 (1). pp. 111 - 127. ISSN: 0013-1911

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Biesta, G., Filippakou, O., Wainwright, E. and Aldridge, D. (2019) 'Why educational research should not just solve problems, but should cause them as well'. British Educational Research Journal, 45 (1). pp. 1 - 4. ISSN: 0141-1926

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Wainwright, E., McHugh, E., Gilhooly, K., Hills, L., Ryder, D. and Langston, C. (2018) 'What works? Evaluation of the DOSH financial capability programme'. Place of publication: Brunel University London. Available at: https://www.fincap.org.uk/en/evaluations/evaluation-of-the-dosh-financial-capability-programme.

Chappell, A., McHugh, E. and Wainwright, E. (2018) 'Successful Students: Exploring the factors that encourage and enable students from a widening participation background to stay the course (Report)'. Place of publication: Brunel University London.

Wainwright, E. and Marandet, E. (2018) 'Housing Associations as institutional space: care and control in tenant welfare and training for work'. Area, 51 (2). pp. 216 - 224. ISSN: 0004-0894

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Aldridge, D., Biesta, G., Filippakou, O. and Wainwright, E. (2018) 'Why the nature of educational research should remain contested: A statement from the new editors of the British Educational Research Journal'. British Educational Research Journal, 44 (1). pp. 1 - 4. ISSN: 0141-1926

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Wainwright, E. and Marandet, E. (2017) 'Social housing and new forms of tenant engagement: welfare, governance and active citizenship. A report of findings.'.

Wainwright, E., Marandet, E. and Rizvi, S. (2017) 'The body-space relations of research(ed) on bodies: the experiences of becoming participant researchers'. Area, 50 (2). pp. 283 - 290. ISSN: 0004-0894

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Hills, L., Wainwright, E., Steenekamp, T. and Crawley, N. (2017) 'Evaluation of Street League and Made Outside the Classroom'.

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Wainwright, E. and Marandet, E. (2017) 'Education, parenting and family: the social geographies of family learning'. British Educational Research Journal, 43 (2). pp. 213 - 229. ISSN: 0141-1926

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Wainwright, E. and Marandet, E. (2016) 'Investigating new landscapes of training for work: the extended role of housing associations. A report of findings.'.

Wainwright, E. and Marandet, E. (2016) 'Geographies of Education: families, parenting and schools', in Abebe, T., Waters, J. and Skelton, T. (eds.) Labouring and Learning. Geographies of Children and Young People. Singapore : Springer. , 10. pp. 1 - 19. ISBN 13: 978-981-4585-97-2.

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Wainwright, E. (2015) '(Re)articulating identity through learning space: training for massage and reflexology', in Gale, NK. and McHale, JV. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Perspectives from Social Science and Law. Routledge. pp. 308 - 320. ISBN 10: 041581894X. ISBN 13: 978-0415818940.

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Wainwright, E., Barker, J., Ansell, N., Buckingham, S., Hemming, P. and Smith, F. (2014) 'Geographers out of place: Institutions, (inter)disciplinarity and identity'. Area, 46 (4). pp. 410 - 417. ISSN: 0004-0894

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Wainwright, E. and Marandet, E. (2013) 'Family learning and the socio-spatial practice of 'supportive' power'. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 34 (4). pp. 504 - 524. ISSN: 0142-5692

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Smith, F., Wainwright, E., Buckingham, S. and Marandet, E. (2011) 'Women, work-life balance and quality of life: case studies from the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland'. Gender, Place and Culture, 18 (5). pp. 603 - 610. ISSN: 0966-369X

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Wainwright, E., Marandet, E. and Rizvi, S. (2011) 'The Means of Correct Training: Embodied Regulation in Training for Body Work among Mothers'. . pp. 50 - 66.

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Wainwright, E., Marandet, E. and Rizvi, S. (2011) 'The means of correct training: Embodied regulation in training for body work among mothers'. Sociology of Health and Illness, 33 (2). pp. 220 - 236. ISSN: 1467-9566

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Wainwright, E. and Marandet, E. (2011) 'Geographies of family learning and aspirations of belonging'. Children's Geographies, 9 (1). pp. 95 - 109. ISSN: 1473-3285

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Wainwright, E., Marandet, E., Buckingham, S. and Smith, F. (2011) 'The training-to-work trajectory: pressures for and subversions to participation in the neoliberal learning market in the UK'. Gender, Place and Culture, 18 (5). pp. 635 - 654. ISSN: 0966-369X

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Wainwright, E., Marandeta, E., Smith, F. and Rizvi, S. (2010) 'The microgeographies of learning bodies and emotions in the 'classroom-salon''. Emotion, Space and Society, 3 (2). pp. 80 - 89. ISSN: 1755-4586

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Wainwright, E. and Marandet, E. (2010) 'Parents in higher education: Impacts of university learning on the self and the family'. Educational Review, 62 (4). pp. 449 - 465. ISSN: 0013-1911

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Marandet, E. and Wainwright, E. (2010) 'Invisible experiences: Understanding the choices and needs of university students with dependent children'. British Educational Research Journal, 36 (5). pp. 787 - 805. ISSN: 0141-1926

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Degen, M. and Wainwright, E. (2010) 'Wallpaper* city guides and gendering the urban aesthetic'. Tourist Studies, 10 (2). pp. 155 - 174. ISSN: 1468-7976

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Wainwright, E., Buckingham, S., Marandet, E. and Smith, F. (2010) ''Body training': Investigating the embodied training choices of/for mothers in West London'. Geoforum, 41 (3). pp. 489 - 497. ISSN: 0016-7185

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Revell, A. and Wainwright, E. (2009) 'What makes lectures 'unmissable'? Insights into teaching excellence and active learning'. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 33 (2). pp. 209 - 223. ISSN: 0309-8265

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Marandet, E. and Wainwright, E. (2009) 'Discourses of integration and exclusion: equal opportunities for university students with dependent children?'. Space and Polity, 13 (2). pp. 109 - 125. ISSN: 1356-2576

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Wainwright, E. (2009) 'Manufacturing space: Gendered cityscapes and industrial images in Dundee'. Environment and Planning A, 41 (2). pp. 336 - 352. ISSN: 0308-518X

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Wainwright, E. and Ansell, N. (2008) 'Geographies of sports development: The role of space and place', in Girginov, V. (ed.) Management of Sports Development. London : Elsevier. pp. 183 - 200. ISBN 10: 075068562X. ISBN 13: 9780750685627.

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