Professor Emma Wainwright
Professor
Topics
Social and educational inequalities
Education, family and parenting
Higher Education, student experience. widening participation, identity and inclusion
Social housing, welfare and welfare-to-work
PhD projects for research students
Research supervision
Current Supervision:
Valeria Ferriera (PhD student - starting April 2025)
Hannah Filer (PhD student) Dance, Communities and Wellbeing
Karen Western (EdD student) Grief and bereavement support for university students
Gemma Cook (ESRC GUDTP student)
Sarah Blakemore (PhD student) A child rights-based approach to responding to safeguarding incidents in international organisations
Completed Supervisions:
Rotimi Taiwo (PhD student): Curriculum and Cultural Nationalism: The Case of Yorubaland, 1861 – 1931 (successful completion October 2024)
Robyn Smith (PhD student) Participatory approaches to explore refugee youth wellbeing and leisure (successful completion 2023)
Deborah Bell (EdD student): The reality of School Place preference – a parent’s view (successful completion 2022)
Sichen Chen (PhD student): An investigation into how Chinese university students’ learning experiences influence their beliefs, values, and attitudes of EFL learning (successful completion 2022)
Saima Salehjee (PhD student): The Making Of a Scientist: A study of Sci-ID Transformations (successful completion April 2017)
Yusi Cheng (PhD student): Examining the transformative role of music education in developing students' understandings of sustainable development (successful completion May 2015)
Frank Offer (EdD student): Full participation in education and training to age 18 in England: perspectives from policy and life-worlds of young people (successful completion July 2013)
Research Development Advisor
Gemma Cook (ESRC GUDTP student)
Alejandra Carillo (ESRC GUDTP student)