Research interests
Educational and social inequality
Social and climate justice
Class inequalities (in education and linked to the climate crisis)
Participatory research approaches (co-production and youth/community-led)
Education for sustainability
Postgraduate supervision
Lisa welcomes postgraduate research students working in her areas of research specialism. She is particularly interested in hearing from those interested in exploring social class identities in education and social class as linked to teaching in schools.
Current doctoral supervisions
* The Cultural Production of 'just' flood resilience (Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre for Water Cultures - co-supervision with EEI/Geography).
* An exploration of the importance of training in the front line delivery of the UK’s national strategy to combat modern slavery and human trafficking ( PhD in Education, University of Hull Scholarship, co-supervision Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation)
* The spaces of outdoor education, health and well-being in a City of Culture (co-supervising PhD in Geography, University of Hull Scholarship)
* Reconceptualising Teaching Excellence: Using Narrative Inquiry and Portraiture to Investigate Success and Teaching Excellence in a Northern University
Completed doctoral students:
* Children’s Perceptions of Climate Change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam - Dr Florence Halstead
* “What if you don't feel ‘disadvantaged’ and you’re being called that?”: an exploration of young people’s perspectives on the ‘disadvantaged’ label in an English secondary school - Dr Alexandra Jones
* Novice teachers’ emerging sense of professional identity explored through portrait methodology - Dr Ella Ait-Zaouit
* Operationalising the notion of a restorative school community: A case study in a socio-economically deprived area (co-supervised PhD with Law) - Dr Richard Rhodes
* Representations of Disability: A study of how people with an impairment are portrayed in equality and diversity training in UK Higher Education Institutions - Dr Martha Kember
* The effectiveness of current teachers’ continuous professional development: perceptions by supervisors, senior teachers and teachers in Muscat, Oman – Dr Khalid Shammakhi