Project investigators
Jemma Bridgeman
Job title - Research Officer
Department - WISERD
I am interested in how we can support young people facing barriers in the education system.
Rachel Condry
Job title - Co-investigator
Department - Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law
The relationship between school exclusion and youth offending; youth justice and school exclusion.
Gavin Duffy
Job title - Northern Ireland Lead
Department - School of Social Sciences Education and Social Work
Leadership and teacher perspectives
Hilary Emery
Job title - Knowledge Exchange lead
Department - Department of Education
Honorary Norham Fellow
Sara Evans-Lacko
Job title - To evaluate the economic impacts associated with school exclusion
Department - Care Policy and Evaluation Centre
I have an interest in the social and ecnomic impacts of school exclusion. In particular, I also do work looking at how mental health problems impact on social exclusion and how social exclusion impacts on mental health and the associated costs of both of these pathways.
Rebecca Eynon
Job title - Co-Investigator
Department - Department of Education and Oxford Internet Institute
The relationships between digital inequalities and school exclusion. The use of innovative digital methods to capture young people’s life experiences.
Mina Fazel
Job title - Co-investigator
Department - Department of Psychiatry
The importance of ensuring access to mental health services and the impact this can have in altering the trajectory of a CYP at high risk of exclusion
Lucinda Ferguson
Job title - Co-investigator
Department - Faculty of Law
Examining the relationship between the legal framework and practice of permanent exclusion from school, particularly the exercise of discretion in decision-making.
Tony Gallagher
Job title - Co-Investigator
Department - School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work
Education policy and equity
Laura Lundy
Job title - Co-investigator
Department - School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work
Education, law and children's rights
Joan Madia
Job title - Researcher work package A.2b
Department - Department of Sociology and Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences
Health and Educational inequality, Policy evaluation, and Causal Inference.
Gillean McCluskey
Job title - Co-Investigator, Scotland lead, with responsibility for W/P A1
Department - Moray House School of Education and Sport
Improving outcomes for children and young people most at risk of exclusion. Understanding drivers of exclusion. Improving responses to children and young people and their families most at risk of exclusion
Aja Murray
Job title - Co-Investigator
Department - Psychology
The impact of school exclusion on longer term outcomes for youth.
Ingrid Obsuth
Job title - A2B work-package lead
Department - Clinical and Health Psychology
Medium and long term impact of school exclusion
Jill Porter
Job title - Co-Investigator
Department - Department of Education
Exclusion, agency responses and SEND
Sally Power
Job title - Co-Investigator
Department - WISERD, School of Social Sciences
Wales, public and private education provision, policy and inequality
Gareth Robinson
Job title - Co-investigator
Department - School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work
Education in divided societies
James Robson
Job title - Investigating experiences of school exclusion and the implications of exclusion for young people and their families.
Department - Department of Education
Departmental Lecturer In Higher Education And Associate Director of Skope
Chris Taylor
Job title - Jurisdiction lead for Wales and lead for work package A2a
Department - SPARK - Social Science Research Park
Patterns of recorded school exclusions, exclusion from the classroom and policies about educational participation.
Michelle Templeton
Job title - Research Fellow
Department - Centre for Children’s Rights
Children’s right to access a good quality education.
Ian Thompson
Job title - Co-PI
Department - Department of Education
Associate Professor Of English Education & Director Of PGCE
Kyann Zhang
Job title - To evaluate the economic impacts associated with school exclusion
Department - Care Policy and Evaluation Centre
I have an interest in the social and economic impacts of school exclusion. In particular, I also do work looking at how mental health problems impact on social exclusion and how social exclusion impacts on mental health and the associated costs of both of these pathways.
Knowledge Exchange Panel
The Knowledge Exchange Panel was initially drawn from key agencies, voluntary and Third Sector organisations across the UK who we worked with in the development of the project.
Advisory Group
The Advisory Groups, representing the four jurisdictions, comprise a mix of academics and users and will direct our team to other research and activity in the field, as well as commenting on the progress of the Excluded Lives research.