Meet the team

Project investigators

Jemma Bridgeman
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
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.

Harry Daniels
Harry Daniels

Job title - CO-PI

Department - Department of Education

Professor Of Education

Gavin Duffy
Gavin Duffy

Job title - Northern Ireland Lead

Department - School of Social Sciences Education and Social Work

Leadership and teacher perspectives

Hilary Emery
Hilary Emery

Job title - Knowledge Exchange lead

Department - Department of Education

Honorary Norham Fellow

Sara Evans-Lacko
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
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
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
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
Tony Gallagher

Job title - Co-Investigator

Department - School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work

Education policy and equity

Laura Lundy
Laura Lundy

Job title - Co-investigator

Department - School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work

Education, law and children's rights

Joan Madia
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
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
Aja Murray

Job title - Co-Investigator

Department - Psychology

The impact of school exclusion on longer term outcomes for youth.

Ingrid Obsuth
Ingrid Obsuth

Job title - A2B work-package lead

Department - Clinical and Health Psychology

Medium and long term impact of school exclusion

Jill Porter
Jill Porter

Job title - Co-Investigator

Department - Department of Education

Exclusion, agency responses and SEND

Sally Power
Sally Power

Job title - Co-Investigator

Department - WISERD, School of Social Sciences

Wales, public and private education provision, policy and inequality

Gareth Robinson
Gareth Robinson

Job title - Co-investigator

Department - School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work

Education in divided societies

James Robson
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

Alice Tawell
Alice Tawell

Job title - Co-investigator

Department - Department of Education

DPhil Candidate

Chris Taylor
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.

Annie Taylor
Annie Taylor

Job title - Research Officer

Department - Institute for Education, Community and Society

Michelle Templeton
Michelle Templeton

Job title - Research Fellow

Department - Centre for Children’s Rights

Children’s right to access a good quality education.

Ian Thompson
Ian Thompson

Job title - Co-PI

Department - Department of Education

Associate Professor Of English Education & Director Of PGCE

Kyann Zhang
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.