Karen Broadhurst Healey

Biographic Data

ID201816
NAMEKaren Broadhurst Healey
GIVEN NAMESKaren Broadhurst
FAMILY NAMEHealey
SIGNATUREHEALEY K B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Manchester
ORCID0000-0001-6044-7830
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Typologising the corporatisation of parent roles in the ‘modern’ governance of Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in subordinated communities

    Open AccessKaren Broadhurst HealeyARTICLEOxford Review of Education2025

    This article develops and explores a typology illuminating the types of parent roles in the governance of Multi-Academy Trusts in the corporatised field of school governance and leadership. Policy has positioned parents as objects of managerialist and corporatised practice. This article draws on data generated through observations and interviews with corporate actors and parents from three multi-academy trusts. Such a typology seeks to describe a…

  • International students and everyday multiculturalism: Rethinking ‘connection’ through mundane sites of encounter

    Open AccessJenna Mittelmeier, Daian Huang et al.ARTICLEHigher Education2025

    Dominant narratives of international students in the existing literature paint them as ‘missing’ or living ‘in parallel’ to their local communities, predominantly through evaluating the composition of their friendship networks. In this study, we query whether the use of a new conceptual framework can provide alternative explanations for these deficit framings. Using the lens of ‘everyday multiculturalism’, we explore instead how (international) s…

  • The mattering of place in the corporatised governance of schooling in subordinated communities

    Open AccessKaren Broadhurst HealeyARTICLEJournal of Educational…2025References: 4

    In this article, I critically examine how place matters for parental engagement in the governance of schooling in subordinated communities. Thinking with Barad’s concept of intra-action, I explore how place physically embodies meaning, in its entanglement with human actors to configure corporatised versions of parental engagement. I argue that place acts co- agentically in an entangled intra-action with corporate actors managing parents’ engageme…

  • What Do Doors Do? Door Storyings, Matterings, Adventurings, and Commonings

    Open AccessC A Taylor, Jo Albin-Clark et al.ARTICLEQualitative Inquiry2024

    What do doors do? Open Close Invite In Shut Out Jam Stick Wedge open Welcome: Entice and Invite Offer a glimpse into Bar SLAM SHUT Get kicked in Get kicked shut Splinter Warp Hang Sit ajar Gently linger in our minds Cause hurt and separation Affecting thoughts Moments of joy or pain Longing, Waiting Fearful longing, Fearful waiting, Anticipating Wondering Haunting “Come-on-in” This article is based on research-creation experimentations arising fr…

  • Mapping the discursive formations of ‘effective’ school governance and the role of parents

    Open AccessKaren Broadhurst HealeyARTICLEJournal of Educational…2024Cited by: 2References: 5

    Discourses concerned with responsibilisation and expertise have seen the ascendency and fall in who is positioned to do 'effective' school governance and what that 'doing' is. Using the four phases of the moon as a metaphor I map the discursive formations of 'effective' school governance and the relational structuring of parents. This mapping exercise, through a simple metaphor, has produced a heuristic construct through which questions can be as…