Emma Wainwright
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 281740 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Emma Wainwright |
| PRENOMES | Emma |
| SOBRENOME | Wainwright |
| ASSINATURA | WAINWRIGHT E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6490-7160 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The impact of technology
Purpose Despite growing awareness that digital technology has both positive and negative implications, the role of specific features in shaping users’ overall well-being remains inadequately understood. We aim to investigate the relationship between technology features, type of task, users’ resources and well-being, to address conflicting empirical evidence in the extant literature. Design/methodology/approach We draw on the Conservation of Resou…
Feeding Hungry Students
In 2023, one in four UK universities was reported to be operating a food bank for their students amidst a ‘cost‐of‐learning crisis’. With nearly half of students facing financial difficulty, student food poverty has become a vital issue in contemporary higher education, with food banks marking an important addition to on‐campus student support. This paper adds to the growing extant literature on food banks by empirically and conceptually examinin…
Making sense of youth-led social action with, and for, young people from refugee backgrounds
Within Western resettlement countries, leisure has been positioned as a tool for achieving top-down policy goals. Yet, minimal attention has been directed towards understanding how young-forced migrants make sense of and experience leisure within the daily physically, psychologically and socially repressive regulations and processes of the UK asylum system. This novel paper examines how young people from refugee backgrounds engage in and make sen…
Researching the Everyday Educational Lives of Low-Income Families
This paper highlights the importance of considering both researcher and participant contexts when exploring everyday educational lives. It emerges during a period of increasing and sustained social inequality in England, and against a backdrop of increasingly tight research timeframes and resources in higher education. Drawing on a project engaging low-income families in Greater London, the paper takes the everyday as its conceptual focus and que…
Spatial–temporal enactments of home-schooling among low-income families of primary-aged children
This paper focuses on spatial-temporal enactments of homeschooling among low-income families of primary-aged children in England.COVID-19 re-set boundaries and spaces of formal education for children across the globe, bringing it directly into homes and shifting the involvement of parents/carers in their children's education.In England, "home-school" engagement was brought into sharp focus as "home" became a more visible quasipublic space through…
Engaging low-income families in education research
This comparative paper considers the similar challenges encountered in Beijing (China) and Greater London (England) when engaging low-income families in education research. Through semi-structured interviews with 10 parents/caregivers in Beijing and 13 parents in Greater London, we explored perceptions of the barriers to participation, the influence of identity on involvement, and ways to better enable their contribution to education research. We…
Navigating the complex space of journal editing
Navigating the complex space of journal editing
The future of educational research
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Do know harm
Young people from refugee backgrounds have been repeatedly denied the ability to lead a life that they value. Community sport and leisure has been positioned as a tool to foster positive wellbeing experiences for these young people living in Western resettlement countries. Drawing on qualitative data from a Participatory Action Research project in London, England, we apply Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach to examine how the young people made sens…
The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography
This chapter is the front matter to Section Four: Geography Matters: Spatiality and Auto/Biography; edited by John Barker and Emma Wainwright.
Why educational research should remain mindful of its position
Why educational research should remain mindful of its position: Questions of boundaries, identity and scale
Widening participation and a student “success” assemblage
This paper takes an assemblage approach to extend knowledge and understanding of widening participation (WP) in the United Kingdom. We reflect on the identification and experiences of a WP student population—how this population has been marked out, labelled, and considered through policy and intervention, alongside the materialities and mobilities that shape the lived experiences of these students. Using questionnaire findings, narrative intervie…
Why educational research should not just solve problems, but should cause them as well
This article also appears in: BERA Journals Virtual Issue: Rethinking the futures of education in the Nordic countries - Education in an Era of Risk - the Role of Educational Research for the Future
Housing Associations as institutional space
Housing Associations (HAs) operate at the community level between the state, market and individual and, in the current political context of austerity, state roll‐back and welfare reform, have been increasingly tasked with focusing on the “welfare” of their tenants. This has included “encouraging” a trajectory of training for work for those tenants who are unemployed; a trajectory that is aimed at producing a certain type of “active” and appropria…
Why the nature of educational research should remain contested
As we begin our custodianship, we want to engage with a set of questions that emerges from the state of contemporary education: What counts as educational research?What, for that matter, counts as education?Is there a 'gold standard' of educational research?Who is best placed or best qualified to carry out educational research?Who are the readers of our journal and how do they read it?How can a journal focusing on the four nations of Britain also…
Education, parenting and family
This paper explores the relationship between education, parenting and family through the prism and particularities of family learning. Family learning is an example of an educational initiative, primarily aimed at parents and linked to wider policy concerns, which can be explored through a mapping of its social geographies; family learning is played out across and productive of different sites, spaces and identities. Based on qualitative research…
Geographers out of place
Ten years ago, the decision was taken to close B runel U niversity's D epartment of G eography and E arth S ciences and its undergraduate programmes. Since this time, most of the human geographers have remained at B runel, but now work from beyond the boundaries of conventional academic G eography. In this paper we argue that this situation, which is not uncommon for geographers in the UK and elsewhere, has significant implications for both indiv…
Family learning and the socio-spatial practice of ‘supportive’ power
Family learning has been an important mode of education deployed by governments in the United Kingdom over the past 20 years, and is positioned at the nexus of various social policy areas whose focus stretch beyond education. Drawing on qualitative research exploring mothers’ participation in seven different family learning programmes across West London, this paper looks at how this type of education is mobilised; that is, how mothers are ‘encour…
Geographies of family learning and aspirations of belonging
In recent years the ‘geography/ies of education’ has emerged as a more coherent and defined area of research. Education in this context has been primarily interpreted as either compulsory or higher education and figured around the geographies of school and university. Other education sectors and spaces – both formal and informal – have been less visible. This paper gives a geographical reading of an area of further education that has been hithert…
Women, work–life balance and quality of life
In this editorial we introduce the key themes explored by the articles that make up this themed section on 'Women, work–life balance and quality of life'. As a collection, the articles emphasise the complexity of trying to define what work–life balance means to different groups of men and women in three locales (Bristol, West London and Dublin), highlighting that trying to attribute meaning to this concept is at the very least problematic. They d…
The training-to-work trajectory
The UK government has emphasised the role of lifelong learning in eradicating social exclusion and improving productivity and the skills base. With a neoliberal rationale that normalises economic participation, the unemployed are being offered (re)training to enable a swift transition to paid employment and encourage ‘personal responsibility’. Taking a critical feminist approach framed by the social control model of lifelong learning and Foucault…
The means of correct training
In the main, the literature on body work has focused on the workplace, overlooking the spaces and places of training for work. Drawing on tutors' understandings of teaching and mothers' varied experiences of training for body work in areas of health, beauty and social care, this paper explores the learning environment as a liminal space. For many mothers, it is a space that sits at the nexus of home, work and leisure and is where the individual m…
Wallpaper* City Guides and Gendering the Urban Aesthetic
Cities are socio-cultural constructions in which physical spaces stand in a symbiotic relationship with their representations. In this context, city guides play a crucial role in framing how urban spaces are mediated and engaged with. In spite of critical readings of such guides, a gender analysis is lacking. In 2006 the first Wallpaper* city guide series was launched, advertising themselves as design-conscious handbooks. In this article we incor…
Invisible experiences
This paper analyses the results of a research project on the experiences and learning needs of students with dependent children in a 1960s university. The findings are based on semi‐structured interviews with university services and academic staff, as well as a questionnaire survey among students with dependent children and follow‐up in‐depth interviews with a sample of 18 of these students. The paper shows that, for those surveyed, future employ…
Body training’
Invisible experiences
This paper analyses the results of a research project on the experiences and learning needs of students with dependent children in a 1960s university. The findings are based on semi‐structured interviews with university services and academic staff, as well as a questionnaire survey among students with dependent children and follow‐up in‐depth interviews with a sample of 18 of these students. The paper shows that, for those surveyed, future employ…
The training-to-work trajectory
The UK government has emphasised the role of lifelong learning in eradicating social exclusion and improving productivity and the skills base. With a neoliberal rationale that normalises economic participation, the unemployed are being offered (re)training to enable a swift transition to paid employment and encourage ‘personal responsibility’. Taking a critical feminist approach framed by the social control model of lifelong learning and Foucault…
Women, work–life balance and quality of life
In this editorial we introduce the key themes explored by the articles that make up this themed section on 'Women, work–life balance and quality of life'. As a collection, the articles emphasise the complexity of trying to define what work–life balance means to different groups of men and women in three locales (Bristol, West London and Dublin), highlighting that trying to attribute meaning to this concept is at the very least problematic. They d…
What Makes Lectures ‘Unmissable’? Insights into Teaching Excellence and Active Learning
This research explores ‘teaching excellence’ by examining the perceptions of geography academics and students at Brunel University as to what makes a lecture ‘unmissable’. The findings from 10 interviews with lecturers and five focus groups with undergraduate students suggest that whilst there is probably no such thing as an entirely unmissable lecture, attendance rates are significantly enhanced by three key factors: (i) a high degree of partici…
The liminality of training spaces
Dundee's Jute mills and factories
Taking Dundee’s jute industry as its focus, this paper provides a geographical reading of the architectural form, design and layout of the mills and factories of the late nineteenth century. By tracking the change from the multi-storey to the shed system, it emphasises the importance of the internal geographies of the production process. And drawing upon Foucault’s notion of disciplinary power, notably his rule of functional sites and techniques …
Geographers out of place
Ten years ago, the decision was taken to close B runel U niversity's D epartment of G eography and E arth S ciences and its undergraduate programmes. Since this time, most of the human geographers have remained at B runel, but now work from beyond the boundaries of conventional academic G eography. In this paper we argue that this situation, which is not uncommon for geographers in the UK and elsewhere, has significant implications for both indiv…
Detailing spaces and processes of resistance
Why educational research should not just solve problems, but should cause them as well
This article also appears in: BERA Journals Virtual Issue: Rethinking the futures of education in the Nordic countries - Education in an Era of Risk - the Role of Educational Research for the Future
The means of correct training
In the main, the literature on body work has focused on the workplace, overlooking the spaces and places of training for work. Drawing on tutors' understandings of teaching and mothers' varied experiences of training for body work in areas of health, beauty and social care, this paper explores the learning environment as a liminal space. For many mothers, it is a space that sits at the nexus of home, work and leisure and is where the individual m…
Geographies of family learning and aspirations of belonging
In recent years the ‘geography/ies of education’ has emerged as a more coherent and defined area of research. Education in this context has been primarily interpreted as either compulsory or higher education and figured around the geographies of school and university. Other education sectors and spaces – both formal and informal – have been less visible. This paper gives a geographical reading of an area of further education that has been hithert…
Do know harm
Young people from refugee backgrounds have been repeatedly denied the ability to lead a life that they value. Community sport and leisure has been positioned as a tool to foster positive wellbeing experiences for these young people living in Western resettlement countries. Drawing on qualitative data from a Participatory Action Research project in London, England, we apply Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach to examine how the young people made sens…
Why educational research should remain mindful of its position
Why educational research should remain mindful of its position: Questions of boundaries, identity and scale
Housing Associations as institutional space
Housing Associations (HAs) operate at the community level between the state, market and individual and, in the current political context of austerity, state roll‐back and welfare reform, have been increasingly tasked with focusing on the “welfare” of their tenants. This has included “encouraging” a trajectory of training for work for those tenants who are unemployed; a trajectory that is aimed at producing a certain type of “active” and appropria…
Education, parenting and family
This paper explores the relationship between education, parenting and family through the prism and particularities of family learning. Family learning is an example of an educational initiative, primarily aimed at parents and linked to wider policy concerns, which can be explored through a mapping of its social geographies; family learning is played out across and productive of different sites, spaces and identities. Based on qualitative research…
Body training’
Discourses of Integration and Exclusion
Despite the growth and diversification of the student population, many British universities are still organised to cater for young students without caring responsibilities. Drawing on feminist frameworks of gender equality, this paper explores the ways in which governmental discourse of equal opportunities is articulated, sustained and resisted by staff and studying parents in a 1960s university. While many respondents attempt to comply with the …
A new deal for lone parents? Training lone parents for work in West London
In this paper we explore the impacts of the training programmes offered to lone mothers with young children on the Government's ‘New Deal for Lone Parents’ in one local labour market: West London. Our research suggests that regulatory workfare policies are (re)producing and reinforcing gendered inequalities in the labour market by encouraging lone mothers to undertake training in feminised occupational areas such as childcare. We will argue that …
Constant Medical Supervision”
Family learning and the socio-spatial practice of ‘supportive’ power
Family learning has been an important mode of education deployed by governments in the United Kingdom over the past 20 years, and is positioned at the nexus of various social policy areas whose focus stretch beyond education. Drawing on qualitative research exploring mothers’ participation in seven different family learning programmes across West London, this paper looks at how this type of education is mobilised; that is, how mothers are ‘encour…
Wallpaper* City Guides and Gendering the Urban Aesthetic
Cities are socio-cultural constructions in which physical spaces stand in a symbiotic relationship with their representations. In this context, city guides play a crucial role in framing how urban spaces are mediated and engaged with. In spite of critical readings of such guides, a gender analysis is lacking. In 2006 the first Wallpaper* city guide series was launched, advertising themselves as design-conscious handbooks. In this article we incor…
Making sense of youth-led social action with, and for, young people from refugee backgrounds
Within Western resettlement countries, leisure has been positioned as a tool for achieving top-down policy goals. Yet, minimal attention has been directed towards understanding how young-forced migrants make sense of and experience leisure within the daily physically, psychologically and socially repressive regulations and processes of the UK asylum system. This novel paper examines how young people from refugee backgrounds engage in and make sen…
Navigating the complex space of journal editing
Navigating the complex space of journal editing
The future of educational research
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Widening participation and a student “success” assemblage
This paper takes an assemblage approach to extend knowledge and understanding of widening participation (WP) in the United Kingdom. We reflect on the identification and experiences of a WP student population—how this population has been marked out, labelled, and considered through policy and intervention, alongside the materialities and mobilities that shape the lived experiences of these students. Using questionnaire findings, narrative intervie…
Constant Medical Supervision”
Dundee's Jute mills and factories
Taking Dundee’s jute industry as its focus, this paper provides a geographical reading of the architectural form, design and layout of the mills and factories of the late nineteenth century. By tracking the change from the multi-storey to the shed system, it emphasises the importance of the internal geographies of the production process. And drawing upon Foucault’s notion of disciplinary power, notably his rule of functional sites and techniques …
The liminality of training spaces
Constructing Gendered Workplace ‘Types’
Victorian and Edwardian Dundee was labelled a ‘woman's town’ due to the high proportion of women who worked in the city's staple jute industry. In this article, drawing on a range of contemporary sources, I use the work of feminist historians and Foucauldian notions of discourse to interrogate this label and explore why and how working women came to be marked as particularly problematic. Further, in questioning this label, I demonstrate how two s…
Detailing spaces and processes of resistance
A new deal for lone parents? Training lone parents for work in West London
In this paper we explore the impacts of the training programmes offered to lone mothers with young children on the Government's ‘New Deal for Lone Parents’ in one local labour market: West London. Our research suggests that regulatory workfare policies are (re)producing and reinforcing gendered inequalities in the labour market by encouraging lone mothers to undertake training in feminised occupational areas such as childcare. We will argue that …
Discourses of Integration and Exclusion
Despite the growth and diversification of the student population, many British universities are still organised to cater for young students without caring responsibilities. Drawing on feminist frameworks of gender equality, this paper explores the ways in which governmental discourse of equal opportunities is articulated, sustained and resisted by staff and studying parents in a 1960s university. While many respondents attempt to comply with the …
What Makes Lectures ‘Unmissable’? Insights into Teaching Excellence and Active Learning
This research explores ‘teaching excellence’ by examining the perceptions of geography academics and students at Brunel University as to what makes a lecture ‘unmissable’. The findings from 10 interviews with lecturers and five focus groups with undergraduate students suggest that whilst there is probably no such thing as an entirely unmissable lecture, attendance rates are significantly enhanced by three key factors: (i) a high degree of partici…
Manufacturing Space
Recent interest in the material and discursive construction of built environments has largely focused on the iconic skyscraper as a symbol of 'modern' global and corporate power. Within this theoretical frame, industrial landscapes are given short shrift. I seek to redress this by taking the example of Victorian and Edwardian Dundee and exploring the construction of a specific manufacturing space by the city's industrial elite. Moreover, this pap…
Wallpaper* City Guides and Gendering the Urban Aesthetic
Cities are socio-cultural constructions in which physical spaces stand in a symbiotic relationship with their representations. In this context, city guides play a crucial role in framing how urban spaces are mediated and engaged with. In spite of critical readings of such guides, a gender analysis is lacking. In 2006 the first Wallpaper* city guide series was launched, advertising themselves as design-conscious handbooks. In this article we incor…
Invisible experiences
This paper analyses the results of a research project on the experiences and learning needs of students with dependent children in a 1960s university. The findings are based on semi‐structured interviews with university services and academic staff, as well as a questionnaire survey among students with dependent children and follow‐up in‐depth interviews with a sample of 18 of these students. The paper shows that, for those surveyed, future employ…
Body training’
Geographies of family learning and aspirations of belonging
In recent years the ‘geography/ies of education’ has emerged as a more coherent and defined area of research. Education in this context has been primarily interpreted as either compulsory or higher education and figured around the geographies of school and university. Other education sectors and spaces – both formal and informal – have been less visible. This paper gives a geographical reading of an area of further education that has been hithert…
Women, work–life balance and quality of life
In this editorial we introduce the key themes explored by the articles that make up this themed section on 'Women, work–life balance and quality of life'. As a collection, the articles emphasise the complexity of trying to define what work–life balance means to different groups of men and women in three locales (Bristol, West London and Dublin), highlighting that trying to attribute meaning to this concept is at the very least problematic. They d…
The training-to-work trajectory
The UK government has emphasised the role of lifelong learning in eradicating social exclusion and improving productivity and the skills base. With a neoliberal rationale that normalises economic participation, the unemployed are being offered (re)training to enable a swift transition to paid employment and encourage ‘personal responsibility’. Taking a critical feminist approach framed by the social control model of lifelong learning and Foucault…
The means of correct training
In the main, the literature on body work has focused on the workplace, overlooking the spaces and places of training for work. Drawing on tutors' understandings of teaching and mothers' varied experiences of training for body work in areas of health, beauty and social care, this paper explores the learning environment as a liminal space. For many mothers, it is a space that sits at the nexus of home, work and leisure and is where the individual m…
Family learning and the socio-spatial practice of ‘supportive’ power
Family learning has been an important mode of education deployed by governments in the United Kingdom over the past 20 years, and is positioned at the nexus of various social policy areas whose focus stretch beyond education. Drawing on qualitative research exploring mothers’ participation in seven different family learning programmes across West London, this paper looks at how this type of education is mobilised; that is, how mothers are ‘encour…
Geographers out of place
Ten years ago, the decision was taken to close B runel U niversity's D epartment of G eography and E arth S ciences and its undergraduate programmes. Since this time, most of the human geographers have remained at B runel, but now work from beyond the boundaries of conventional academic G eography. In this paper we argue that this situation, which is not uncommon for geographers in the UK and elsewhere, has significant implications for both indiv…
Education, parenting and family
This paper explores the relationship between education, parenting and family through the prism and particularities of family learning. Family learning is an example of an educational initiative, primarily aimed at parents and linked to wider policy concerns, which can be explored through a mapping of its social geographies; family learning is played out across and productive of different sites, spaces and identities. Based on qualitative research…
Why the nature of educational research should remain contested
As we begin our custodianship, we want to engage with a set of questions that emerges from the state of contemporary education: What counts as educational research?What, for that matter, counts as education?Is there a 'gold standard' of educational research?Who is best placed or best qualified to carry out educational research?Who are the readers of our journal and how do they read it?How can a journal focusing on the four nations of Britain also…
Widening participation and a student “success” assemblage
This paper takes an assemblage approach to extend knowledge and understanding of widening participation (WP) in the United Kingdom. We reflect on the identification and experiences of a WP student population—how this population has been marked out, labelled, and considered through policy and intervention, alongside the materialities and mobilities that shape the lived experiences of these students. Using questionnaire findings, narrative intervie…
Why educational research should not just solve problems, but should cause them as well
This article also appears in: BERA Journals Virtual Issue: Rethinking the futures of education in the Nordic countries - Education in an Era of Risk - the Role of Educational Research for the Future
Housing Associations as institutional space
Housing Associations (HAs) operate at the community level between the state, market and individual and, in the current political context of austerity, state roll‐back and welfare reform, have been increasingly tasked with focusing on the “welfare” of their tenants. This has included “encouraging” a trajectory of training for work for those tenants who are unemployed; a trajectory that is aimed at producing a certain type of “active” and appropria…
The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography
This chapter is the front matter to Section Four: Geography Matters: Spatiality and Auto/Biography; edited by John Barker and Emma Wainwright.
Why educational research should remain mindful of its position
Why educational research should remain mindful of its position: Questions of boundaries, identity and scale
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