Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and and senior lecturer School of Education and Sociology and leader for the Childhood and Youth Studies with Social Pedagogy undergraduate pathway degree.
I am also module leader on the MA Education degree and PhD supervisor. I am departmental ethics representative and member of the faculty ethics committe. My research and innovation projects include developing Beyond the School Gates, a youth work informed charity that trains former excluded students to draw on their own lived experiences in order to mentor current excluded students and their parents to re-engage their education.
Research Interests
- Youth work and Alternative Education
- Youth voice and advocacy
- Social Justice
- Social networking and social media
- Democratic citizenship
- Qualititative research including PAR methods
- Social Pedagogy
Education/Academic qualification
Ph.D., The social construction of pupil's cultural worlds: Negotiating viable selves from the margins, University of Sussex
1 Sept 2006 → 26 Feb 2013
Award Date: 26 Feb 2013
MA, MA. Education, University of Sussex
27 Sept 2004 → 14 Jul 2006
Award Date: 14 Jul 2006
BA (Hons), Youth and Community work and Applied Theology, Oxford Brookes University
27 Sept 1999 → 17 Jul 2002
Award Date: 17 Jul 2002
External positions
Equality and Diversity Advisory Group member, Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations
20 Sept 2020 → …
Founder and CEO , Beyond the School Gates
14 Apr 2020 → …
External Examiner, Kingston University
1 Sept 2018 → …
BERA Alternative Education Special Interest Group, British Educational Research Association
5 Sept 2017 → 30 Aug 2019
OCR Sociology Consultative Forum, Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations
22 Apr 2016 → …
Director, Electric Storm Youth Ltd
1 Sept 2014 → 2 Apr 2017
External Examiner, Liverpool John Moores University
1 Sept 2014 → 30 Sept 2018
Keywords
- LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
- Education
- Relational pedagogy
- Youth
- Voice
- Justice
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Resisting the professional turn: revisiting youth work as a covenantal process
Edwards, S. & Evea, R., 26 Mar 2025, (Accepted for publication) In: International Journal of Social Pedagogy .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Capturing young people’s voices and lived experiences at the margins
Edwards, S., 16 Oct 2023, (Accepted for publication) School of Education, Language and Linguistics : An Introduction to Our Research. Ringrow, H. & Watkins, P. (eds.). University of PortsmouthResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Freire for 21st Century, austerity driven schools: creating positive educational relations with and among students at the margins
Edwards, S., 28 Jun 2023, In: International Journal of Social Pedagogy . 12, 1, 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Voices from beyond the school gates: students’ and their parents’ lived experience of school exclusion
Edwards, S., Bakkali, Y., Kirk, A., Cobb, C., Salanson, B., Walls, N. & Kimmins, V., 17 Nov 2021, In: The Buckingham Journal of Education. 2, 2, p. 77-98 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Close-to-practice research: the need for student voice and the strange case of Academy x
Edwards, S. & Brown, C., 13 Nov 2020, In: London Review of Education. 18, 3, p. 480–494 15 p., 18.3.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile32 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Data availability statement for 'Does absence makes the heart grow fonder? Students' perspectives of curriculum, absenteeism and their pursuit of the good life'.
Edwards, S. (Creator) & Parmar, E. (Creator), University of Portsmouth, 24 Jun 2020
Dataset
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Inclusive Leadership
Corbett, S. (PI), Hoskin, M. (Research Leader), Bezuidenhout, A. (CoI), Edwards, S. (CoI), Mather, D. (CoI) & Ringrow, H. (CoI)
16/09/24 → 30/03/25
Project: Innovation
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Scoping the training and capacity building needs of Sussex Clubs for Young People: Towards the implementation of level 6 qualifications
Edwards, S. (PI)
15/05/23 → 31/07/23
Project: Innovation
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Analysing the behaviour and improving the driving experience of intelligent powered mobility platform users
Sanders, D. (PI), Haddad, M. (CoI), Helps, S. (CoI), Edwards, S. (CoI), Tewkesbury, G. (CoI), Yates, S. (CoI) & Langner, M. (CoI)
1/03/22 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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UoP Grade Gap Project
Asgari, M. (Team Member), Edwards, S. (PI) & Dharmaraj-Savicks, A. (Team Member)
15/07/20 → 31/08/21
Project: Other
Activities
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Presention to 'Exploring Childhood and Youth' Symposium
Edwards, S. (Speaker) & Evea, R. (Speaker)
20 May 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Presentation at SRHE seminar series AI and Inclusive Education
Edwards, S. (Speaker)
14 May 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Ethics and AI in Teaching & Research - FHSS ethics Committee
Edwards, S. (Organiser)
23 Jan 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Society for Research into Higher Education: Inclusive AI
Edwards, S. (Chair)
15 Jan 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Imagination & Education
Edwards, S. (Participant)
16 Dec 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Prizes
Press/Media
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What can be done to combat our spiralling rate of youth crime?
9/06/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research cited
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Why it might be time to exterminate exclusions Features
12/12/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment
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Why there is no such thing as an unteachable child
12/06/19 → 12/07/19
2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Expert comment