Professor Miriam David

  • Qualifications and position:
    • BA (Hons) Sociology, PhD, Honorary Doctor of Education
    • Professor of Education
    • Co-editor Twenty-first century society and Executive Editor British journal of sociology of education
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  • Summary:
    • Was, until recently, Associate Director (Higher Education) of the ESRC's Teaching & Learning Research Programme (2004-2009) based at IOE. A Professor for over 20 years - London South Bank (1988-97); University of the Arts (1997-9) and Keele University (1999 – 2005) where she remains a visiting professor. She has a world class reputation for her research on gender, families, social diversity and inequalities in education, including lifelong learning and higher education. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of education by the University of Bedfordshire (2009). She was chair of the Council of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) from 2005-2009, a member of the UK Economic & Social Research Council's Research Grants Board (2006-9) and is on the Governing Council of Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE).
  • Teaching:
    • Contribution to MMALLL 05 on Lifelong Learning: Theories and Perspectives on HE; module on presenting at conferences for Doctoral School
  • Research Projects:
    • TLRP's Higher Education projects, especially the 7 on Widening Participation in Higher Education (See www.tlrp.org for further information)
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Gender and education; widening participation in HE; diversity and equity; parents, families and schools or home-school relations
  • Professional Activities:
    • Served on the boards of, inter alia, Academy of Social Sciences, British Sociological Association, Feminist & Women's Studies Association; Gender & Education Association, Social Policy Association, Society for research in HE, Through the Glass Ceiling: senior women in Education Management; and UK Council for Graduate Education. Co-editor (with Philip Davies) of 21st Century Society journal of the Academy of Social Sciences and an executive editor of British Journal of Sociology of Education and previously co-editor Journal of Social Policy (1992-1999). Served on the board of Sociology. Advisory groups for ESRC's TLRP projects on Higher Education, including 7 projects on Widening Participation in HE. Other advisory boards include European Science Foundation (ESF) EUROCORES Programme review panel on Higher Education and Social Change EuroHESC. Higher Education Academy (HEA) Research and Teaching Forum; Executive Steering Group of the European Research Network about Parents and Education (ERNAPE); Member of the Advisory Committee of Wolverhampton University's Educational research on minority ethnic group students in HE funded by ERSC and directed by Dr T. Basit and the Advisory Committee for ESRC project on Pedagogical Quality, directed by Dr Monica Maclean, School of Education, Nottingham University
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • • Using academic research to improve the learning experience of diverse student groups invited introductory keynote address to the Higher Education Academy (HEA) Promoting Equity in Higher Education national conference, Eastwood Hall, Nottingham, January 27th, 2010
    • • Women and research: a feminist perspective University Forum on Women and Research Culture, day conference as part of Education, Equity and Social Identities Strategic Research Program invited keynote introduction and respondent held at University of Melbourne, Australia 8th February 2010
      • Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education as part of the Education Public lecture series at The University of Queensland Brisbane Australia 4 February 2010
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Australia, Canada, France, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, USA
  • Media Appearances:
    • Featured in The Australian October 21st 2009
  • Languages Spoken:
    • French (intermediate), Hebrew (basic) Italian (basic)
  • Languages Written:
    • French (basic)
  • SIG Membership:
    • Gender, Sexuality and Education
      Psychosocial studies in Education, Sociology of Education
  • Research Students:
    • Clare Gartland on Student Ambassadors as part of widening participation to HE
Professor Miriam David

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Publications

  • David M (Editor in this series 'Improving Learning Gateway' -Teaching & Learning Research Programme) (2009) Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education. London: Routledge.
  • David, M with Morley, L (2009) 'Celebrations and Challenges: Gender in Higher Education ', Higher Education Policy 22 (1) , 1-2.
  • David, Miriam (2009) 'Social Diversity and Democracy in Higher Education in 21st Century ', Higher Education Policy vol 22 (1), 61-79 .
  • David, M (Guest editor) (2008) 'Introduction: Challenges of diversity for widening participation in UK higher education', Research Papers in Education 23,(2), 111-112.
  • David, M with Weiler, Kathleen (Guest editors) (2008) 'Second Wave Feminism: The personal and political: second wave feminism and educational research: introduction', Discourse, Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 29 (4) , 433-435.
  • David, M with Benyon, J (2008) 'Developing Dialogue', Academy of Social Sciences and ESRC Report, published by the Academy of Social Sciences and as a supplementary issue of 21st Century Society 3, 120.
  • David, M, with Clegg, S (2008) 'Power, Pedagogy & Personalisation in global higher education: the occlusion of second wave feminism? ', Discourse, The Cultural Politics of Education 29 (4), 483-498 .
  • David, M with Alldred, P (2007) Get Real About Sex: the politics and practice of sex education . London: McGraw Hill/Open University Press.
  • David, M with Reid, I (2007) 'Social Inequality and Education', Education and Society: 25 Years of the British Journal of Sociology of Education 85-207.
  • David, M with Ball, S & Reay, D (2005) Degrees of Choice: Social Class, Race and Gender in Higher Education. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books.
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