Dr Peter Stevens
Research Officer
Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning
Institute of Education
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
tel: +44 (0)20 7612 6764
fax: +44 (0)20 7612 6680
email: p.stevens@ioe.ac.uk
Responsibilities
- Responsible for conducting a 3-year mixed-methods research project funded by the DCSF on the development of children’s social capital (or their social support networks and social bonding and bridging capital) and its impact on educational and wider outcomes in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
- Developing funding proposals involving mixed-methods research.
- Disseminating research findings by presenting at conferences and writing research reports, journal articles and book chapters.
- Promoting collaboration between the WBL and other UK and non-UK based research institutes.
- Lecturing in workshops on ethnographic research and observational research for various MA programmes.
Research interests
- Sociology of education
- Race/ethnic relations
- Social inequality
- Ethnographic and mixed-methods research
Research
WBL research: http://www.learningbenefits.net/Publications/ResRepIntros/ResRep24intro.htm
PhD in Sociology: "An Ethnography of Teacher Racism and Discrimination in Flemish and English Classrooms with Turkish Secondary School Pupils" (Warwick University)
Co- Supervisor of "Flemish Pupils' Survey".
A Large scale survey from 13,000 pupils and their teachers in 85 Flemish secondary schools.
This study focuses on the impact of pupil and school structural and cultural characteristics on the experienced discrimination and educational achievement of pupils.
This study is based at the University of Ghent (Belgium), department of sociology.
Selected (most recent) publications
Stevens, Peter A. J. 2008. "Pupils' Perspectives on Racism and Differential
Treatment by Teachers: on Stragglers, the Ill and Being Deviant." British
Educational Research Journal -: forthcoming.
Stevens, Peter A. J. 2008. "Exploring Pupils' Perceptions of Teacher Racism in their Context: A Case Study of Turkish and Belgian Vocational Education Pupils in a Belgian School." British Journal of Sociology of Education 29: forthcoming.
Stevens, Peter, Ruth Lupton, Tamjid Mujtaba, and Leon Feinstein. 2007. "The Development and Impact of Young People's Social Capital in Secondary Schools." in Wider Benefits of Learning Research Report 24. London: Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning.
Stevens, Peter A. J. 2007. "Exploring the Importance of Teachers' Institutional Structure on the Development of Teachers' Standards of Assessment in Belgium." Sociology of Education 80: 314-329.
Stevens, Peter A. J. 2007. "Researching Race/Ethnicity and Educational Inequality in English Secondary Schools: A Critical Review of the Research Literature Between 1980 and 2005." Review of Educational Research 77: 147-185.
