Recent Research Grants

2011 – 2014: Partner with 8 partners and 3 associated members in the EU funded, Alfa III Program, ‘Programa Marco Interuniversitario Para Una Política De Equidad Y Cohesión Social En La Educación Superior’, 3,000,000 Euros.

2010: Advisory Group Member for ‘Early exit attrition among post-vocational graduates: Mismatch of requirements and competencies?’ research project by the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

2010 – 2011: ‘Research Challenges’, University of Brighton, £10.000.

2006 – 2009: AHRC Funded ‘Cultural Geographies of Counter-Diasporic Migration: The Second Generation Returns ‘Home’ with the University of Sussex (Professor Russell King) - £440,000.

2006: EU European Network of Experts in the Social Sciences of Education and Training (NESSE) set up by the Institut National De Recherche Pedagogique, Lyon.

2004 - 2008: Professional Knowledge: 8 member state study funded by the European Commission - £1,000,400.

2003 - 2008: ESRC Teaching & Learning Research Programme, ‘Learning Lives: Learning, Identity and Agency in the Life Course’ - £960.000.00 (with G. Biesta & F. Macleod, University of Exeter; J. Field, University of Stirling; P. Hodkinson, University of Leeds)

1998 - 2003: The Spencer Foundation, USA ‘Change Over Time?' ‘A Study of Culture, Structure, Time and Change in Secondary Schooling’ $520,000.00 (with A. Hargreaves)

1995 - 1998: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, ‘Cultural Negotiation of Minority Students and Teachers’ $130,000.00 (with D. Thiessen)

1994 - 1996: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, ‘Comparative Case Study of Co-operative Education in High School, College and University’ $54,000.00 (with P. Medway)

1993 - 1996: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, ‘Institutionalizing Vocationalism: Curriculum Change at London’s H.B. Beal Technical and Commercial High School, 1940-1980’ $120,000.00

1993 - 1996: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, ‘The Changing World of Teaching’ $75,000.00 (with A. Hargreaves) and $10,000.00 OSTF

1992 - 1995: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, ‘Racial/Ethnocultural Minority Teachers’ Lives’ $101,000.00

1992 - 1993: Employment and Immigration Council, Schools of the Future, Innovations and Programme Grant - $14,075.00 (with A. Hargreaves)

1992: Professional Action and Cultures of Teaching, Ontario Public School Teachers Federation - $10,000.00 (with A. Hargreaves)