Network staff
Dr Carol Taylor
BA (Hons), MA, MA, MSc, DPhil
Phone 0114 225 6260
E-mail c.a.taylor@shu.ac.uk
Carol is a senior lecturer in education and a course leader for BA(Hons) Education Studies and BA(Hons) Education Studies and Sociology. Carol teaches on the BA(Hons) Education Studies degrees, and supervises MA and doctoral students.
Carol is a post-16 and higher education research specialist. Her current research interests include
- student engagement, student voice and the ethics of students’ participation in research
- creative, collaborative and narrative research methodologies and practices
- space, spatiality, power and gender in sixth form contexts and higher education
- visuality, visual research methods and digital video
- gendered identities, feminism and post-feminism
- deleuzian analytics and educational practices
Research collaborations
Carol collaborates in research on, and theorisations of, student voice, students-as-researchers and the student experience. She is a member of the RAISE network.
Carol writes a regular feature on academic identities, gender and feminism for the Gender and Education Association newsletter.
Selected recent publications
C. A. Taylor (2012) ‘Epistemological Issues in Educational Research’, in Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide, Sage. Edited by James Ainsworth. (forthcoming)
C. A. Taylor (2012) ‘Mobile Sections and Flowing Matter: Exploring a Deleuzian approach to Visual Sociology’, in Deleuze and Social Science Methodologies: Rethinking Empirical Research, Edinburgh University Press. Edited by Jessica Ringrose and Rebecca Coleman. (forthcoming)
C. A. Taylor (2011) ‘Barriers and Enablers to Feminist Research’, seminar report by Heidi Bjorgan et al. for the Psychology of Women Section, Leeds Metropolitan University, 3 November, 2011
C. A. Taylor (2011) ‘More than Meets the Eye: the Use of Videonarratives to facilitate Doctoral Students’ Reflexivity on their Doctoral Journeys, Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 441 – 458
C. A. Taylor (2011) ‘Hope in Failure’: A Level Students, Discursive Agency, Post-feminism and Feminism, Gender and Education. Published on iFirst 15 June 2011
C. A. Taylor and M. Dunne (2011) ‘Virtualization and New Geographies of Knowledge in Higher Education: Transforming Knowledge, Pedagogic Relations and Learner Identities’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 623 – 641
C. A. Taylor, Y. Downs, R. Baker and G. Chickwa (2011) ‘I Did It My Way’: Voice, Visuality and Identity in Doctoral Students’ Reflexive Videonarratives on their Doctoral Research Journeys, International Journal of Research and Method in Education, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 193 – 210
C. A. Taylor and C. Robinson (2009) ‘Student Voice: Theorising Power and Participation’, Pedagogy, Culture and Society, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp.161 – 175
C. A. Taylor (2008) ‘Problems and Possibilities in the Policy Interface between Further and Higher Education in England’, World Universities Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp.139 – 146
C. A. Taylor and Carol Robinson (2007) ‘Theorising Student Voice: Values and Perspectives, Improving Schools, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp.5 – 17
Current projects
2011-12 Engineering for Life Project - Feed Your Brain: Exploring Students’ Eating, Lifestyle, Culture, Nutrition and their Relationship with Engagement in Learning in the First Year at University (with Dr N Jordan-Mahy and Mr P Cogill)
Doctoral students
- Joan Healey – Exploring Occupational Therapy students’ experiences of emotional labour on placement through creative writing
- Janine Ryan – Men’s Identities in Early Years Settings
