Network staff
Dr Serena Bufton
Principal lecturer in sociology, teaching fellow, BSc Hons, PGCE, MA, PhD
Phone 0114 225 2417
E-mail s.a.bufton@shu.ac.uk
Serena is a principal lecturer in sociology and a Faculty teaching fellow. Following the completion of her PhD (2002) on the experiences of mature, non-traditional students in higher education, she focused her research interests on ways of engaging students with undergraduate learning.
Working as an associate of the University's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (Promoting Learner Autonomy) during 2005/6, Serena made a successful application for membership of the US-based National Centre for Electronic Portfolio Research. She is at present leading a team of researchers in a longitudinal project researching the factors that influence how learners engage with ePortfolios in their personal, academic and professional development.
Recent publications
Clegg, S. and Bufton, S. (forthcoming) Student Support Through Personal Development Planning: Time and Retrospective Meaning Making, Research Papers in Education.
Bufton, S. (2006) 'Learning to Play the Game: Mature, working-class students' experiences of higher education', in Jary, D.and Jones, R. Perspectives and Practice in Widening Participations in the Social Sciences, University of Birmingham: C-SAP.
Bufton, S. (2004) 'Social Class' in Taylor, G. and Spencer, S. (eds) Social Identity: Multidisciplinary Approaches, London: Routledge.
Bufton, S. (2003) 'The Lifeworld of the University Student: Habitus and social class', Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 34 (2): 207-234.
Rosie, A., Bufton, S. and Hirst, J. (2001) 'Sociology as a Moral Discourse: a case study of social theory teaching', British Journal of Sociology of Education 22 (2): 217-226.
Conference presentations
Bufton, S. and Clegg, S. (2006) 'Student Support Through Personal Development Planning', Improving Student Learning Symposium, 'Improving Student Learning Through Teaching', 4 September 2006.
Bufton, S. Lawrence, H, Mahmood, S. and Siddiq, S. (2006)'Working with Students to Develop ePortfolio as an Integrated Learning Environment', The Higher Education Academy Annual Conference, 3-5 July 2006.
MacDonald,R., Bufton, S., and Rosie, A. (2006) 'Creating Institutional Conditions for Transformational Change', International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Washington DC, US, November 2006.
Bufton, S. (2001) ''You feel like a bit of an impostor': Mature Working-Class Students' Experiences of Higher Education', British Sociological Association Conference, 'A Sociological Odyssey', 9-12 April 2001.
