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About
I taught English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Spain and then in Poland for a number of years. Following that, I taught in a Further and Higher Education (FHE) college in Birmingham between 1997 and 2009. In 2009 I was appointed as Lecturer in Education Studies at Cardiff Metropolitan University where I taught across a range of undergraduate modules on the B.A (Hons) programmes, and I also supervised doctoral students. In 2014 I took up my present position as Senior Lecturer in Education Studies here at Sheffield Hallam University.
My teaching specialises in the sociology of post-compulsory education, although I also teach more broadly across modules related to education policy, philosophy of education and the history of education.
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Teaching
Department of Education, Childhood and Inclusion
Social Sciences and Arts
My research interests lie in the area of young people’s educational and occupational decision-making, and of how these processes are mediated through lived experiences of ‘race’, class and gender.
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Publications
Journal articles
Morrison, A. (2020). Just deserts? Grade inflation and desert-based justice in English higher education. British Journal of Educational Studies. http://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2020.1832957
Morrison, A. (2020). The Foundations of Distributive Justice: A Morphogenetic Analysis of Gomberg and Fraser. Sociology. http://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520947305
Morrison, A. (2019). Contributive justice: Social class and graduate employment in the UK. Journal of education and work. http://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2019.1646414
Morrison, A. (2018). Social justice in a market order: graduate employment and social mobility in the UK. Critical Studies in Education, 1-16. http://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2018.1553794
Morrison, A. (2017). Bourdieu and higher education research: a bricolage approach. Higher Education Review, 49 (3), 53-75. http://www.highereducationreview.com/news/bourdieu-and-higher-education-research-a-bricolage-approach.html
Morrison, A. (2017). The responsibilised consumer: neoliberalism and English higher education policy. Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 17 (3), 197-204. http://doi.org/10.1177/1532708616672675
Morrison, A. (2017). A sociologist teaches history: some epistemological and pedagogical reflections. Educational Studies, 53 (3), 233-246. http://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2017.1297301
Morrison, A. (2016). Diversity's promise for higher education: making it work (2nd edition) by Daryl G. Smith, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, ISBN: 9781421417349 (Book review). Higher Education Review, 49 (1).
Morrison, A. (2015). Education, privatisation and social justice: case studies from Africa, South Asia and South East Asia by Ian MacPherson, Susan Robertson and Geoffrey Walford (eds.), ISBN 978-1-873927-37-3, £28 (Book review). Higher Education Review, 48 (1).
Morrison, A. (2014). Hegemony through responsibilisation : getting working-class students into higher education in the United Kingdom. Power and Education, 6 (2), 118-129. http://doi.org/10.2304/power.2014.6.2.118
Morrison, A. (2014). ‘I think that’s bad' : lay normativity and perceived barriers to employment in primary teaching in the UK. Sociology, 49 (4), 643-659. http://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514546663
Book chapters
Morrison, A. (2018). Whose employability?: Fees, labour markets and the unequal rewards of undergraduate study. In Burke, C., & Christie, F. (Eds.) Graduate careers in context: research, policy and practice. (pp. 29-40). Abingdon: Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Graduate-Careers-in-Context-Research-Policy-and-Practice/Burke-Christie/p/book/9781138301764
Morrison, A. (2015). Theorising inequality : two-dimensional participatory justice and higher education research. In Huisman, J., & Tight, M. (Eds.) Theory and method in higher education research. (pp. 257-276). Bingley: Emerald: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/S2056-375220150000001012
Books
Bowers-Brown, T., Stahl, G., Lacey, S., & Morrison, A. (2017). Higher education, social class and social mobility: the degree generation (Book review). Taylor & Francis. http://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2017.1359230
Theses / Dissertations
Holmes, S. (2017). A field analysis of a 14-19 educational partnership. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Maxwell, B., Morrison, A., & Garland, P.
Doran, C. (2016). An investigation of Youth Work in Irish Youth Services. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Garland, P., Coldwell, M., & Morrison, A.
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Other activities
BERA, BSA, Higher Education Research Group (HERG) at SHU
ESRC Peer-review Rapporteur
Peer reviewer for: Journal of Further and Higher Education; Journal of Youth Studies; Journal of Vocational Education and Training; Educational Review; Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education; Sociology.