Lisa Russell

I am a Senior Lecturer in Education and Community Studies at the University of Huddersfield. I have worked at Huddersfield University since 2008. My teaching and research interests focus mainly on issues of social justice and education policy. At Aston University in Birmingham, I gained my ESRC funded PhD ‘Pupil Resistance to Their Schooling Experience’ before engaging in my post as a Research Fellow at The University of Nottingham within the School of Education. I have been Principal Investigator for a Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded project that investigated young people’s experiences of working in the private sector.  I have also managed a longitudinal study concerning the experiences of NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) young people funded by The Leverhulme Trust. I have worked as a Senior Research Fellow in a Huddersfield University funded project that explored work-related learning for young people on E2E programs, a Joseph Rowntree Foundation project that mapped alternative education provision across two Midland Local Authority's and an ESRC project aimed at exploring themes of social and educational inclusion through the creative arts with primary age school children. More recently I have managed The Education and Training Consortium funded projects that aimed to explore the experiences of BME trainee teachers and the experiences of volunteer trainees in unpaid teaching employment.  Currently I am developing understandings regarding student retention and the reasons why undergraduate students withdraw from university.

Since 2007 I have been a leading member of the Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference organising team. I am a member of the Editorial board of the Ethnography and Education Journal and Deputy Editor for the Teaching in Lifelong Learning Journal. I have also acted as Guest Editor for the international peer reviewed Special Issue of Improving Schools on pupil voice. I have refereed a range of research funding applications for the ESRC and the Associative Research Program – CONICYT (The Ministry of Education, Chile).

• Education policy
• Poverty
• Marginalised people
• Issues of social justice
• Key transition points
• Ethnography
• Participatory visual research methods
• Social inclusion through the arts
• Concepts of childhood and outdoor play 
• Issues related to improving undergraduate student retention