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Biography
I am a Professor in Education and Employment at the University of Huddersfield and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Ethnography and Education. I have worked at The University of Huddersfield since 2008 and acted as REF Coordinator for the School of Education and Professional Development during that time. My teaching and research interests focus mainly on issues of social justice and education policy.
Currently I am working as Principal Investigator, alongside collegues Ron Thompson, Katherine Davey and Jo Bishop on a four year ethnographic study of NEET prevention services in England. This Leverhulme Trust funded research builds on over fifteen years worth of knowledge derived from externally funded research expertise working to further understand how young people who fall outside of mainstream education and employment spaces experience their career journeys and life trajectories.
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 exploring work-related learning for young people on E2E programs, a Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded 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. 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. I have also worked on an internally funded project aimed at developing understandings regarding student retention. During he pandemic I worked as PI on a University Research Funded project that explored parents experiences of homeschooling in the advent of Covid-19. This action research involved the use of online photo-elliciation interviews and aimed to support schools and families during the health crisis. More recently I have worked alongside Ron Thompson as PI with Wavehill Social Research Council via Blaenau Gwent Borough Council, acting as procuremnt lead on behalf of the Welsh European Fund Office (WEFO) to lead work informing current NEET intervention evaluations that are acting to inform Welsh education and employment policy.
Since 2007 I have been a leading member of the Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference organising team. Alongside my Editor role for the Ethnography and Education Journal, I have acted as Deputy Editor for the Teaching in Lifelong Learning Journal and 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, the Associative Research Program – CONICYT (The Ministry of Education, Chile) and more recently the National Agency for Research and Development of Chile (ANID).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research Expertise and Interests
- Education policy
- Employment 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
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Mapping the provision of NEET early interventions in England
Russell, L., Thompson, R., Davey, K. & Bishop, J.
22/09/21 → 22/03/26
Project: Research
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Book Review: Doing Fieldwork at Home: The Ethnography of Education in Familiar Contexts. Sarroub, Loukia K. and Nicholas, Claire, London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, 189 pp.
Russell, L., 1 Mar 2023, In: Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 54, 1, p. 98-100 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review
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Gender and Alternative Education
Russell, L., 12 Jan 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) Oxford Bibliographies in Education. Faircloth, S. (ed.). Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review
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Mental health and its implications for young people vulnerable to becoming NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training)
Russell, L., Thompson, R., Pike, J. & Bishop, J., 24 Jan 2023, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Youth Employment Report: The Impact of Mental Ill Health on Young People Accessing the Labour Market and Quality Work, October 2022 - January 2023. Youth Employment UK, p. 48-55 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Ethics, Ethnography and Education
Russell, L. (ed.), Barley, R. (ed.) & Tummons, J. (ed.), 23 Jun 2022, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. 167 p. (Studies in Educational Ethnography; vol. 19)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Is This Ethical? Using This Question as a Starting Point
Russell, L., 23 Jun 2022, Ethics, Ethnography and Education. Russell, L., Barley, R. & Tummons, J. (eds.). Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Vol. 19. p. 1-10 10 p. (Studies in Educational Ethnography; vol. 19).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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External PhD Examiner
Lisa Russell (Examiner)
31 May 2023Activity: Examination types › PhD Examination
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Next steps? Understanding EHE young people’s experiences of education and work transitions
Lisa Russell (Speaker) & Katherine Davey (Speaker)
25 Apr 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. (Publisher)
Lisa Russell (Reviewer)
15 Mar 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication Peer-review
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Youth (Journal)
Lisa Russell (Reviewer)
2 Feb 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication Peer-review
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External PhD Examiner
Lisa Russell (Examiner)
19 Dec 2022Activity: Examination types › PhD Examination
Press/Media
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The role of politics in education and educational ethnography
19/12/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Volunteer teaching - crucial work experience or exploitation?
Ronald Thompson & Lisa Russell
4/08/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research