Dr Lucy Wenham

Summary

Biography

I am a Sociologist of Education, interested in problems of educational disadvantage, marginalisation and exclusion and crucially also in exploring solutions involving discourse, agency and critical pedagogies. As a Secondary School teacher in schools in challenging circumstances for over 15 years, much of my research is ethnographic and I prefer a grounded theory approach to analysis in order to allow the voices of the marginalised to shine through. 

Teaching

I currently teach at Undergrauate and Masters level as well as supervising students on UG, Masters, EdD and PhD programmes. 

 At UG I teach Learning Lives, Educational Statistics, Pedagogies for Social Justice. 

At Masters I currently teach an open unit called 'Big ideas in Education'.

I also teach a short-course 'Changing Education'. 

Keywords

• marginalisation
• exclusion
• educational inequalities
• critical pedagogies
• pedagogical content knowledge

Memberships

Organisations

School of Education

BERA - British Educational Research Association

British Sociological Association

Links

• Research Project

Recent publications

• Gemmell, L, Wenham, LJ & Hauert, S, 2019, ‘Leaving No One Behind: Educating Those Most Impacted by Artificial Intelligence’.
• Wenham, LJ, 2019, ‘‘It’s horrible. And the class is too silent’: A silent classroom environment can lead to a paralysing fear of being put on the spot, called-out, shown up, shamed or humiliated.’. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, vol 17., pp. 162-187
• Wenham, LJ, 2019, ‘Rethinking rigour: Analytic dilemmas of a scientist morphing into a social scientist’. in: Bryan Clift, Julie Gore, Sheree Bekker, Ioannis Costas Batlle, Katharina Chudzikowski, Jennifer Hatchard (eds) Myths, Methods, and Messiness: Insights for Qualitative Research Analysis. The University of Bath, Bath, pp. 61-77

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Courses

Dr Wenham currently teaches 5 courses: