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Miriam David

Institute of Education, University of London

Miriam E. David, AcSS, FRSA is Professor of Sociology of Education and Associate Director (Higher Education) of the ESRC’s Teaching & Learning Research Programme at the Institute of Education University of London. She has a world class reputation for her research on social diversity, gender and inequalities in education, including lifelong learning and higher education. She is chair of the Council of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), a member of the ESRC’s Research Grants Board and the Governing Council of Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE). She is co-editor (with Peter Glasner) of 21st Century Society journal of the Academy of Social Sciences and an executive editor of British Journal of Sociology of Education. Her most recent publications include (with Pam Alldred) Get Real About Sex: the politics and practice of sex education (2007, London: McGraw Hill/Open University Press) (with Diane Reay and Stephen Ball) Degrees of Choice: Social Class, Race and Gender in Higher Education (2005, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books) and Social Inequalities, Gender & Lifelong Learning: A feminist, sociological review of work, family and education International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 2008 vol 28 issues 7 & 8 pp 260-272 special issue on Processes of Social Inequality edited by Paul Lambert; 2008 Guest editor, special issue of Research Papers in Education vol 23, no 2 June, Introduction: Challenges of diversity for widening participation in UK higher education (pp 111-112) with 10 papers from the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) on widening participation to, and involvement in, higher education and lifelong learning.

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