Widening Participation Event: Professor Penny Jane Burke
On Friday 9th September, we are delighted to welcome Professor Penny Jane Burke to give a seminar on her research on Capability, Belonging and Equity in Higher Education: Developing Inclusive Approaches.
Penny Jane Burke is Global Innovation Chair of Equity and Director of the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Penny is passionately dedicated to developing methodological, theoretical and pedagogical frameworks that support critical understanding and practise of equity and social justice in higher education.
Her research expertise includes gendered formations, higher education access and participation, pedagogical experiences and practices, and student and professional identities. She has published extensively in the field of equity in higher education.
After returning to study via an Access to Higher Education course, followed by a BA Honours and MA, Penny was awarded a full-time Economic and Social Research Council doctoral studentship from 1998-2001, which resulted in the publication of her book Accessing Education Effectively Widening Participation (2002).
Her most recent sole-authored book, The Right to Higher Education: Beyond Widening Participation was published by Routledge in 2012. Her co-authored book Reconceptualising Lifelong Learning: Feminist Interventions (with Sue Jackson) was nominated for the 2008 Cyril O. Houle World Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education.
Penny was recipient of the Higher Education Academy’s prestigious National Teaching Fellowship award in 2008, is Editor of the international journal Teaching in Higher Education and she is the Access and Widening Participation Network Co-Convenor for the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE).
Penny has held the posts of Professor of Education at the University of Roehampton, the University of Sussex and Reader of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
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Friday 9 September 2016
10.30am - 12.00pm New Law Annexe SR442
FREE - morning tea will be provided