Curriculum Vitae

Full curriculum vitae [in PDF format]

Education

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of York (award pending).

PhD in Sociology. Title: Social class and access to postgraduate education in the UK: a sociological analysis, University of Manchester, 2009. Download it here

MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics (with distinction), University of Manchester, 2005 .

MA in Education (by research). Title: "Social class and progression to postgraduate study in England", University of York, 2002.

BA (Hons) in Sociology (first class), University of Liverpool, 1995

Main publications

Wakeling, P. and Jefferies, K. (forthcoming) The effect of tuition fees on student mobility: the UK and Ireland as a natural experiment. British Educational Research Journal.

Wakeling, P. (2010) Inequalities in postgraduate education: a comparative review. In G. Goastellec (ed) Understanding Inequalities In, Through and By Higher Education, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, pp. 61 - 74.

Wakeling, P. and Kyriacou, C. (2010) Widening Participation from Undergraduate to Postgraduate Research Degrees: a Research Synthesis. Swindon: ESRC and NCCPE. [Download]

Wakeling, P. (2010) Is there such thing as a working-class academic? In Y. Taylor, ed. Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges, Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 35 - 52.

Wakeling, P. (2010) Education and the state 1850 to the present. In J. Arthurs and I. Davies, eds. The Routledge Education Studies Textbook. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 30 - 40.

Wakeling, P. (2009). Are ethnic minorities underrepresented in UK postgraduate study? Higher Education Quarterly, 63(1): 86-111.

Wakeling, P. (2008) Social inequality, class and the classics. Sociology 42 (4), 760-766.

Wakeling, P. (2007) White faces, black faces: is British sociology a white discipline? Sociology 41 (5): 945-960.

Wakeling, P. (2005) La noblesse d'état anglaise? Social class and progression to postgraduate study. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 26 (4): 505-522.

Grants

2011 - 2012 British Academy Small Grant 'Access to doctoral study: a multi-institutional investigation of participation and non-participation at PhD level' (with Adél Pásztor, Northumbria University) (ref. SG101994)

2009 - 2010 NCCPE-ESRC Research Synthesis (£14,985) 'Widening Participation from Undergraduate to Postgraduate Research Degrees' (with Chris Kyriacou)

2009 - 2010 ESRC International Training and Networking Opportunities award (£39,997 F.E.C.) for ‘Comparative educational pathways – an international spring school’ (joint with Gillian Hampden- Thompson and Vanita Sundaram) (ref. RES-810-210-0032)

2005 - 2006 C-SAP Postgraduate project funding of £1,960 for project entitled Postgraduate study in sociology, anthropology and politics: what is the effect of ethnicity? (joint with Jerry Johnson) (award no. PG05-13)

2004 – 2008 ESRC 1+3 studentship in Statistics, Computing and Methodology (award no. PTA -030-2003-01311)