Education Studies News and Events

 This week Greg and Leslie are spending three days at Sarum College, adjacent to Salisbury Cathedral, working with curates and their training incumbents in order to engage the primary user communities with the outcomes of the research and with the implications for practice.

Greg completed his doctorate in CES on the educational and training relationship between curates and their training incumbents - the way in which Anglican clergy undertake years 4 thru 7 of their initial professional education. The dissertation has now been reshaped for a book.

The esteemed journal Gender and Education has just released the call for papers for a new guest edited special issue, edited by CES Assistant Professor Emily Henderson, and Dr James Burford from Thammasat University in Thailand. The special issue is entitled "Thoughtful gatherings: gendering conferences as spaces of learning, knowledge production and community", and the call for papers can be accessed here. Emily and James are also co-editors of the academic blog 'Conference Inference: Blogging the World of Conferences' [view].

Applications are now invited for a fully-funded doctoral studentship to commence in October 2018. The studentship is embedded in a research project on gender and educational success in Haryana, India, which is funded by the Fair Chance Foundation. It is co-funded by Fair Chance Foundation and the University of Warwick’s Collaborative Postgraduate Research Scholarships (WCPRS) scheme. The studentship reflects the university’s commitment to producing the next generation of international leaders in social science research. Fair Chance Foundation, which was founded by a Warwick alumnus, is committed to improving the future livelihoods of disadvantaged children and young adults through education. The principal goals of Fair Chance Foundation are to: research attitudes towards education as a means to end poverty and gender bias; develop interventions which create desire for education as a means to end poverty and gender bias; formally research and publish interventions and outcomes; develop guides and promote the research to help policy makers make informed choices about which interventions are likely to have most impact; provide direct support to children and young adults.

Deadline 1st december 2017, APPLY NOW

WRERU Presentations at the Religious Research Association Conference, Washington DC, Sunday15th October 2017

Tania ap Sion, David W Lankshear and Leslie J Francis presented three stands of their WRERU research to an audience concerned with applying research findings for the ongoing professional education of church leaders

• Tania is drawing out the educational implications of research into the prayer spaces developed in churches
• David is drawing out the educational implications of research into the faith trajectory of churchgoers in their seventies and eighties
• Leslie is drawing out the educational implications of research into work-related psychological wellbeing for church leaders themselves.

The audience included national officers from mainline American denominations concerned with the applying research to church practice. They are members of the Religious Research Association.
You can read Professor Francis' Abstracts here:

'I hate them with perfect hatred'

'Assessing clergy work-related psychological health'