Position/Status

Assistant Professor in Education Policy and Practice

E-mail Address

cec74@cam.ac.uk

Phone

N/A

Qualifications

• PhD (Education) ESRC Funded, Cardiff University
• MSc Social Science Research Methods (Education), Cardiff University
• PGCE (Further and Higher Education), Cardiff University
• BA (Hons) Accountancy, University of Wales, Cardiff

Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
• Associate Editor - Race, Ethnicity and Education
• Editorial board member - British Journal of Sociology of Education
• Affiliate Member - Education Equity Initiative, University of Birmingham

Profile

Dr Claire E. Crawford joined the faculty as Assistant Professor in Education Policy and Practice. Prior to joining the Faculty, Claire was an Associate Professor of Education, at the School of Education, University of Birmingham. Claire also has experience of teaching in schools and colleges of Further Education with a particular focus on the educational experience of disadvantaged and minoritised children and young people (aged 14-19).

Claire’s research interests focus on the critical examination of inequity in education. Her particular focus is on building critical quantitative social science methodologies to shape examinations of government education policies, local practices, and the structuring and (mis)representations of inequity in education at the intersection of race, class, and gender. Claire’s more recent work focuses on widening participation for care-experienced children and young people and youth transitions to higher education.

Claire is an Associate Editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Race Ethnicity and Education and is an Editorial Advisory Board member of the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Academic Area/Links

• Member of Knowledge, Power and Politics (KPP)

Research Topics

• Critical quantitative methodologies (including ‘QuantCrit’)
• Secondary data analysis (educational administrative data)
• Educational Inequity (specifically at the intersection of race, class and gender)
• Widening participation and transitions to higher education
• Critical examination of educational policy and practice
• Sociology of education

Current Research Project(s)

• Evaluation of ICET's (Inner Circle Education Trust) Head Start into HE programme with NNECL (National Network for the Education of Care Leavers) in collaboration with the University of Birmingham

Teaching

Education Triops:

• Chair of Examiners (Part 1)
• Modernity, Globalisation and Education
• Designing Education Research

Postgraduate Taught:

• Research Methods Strand (RMS) Route Coordinator (MPhil)
• MPhil/MEd Education Leadership and Improvement
• MPhil Knowledge, Power and Politics
• Research Methods (MEd/MPhil)
• Supervision (MEd/MPhil)

Supervision (PhD/EdD)

I am currently accepting PhD and EdD applications in the areas of critical quantitative methodologies (educational administrative data); inequity in education in the context of attainment, opportunity, and experience (at the intersections of race, class and/or gender); education policy; and studies focusing on 'widening participation' (with particular focus on transitions to higher education inc. foundation years).

Principal and Recent Publications

Gillborn, D., Bhopal, K., Crawford, C.E., Demack, S., Gholami, R., Kitching, K., Kiwan, D., & Warmington, P. (2021) Evidence for the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. Birmingham: University of Birmingham CRRE. DOI: 10.25500/epapers.bham.00003389

Crawford C.E. (2019) The One-in-Ten: Quantitative Critical Race Theory and the Education of the ‘New Oppressed’ in England, Journal of Education Policy, 34(3): 423-444 https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2018.1531314

Crawford C.E. (2019) Athleticising young black lives: Confusing education with commerce in high school sports, in ‘Race’, ‘Racism’ and ‘Race logic’ in youth sport, physical activity and health: Global perspectives, London: Routledge

Crawford, C.E., Demack, S., Gillborn, D. & Warmington, P. (2018) Quants & Crits: using numbers for social justice (or, how not to be lied to with statistics), in Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies: Lessons From the Field, New York: Routledge

Crawford, C.E. (2017) Promoting 'fundamental British values' in schools: a critical race perspective. Curriculum Perspectives, 37(2): 197-204 https://doi.org/10.1007/s41297-017-0029-3

Crawford, C.E. (2017) Researching race and racism in education during a 'Whitelash', Research Intelligence, Spring(132): 26-27