BA; PGCE (Secondary); PhD

Profile

I moved into the HE sector after teaching for eleven years in further education (with particular emphasis on developing access/ widening participation routes). Prior to joining the University of Birmingham, I was Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Developing and Evaluating Lifelong Learning, School of Education, University of Nottingham, where I managed a series of externally-funded research and evaluation projects, principally in the areas of work-based learning, qualifications and post-compulsory education and training.

Research and Projects Interests

Currently, my main role is as senior researcher on the ESRC-funded Teaching and Learning Research Programme study, ‘Learning in and for interagency working’. This project combines my key interests in work-based learning and social justice. My other research interests include widening participation in post-compulsory education; students’ experiences in further and higher education; students’ aspirations and identities; educational qualifications as economic and cultural capital; social class, ethnicity and education; media representations of the education sector.

Research Grants

• News Media Depiction of A-Level and GCSE Examination Results in 2003 - Other grant holders: Professor Roger Murphy, Dr Meryl Aldridge - Duration: August 2003 – January 2004 - Source of funding: Economic and Social Research Council
• School Sports Co-ordinators Programme – Impact Study - Other grant holders: Institution of Youth Sports, University of Loughborough; Professor Roger Murphy - Duration: January, 2003- 2009 - Source of Funding: Sports England
• Evaluation of the New Opportunities Fund’s New Opportunities for PE and Sport - Other grant holders: Institution of Youth Sports, University of Loughborough; Professor Roger Murphy - Duration: November, 2002- 2008 - Source of Funding: New Opportunities Fund
• Student Perceptions of the New A-Level Examinations and Media Reports on Published Results - Other grant holders: Professor Roger Murphy- Duration: June- August 2002 - Source of Funding: Joint Council for General Qualifications
• Media Depiction of A Level and GCSE Results in 2002 (pilot study) - Other grant holders: Professor Roger Murphy - Duration: August 2002 – February 2003 - Source of Funding: University of Nottingham
• Evaluation of the Learning Society Programme - Other grant holders: Professor Roger Murphy, Dr Rachel Johnson - Duration: June 2001- January 2002 - Source of Funding: Economic and Social Research Council
• Evaluation of Parents’ Topic Guides - Other grant holders: Professor Roger Murphy and Dr Peter Gates - Duration: June- September 2001- Source of Funding: Quality and Curriculum Authority

Other Professional Activities

I am a member of the organising group for the Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research (CSAT) and convenor of the Adult Learning SIG Seminar Series (2004-2005). I am also a member of the School of Education’s Research Grants Committee. Outside the School, I have participated in DfES’s Supporting Multiagency Working Design Group. In addition, I have refereed papers for Journal of Education Policy, International Journal of Lifelong Education, Journal of Education for Teaching, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Falmer Education Papers: for Inclusion and Social Justice, Mind Culture and Activity, Educational Research.

Publications (selection)

Warmington, P. (2009) Taking race out of scare quotes: race-conscious social analysis in an ostensibly post-racial world. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 12 (in press).

Warmington, P. (2007) Popular Press, Visible Value: how debates on exams and student debt have unmasked the commodity relations of the ‘learning age’, In A. Green, and G. Rikowski (Eds.) Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues Volume 1 – Opening the Dialogue (London: Palgrave Macmillan): 215-228.

Daniels, H., and Warmington P. (2007) Analysing third generation activity systems: labour-power, subject position and personal transformation. Journal of Workplace Learning Vol. 19 (6): 377 – 391.

Warmington, P., Daniels, H., Edwards, A. et al (2005) Interagency Collaboration (Bath: LIW) ISBN 095502840X.  

Warmington, P. and Murphy, R. (2004) Could Do Better?  Media depictions of UK educational assessment results, Journal of Education Policy, 19(3): 285-299.

Warmington, P. (2003) ‘You need a qualification for everything these days.’ The impact of work, welfare and disaffection upon the aspirations of Access to HE students, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 24 (1): 95-108.

Publications 2001 - 2008 [complete, pdf]