Stevenson, Jacqueline
Name: Jacqueline Stevenson
Position: Reader (Widening Participation)
Email: J.Stevenson@leedsmet.ac.uk
Qualifications
BA (hons) History, University of Cambridge, 1986
Postgraduate Certificate in Education, University of Manchester, 1990
MEd. (Lifelong Learning), University of Leeds, 2002 (Critical Study: exploring the ethical implications of case study and life history approaches to educational research)
EdD. University of Leeds (on-going. Thesis centred on the social and educational experiences of students from 'religious' backgrounds)
Biography
Jacqueline has worked at Leeds Met since 2001. From 2003 to 2008 she was Deputy Manager of the Access Institute, which commissions, reports upon and disseminates evaluative and action research projects related to community engagement, social inclusion and widening participation in Higher Education. She has managed a wide range of research projects in partnership with a range of public sector, voluntary and community organisations including Leeds City Council, the Refugee Council, Regional Consortium for Asylum Seekers & Refugees, and other universities and colleges. External project funders include ESF, Aimhigher, Equal, Action on Access and the HE Academy.
Much of Jacqueline's recent work has centred on issues around race, ethnicity and social class in relation to access to higher education and educational achievement. She has researched extensively with refugees and asylum seekers, members of ethnic minority communities, offenders and ex-offenders, young people leaving public care, those who are long-term unemployed, substance misusers and people who are homeless. Her research is primarily qualitative in focus and she has a particular interest in narrative research including story-telling and narrative inquiry.
Jacqueline is currently studying for a Doctorate in Education researching the social and educational experiences of students from 'religious' backgrounds.
Publications
Stevenson J. & Willott J. (2009, forthcoming) Refugees: the international home students. Chapter in Jones E. (ed.) Internationalisation - The Student Voice
Stevenson, J. and Willott J. (2008) "The role of cultural capital theory in explaining the absence from UK higher education of refugees and other non-traditional students". In Whither Adult Education in the Learning Paradigm? Crowther, J., Edwards, V., Galloway, V., Shaw, M. and Tett, L. (Eds). Edinburgh, SCUTREA: 484-492
Stevenson, J. and Willott J. (2007). "Standing on the threshold: negotiating insider and outsider status in cross-cultural research". In Researching adult learning: communities and partnerships in the local and global context. R. Mark, R. Jay, B. McCabe and R. Moreland (Eds). Belfast, SCUTREA: 419-426.
Stevenson, J. and Willott, J. (2007). "The aspiration and access to higher education of teenage refugees in the UK." Compare: A journal of comparative education 37(5): 671 - 687.
Stevenson J. & Willott S.J. (2006). Cultural influences in data collection and analysis: issues in conducting research with refugees. Inter-cultural Perspectives on Research into Adult Learning: a Global Dialogue. J. C. P. Armstrong, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (eds.) Leeds, Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Leeds/SCUTREA
Willott S.J. & Stevenson. J. (2006). An analysis of gendered attitudes and responses to employability training. Journal of Vocational Education & Training 58(4): 441453.
Stevenson J., Heyworth B. & Wolton, E. (2006) 'Studio12: working in partnership to reach new audiences and combat social exclusion in Leeds' Update 5(5): 26-28
Stevenson, J. and Willott S. J. (2005) Overcoming Multiple Barriers to Accessing Learning in Towards a Global Understanding of Lifelong Learning: making a difference, Hudson, T., Abramson, M., Acland, T., Braham, J., Hill, M., Lines, A., Mclinden, M., Saunders, D. and Storan, J. (Eds), Forum for Access and Continuing Education: 252-260
Stevenson J., May E. & Willott S.J. (2005) Partnerships for Foundation Degrees in rural areas. Forward 7:11-13
Conference Papers
Stevenson, J. (2009) The methodological and ethical implications of 'story telling' in educational research, ESREA Wisdom and knowledge in researching and learning lives: diversity, difference and commonalities Conference, Milan, Forthcoming March 2009
Stevenson, J. (2009) From behind locked doors: narratives of learning in prison, ESREA Local development, community and adult learning: learning landscapes between the mainstream and the margins Conference, Magdeburg, Forthcoming May 2009
Stevenson, J. (2008) "Always on the outside, always looking in": Ethnic minority women's experiences of exclusion from Higher Education Communities of Practice, Conference Paper: ESREA Access, Learning Careers and Identities Network Conference: Educational Journeys and Changing Lives, Seville, Spain 10-12th December 2008
Stevenson, J. Clegg, S. and Willott, J. (2008) "'I don't have a clue': students' conceptualisation of extra-curricular activities and graduate outcomes", Conference Paper: British Educational Research Association Conference, Herriot-Watt university, Edinburgh, 3-6th September 2008
Clegg, S. Stevenson, J. and Willott, J. (2008) The blurring of the curriculum: conceptions of curricular and extra- curricular among staff , Conference Paper: British Educational Research Association Conference, Herriot-Watt university, Edinburgh, 3-6th September 2008
Willott, J., Clegg, S. and Stevenson, J.(2008) Extending conceptualisations of the diversity and value of extra-curricular activities: a cultural capital approach to graduate outcomes, Conference Paper: British Educational Research Association Conference, Herriot-Watt university, Edinburgh, 3-6th September 2008
Stevenson, J. and Willott, J. (2008) "Balancing ethical principles: the implication for educational research when the principle of non-maleficence outweighs that of beneficence", Conference Paper: British Educational Research Association Conference, Herriot-Watt university, Edinburgh, 3-6th September 2008
Willott, J. And Stevenson, J. (2008), Refugees: home students with international needs, British Association for International and Comparative Education Conference 'Internationalisation in Education: Culture, Context and Difference', University of Glasgow, Scotland, 4-6 September 2008
Willott J. & Stevenson J. (2006) Meeting the employment skills needs of professional refugees Social Policy Association Conference 'The State of Welfare: Past, Present and Future', Birmingham, July 2006
Stevenson J. & Willott J. (2006) Diversity and Inclusion: Refugee Children and Higher Education British Association for International and Comparative Education Conference 'Diversity and Inclusion: Issues in Comparative and International Education' Belfast, September 2006
Elliott E., Stevenson J. & Willott J. (2005) Widening the horizon. Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research In The Education of Adults Diversity & Difference in Lifelong Learning, University of Sussex, July 2005
Stevenson J. & Willott J. (2005) Sustaining dreams and transforming lives 'Work and Family: Change and Transformation'; Manchester Metropolitan University, March 2005
Stevenson J. & Willott J. (2004) The impact of the Leeds EQUAL e-Employability Programme. The Impact of Employability: education, enterprise, employment and the economy, University of Central Lancashire, July 2004
Stevenson, J. (2004), Responses to employment training - sustaining dreams or transforming lives - some findings from the Leeds Equal e-employability tracking study, Changing employment cultures: Practice to Policy under Equal, United Projects Access Economy Conference, Strasbourg, 15 -16 November 2004
Guest lectures and seminars
Stevenson, J. (2009) Extending Conceptualisations of Diversity & Value of Extra-Curricular Activities, The Centre for Academic Practice, University of Bournemouth, January 2009
Stevenson, J. (2007) Evaluating and monitoring your community activity, Reach Out, Engage and Inspire: Building partnerships between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and their communities Conference, University of Huddersfield, November 2007
Stevenson, J. (2007) Evaluating Activity: Aim Higher West Yorkshire Conference, University of Huddersfield, July 2007
Stevenson, J. (2005), The Leeds Equal Tracking Study, From Social Exclusion to Secure Employment, final Equal Conference, Leeds, November 2005
Funded research projects
(2008), Mainstreaming & Sustaining Widening Participation, Action on Access, Project leader, (project value £3000)
(2007-8) Degree attainment, ethnicity & gender: Surveying English HEIs to research strategies and policies to raise degree attainment of ethnic minority students, HEA, Co-investigator (£8,000)
(2007-8) Extending conceptualisations of the diversity and value of extra-curricula activities: a cultural capital approach to graduate outcomes, HEA, Co-investigator (£29,347)
(2007-8) Embedding ethics and ethical practice within and across the curriculum, Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund, Project Leader (£4,700)
(2007) "Investigating the cross-cultural application of reflection and reflective practice", Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund, Project Leader (£3,500)
(2006-8)'Free with Words' project with Leeds Library Service and Leeds Prisons. Evaluating impact of project to encourage reading and writing in prisons, Project Leader, (£5,250)
(2006), Refugee project continuation, continuation of existing refugee project, production of IAG literature for adults and course admission staff, Aimhigher Y&H, Principal Investigator, (£26,000)
(2006) Aspiration Raising for Refugee Children, research into attitudes to FE & HE of young refugees and barriers faced in accessing it, Aimhigher Y&H, Project leader, (£15,967)
(2006) Refugee research, dissemination of research into overcoming barriers faced by refugees entering HE, Aimhigher WY, Principal Investigator, (£10,098)
(2005) Refugee Barriers to HE, research into barriers to HE faced by refugees in WY, Aimhigher WY, Principal Investigator (£8,948)
(2005) Overcoming the Barriers, Research into trans-national best practice in pattern breaking training for marginalised groups, EQUAL 1, Principal Investigator (total bid value £53,919)
(2005) Gender & Dissemination, Researching effects of gender on EQUAL project outcomes, and dissemination of results, EQUAL 1, Principal Investigator (total bid value £48,452)
(2004-05), Study Skills research, researching best practice in providing marginalised people with study skills, EQUAL 1, Principal Investigator, (total bid value £27,867)
(2004) Rural SMEs, Researching how rural SMEs in N Yorks are engaging with FDs, Aimhigher NY, Co-investigator (£12,000),
(2003-05) Beneficiary tracking, researching effects of project interventions on beneficiaries' employability, EQUAL 1, Principal Investigator (total bid value £69,501)
(2004-05) Widening the Horizon, Providing information on HE to those in care in N Yorks, Aimhigher NY, Co-investigator(£15,750)
Funded evaluation projects
(2007) 'Refugees in to Teaching' project evaluation, Refugee Council/Teacher Development Agency (£7000)
(2005) Leeds Museum Public Consultation,Research into how the history of community and faith groups in Leeds should be represented in the new museum, Leeds City Council (£7,456)
(2005) Young Citizen's Panel, Evaluation of participant's responses to YCP activities, WY Police (£1,000)
(2005) Voluntary Agencies Project evaluation, evaluating impact and outcomes of Voluntary Agencies Partnership Aimhigher WY, (£5,008)
Funded teaching projects
(2007) Making Your Experience Count: project to support 20 refugees and other members of ethnic minority communities to recognise and accredit previous experience and learning, ESF/Embedding Equality and Diversity in Learning
(2006) Refugee Women Access to Employment, delivery of personal development and employability skills training to 10 refugee women, Yorkshire & Humberside Consortium for Asylum Seekers & Refugees, (£4,500)
(2005) Study Skills training, Development & delivery of accredited training module in study and employability skills to 60 marginalised adults, EQUAL 1 (total bid value £27,457)
(2005) Graduate employability seminar, Seminar on graduate employability (delivered with careers service) PRIAE (EQUAL 2) (£1,600)
