Dr Lauren Stentiford

About me:

I am a Senior Lecturer in Education, having joined the School of Education in 2018. My research explores aspects of inequalities in compulsory and higher education, and I have a particular interest in gender, social class, disability and the intersection of these identity facets. My approach might be located within a sociological perspective. I gained my PhD at Exeter in 2017, for which I conducted a qualitative case study set in an elite British university that explored young women’s negotiations of academic achievement whilst studying either a male-dominated STEM or female-dominated arts/humanities discipline.

After gaining my PhD, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher on a number of projects being conducted within the School of Education. These included an ESRC-SWDTP funded methodological project on thematic qualitative data analysis, a Nuffield Foundation funded systematic review of the organisational arrangements of reading interventions, and an ESRC Impact Accelerator project that explored mental health leadership and policy in selected case study schools across England.

I am interested in qualitative research methods, including focus groups and diary methods. I am fully trained in systematic literature review methodology and have a specialism in qualitative systematic reviews. I am currently working as PI and Co-I on several internally and externally funded research projects that explore aspects of inclusion and exclusion in education.

Qualifications:

2017: PhD Education, University of Exeter (+3 ESRC funded)
2013: MSc Educational Research, University of Exeter
2010: BA Sociology, University of Exeter

2020: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2017: Stage 1 & 2 LTHE, University of Exeter