Research Profile
Ms Amber Fensham
Position:PhD Student
School:Social Sciences
Email:FenshamAJ@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone:+ 44 (0)29 208 74436
Extension:74436
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contact info:
Address:Room 2.07, 1-3 Museum Place
Telephone:+ 44 (0)29 208 74436
Extension:74436
Additional
contact info:
Address:Room 2.07, 1-3 Museum Place
Qualifications
- PhD Sociology (Education Pathway), Cardiff University (+3 ESRC funded): 2012- present
- MSc, Social Science Research Methods (Sociology), University of Bristol; with Distinction in dissertation entitled: ‘Knuckling down and getting on with life’: The telling of two learner identities storied across youth transitions, 2011-2012
- BA Sociology (First Class honours), The University of Durham; dissertation entitled: ‘Virtually telling stories: Cyber-sociality and governmentality in Second Life’, 2008-2011
Research Interests
- Home-schooling
- E-learning & learner identities
- Cybercultures; digital networking and sociality
- Situational analysis
PhD Topic/Area
An exploration of the role of online networks on the reconfiguration of home-schooling
Summary
This thesis aims to explore the place, use and purpose of online networks for home-schooling. Subsidiary to this, it aims to analyse the significance of these technologies for challenging representations of home-schooling and rethinking the relationship between the individual and the collective in education.
The focal research questions will explore:
- What are the representations of home-schooling?
- What is the nature and intended purpose of online networks for home-schooling?
- In what ways are online networks re-appropriated and selectively embedded in aspects of home-schooling?
- In what ways can ‘the social’ be re-theorized from this?
Research Supervisor/s