Dr Bruce Marjoribanks, SFHEA

I am Programme Leader for MA Childhood and Youth Studies. I am also the module leader for the research module (SSCM39) and Contemporary Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies (SSCM40) on this MA degree.

I am the module leader for CHS387 Education and Society which is taught on both the BA (Hons) Childhood Studies and BA (Hons) Childhood and Society (Top-Up), and I am module leader for CHS204 The Child and the Social and Economic Environment on BA (Hons) Childhood Studies. I am also a seminar tutor on other modules for these two courses.

I also am the module leader for Global Childhoods (SSCM29) on MSc Inequality and Society.

In addition, I supervise undergraduate dissertation students and postgraduate master and doctoral dissertation students.

I am interested in multicultural and minority education, internationalisation of the curriculum, and higher education policy.

My PhD investigated the international student experience within one geographical location. I utilised Bourdieu's concept of social and cultural capital as a conceptual framework to explore the students' experiences within university study and the communities in which they resided.

I have also collaborated on a project with colleagues to explore how fundraising experience lead to communities of practice and improvement on student achievement. I have contributed to the following:

• Department of Children, Schools, and Families Report No. DCSF-RR176 entitled “Early Years Learning and Development Literature Review” (2009).
• Paul Hamlyn Foundation/HEFCE entitled What Works? Student Retention and Success (2011).

• Sociology of education
• Internationalisation to the curriculum
• Multicultural and minority education
• Diversity issues – class, religion, race, gender, sexuality
• Childhood studies