School of Social and Political Science

Background

PhD working title:

Poverty of Aspiration? A Comparative Analysis of Educational and Occupational Aspirations of Teenagers in Three British Birth Cohort Studies.

Supervision: 

• Dr Roxanne Connelly
• Professor Vernon Gayle

Publications:

Book reviews:

Costello, P. (2024) Book Review: The Degree Generation: The Making of Unequal Graduate Lives, British Sociological Association Network Magazine. 

Qualifications:

• MA Policy Studies in Education, Institute of Education (UCL), 2023

  Dissertation title: Getting In, Getting On, Getting Out: An exploration of the experiences of first-in-family graduates and their parents in UK Higher Education. Supervised by Dr JD Carpentieri. 

• BA (Hons) Politics, University of East Anglia, 2016

Memberships:

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
• Member of the British Educational Research Association (BERA)
• Member of the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA)