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Research Profile

Prof Debbie Epstein 


  • Research Projects

    • Planned to begin in 2014: Forbidden Lives: Inter-racial Relationships in South Africa during and after Apartheid. With Professor Robert Morrell (University of Cape Town). Proposal in preparation.
    • 2010-2014: Elite independent schools in globalising circumstances: a multi-sited global ethnography. Funded by the Australian Research Council. Project Leader: Professor Jane Kenway (Monash); Chief Investigator: Professor Fazal Rizvi (Melbourne); International Researchers: Professor Debbie Epstein (Cardiff), Associate Professor Aaron Koh (Singapore), Professor Cameron McCarthy (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Research Fellow: Dr Johannah Fahey (Monash). This project investigates formations of elites in and through schooling in the UK and former colonies (Australia, Barbados, Cyprus, Hong Kong, India, South Africa and Singapore) as well as a school in the British ‘public school’ model in Argentina. 


    Reports on Completed Research Project and Consultancies

    • 2007: End of Award Report: Mathematical Images and Identities: education, entertainment, social justice Mendick, H., Epstein, D. & Moreau, M.-P. Swindon: Economic and Social Research Council (graded outstanding)
    • 2005: An Evaluation of Anti-Bullying Policies in Welsh Primary Schools. Epstein, D., Dowler, A. and Mellor, D. Cardiff: Welsh Assembly Government
    • 2004: Evaluation of the ‘Children 5-16: Growing into the twenty-first century’ Research Programme. Epstein, D. and Swain, J. Swindon: Economic and Social Research Council (a confidential report to ESRC)
    • 2000: End of Award Report: The Violence-Resilient School: a comparative study of schools and their environments. Hewitt, R.L., Epstein, D.A., Leonard, D. and Watkins, C. (graded ‘good’)
    • 2000: End of Award Report: Children’s ‘Relationship Cultures’ in Years 5 and 6: a qualitative study. Swindon: Economic and Social Research Council (graded outstanding)