William Baker
Lecturer, Q-Step
- Email:
- bakerw@cardiff.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)29 2087 9673
I am a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences here at Cardiff University where I teach on the BSc in Social Analytics and across a range of education modules. I am also a member of the Q-Step Centre.
I am a broad-based social scientist whose work mainly centers on the sociology of education. My work is concerned with understanding educational inequality and the consequences this has for people’s life-chances and their identities. Much of my research so far has focused on how young people form goals and plans regarding education and the labour market. I’m also interested in studying the origins, development and stratification of values, pro-social preferences and moral worldviews.
Education and qualifications
2015: DPhil (Education), University of Oxford
2010: MSc (Education Research Methodology), University of Oxford
2009: MA (Sociology of Education), Institute of Education, London
Career overview
2014 - present: Lecturer (SOCSI), Cardiff University
Professional memberships
British Educational Research Association
2019
- Baker, W. and Barg, K. 2019. Parental values in the U.K.. British Journal of Sociology
2018
- Baker, W. and Connolly, M. 2018. Educational research journals: a partial view from the UK. Revista Española de Pedagogía 76(271), pp. 437-448. (10.22550/REP76-3-2018-02)
2017
- Baker, W. 2017. Aspirations: the moral of the story. British Journal of Sociology of Education 38(8), pp. 1203-1216. (10.1080/01425692.2016.1254540)
2016
- Burch-Brown, J. and Baker, W. 2016. Religion and reducing prejudice. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations 19(6), pp. 784-807. (10.1177/1368430216629566)
- Baker, W., Garner, S. and Ward, M. R. M. 2016. Review Symposium. British Journal of Sociology of Education 37(5), pp. 780-787. (10.1080/01425692.2016.1181380)
2014
- Baker, W.et al. 2014. Aspirations, education and inequality in England: insights from the Effective Provision of Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education Project. Oxford Review of Education 40(5), pp. 525-542. (10.1080/03054985.2014.953921)
2011
- Baker, W. 2011. Explaining the outbreak and dynamics of the 1911 school strike wave in Britain. Reflecting Education 6, pp. 25-30.
I currently teach on the following undergraduate modules:
Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences (Year 1)
Education and Society (Year 1)
Inequality and the Division of Labour (Year 2)
Sociology of Education (Year 2)
I currently teach on the following postgraduate course:
Global Educational Futures (MA)