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Name: Dr Sarah Aynsley, Senior Lecturer in Education
Sarah's research interests focus on transitions between further and higher education, with a particular emphasis on young peoples' career pathways . Her doctoral thesis (Youth Transitions: an investigation into how effectively Curriculum 2000 has broadened the Advanced Level Curriculum and how this has affected student' career aspirations) was completed in 2004. Sarah is also interested in the links between vocational choices made in further education and progression to higher education and in the notion of graduate employability.

Name: Dr Barbara Crossouard, Senior Lecturer in Education
Barbara's main research interests are assessment, doctoral education and doctoral pedagogies, including their development using digital technologies. She was previously the researcher on the EU funded 'Internet-Based Assessment' project. She was recently awarded an annual Newer Researcher prize by the Society for Research into Higher Education. This supported a research project on the career trajectories of newly qualified researchers.

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Name: Professor Mairead Dunne, Reader in Education
Máiréad has worked in Higher Education in England, Australia and Fiji and on academic link programmes with Universities in the Philippines, Pakistan, Germany, South Africa and Ghana. Her interests are in research methodologies and methodological diversity with specific substantive interests in learner identities, curriculum and inclusion.

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Name: Dr Louise Gazeley, Lecturer in Education
Louise contributes to a range of academic courses. Her research interests are on the relationship between educational and social (dis)advantage. Louise's research includes access to higher education for under-represented groups; disciplinary exclusion and equity; how UK education policy addresses issues relating to social class; how initial teacher education addresses issues of equity and exclusion; expectations of parental involvement in education.

Name: Professor Valerie Hey
Valerie's research interests include affects, the body and ir(rationality) in higher education, the psycho-social formation of class, gender, sexuality and 'race'. re/thinking cultural studies, and post-structuralist methodologies in education.

Name: Dr Tamsin Hinton-Smith, Lecturer in Sociology
Tamsin is a member of the Centre for Gender Studies. Her teaching includes the sociology of education and she has received an award for excellence in teaching. Tamsin's broad research focus is on marginalised identities and social participation using qualitative (including online) research methods. Her key area of expertise is student parents - particularly lone and teenage parents - and participation in learning, including higher education. Tamsin's primary research area is lone and teenage parents' participation in learning, training and work. Her work addresses the ways in which student parents manage the competing demands of family, learning and paid work, and the role of higher education policy and pedagogic practice in supporting or problematising this. Tamsin's recent publications include Lone parents' experiences in Higher Education 2012 (Niace: Leicester). She also edited Widening Participation in Higher Education: Casting the net wide? 2012 (Palgrave: London). Tamsin has also worked as a Westminster parliamentary researcher on educational issues.

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Name: Dr Linda Morrice, Senior Lecturer in Education 
Linda's research interests cover adult, higher education and lifelong learning theory, policy and practice. She has developed a focus on refugee and migration studies which has fostered an interdisciplinary approach to her research and enabled her to explore issues of learning, equity, citizenship and identity from a distinctive perspective. She has a particular interest in participative and peer research, and expertise in life history, biographical and narrative research methodologies. Linda is on the Editorial Board of Studies in the Education of Adults and is Member of Council and Honorary Treasurer of SCUTREA (Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults). She is co-founder and co-convenor of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Network on Migration, Ethnicity, Racism and Xenophobia.Louise contributes to a range of academic courses. Her research interests are on the relationship between educational and social (dis)advantage. Louise's research includes access to higher education for under-represented groups; disciplinary exclusion and equity; how UK education policy addresses issues relating to social class; how initial teacher education addresses issues of equity and exclusion; expectations of parental involvement in education.

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Name: Dr John Pryor, Reader in Education
John recently completed four years as Convenor for the Doctor of Education (EdD) at Sussex and is Chief External Examiner for the same course at the Institute of Education, University of London. His research interests include formative assessment and pedagogy, the doctorate and research training in the social sciences, identity and equity issues, international and intercultural study. John has carried out research in both the UK and sub-Saharan Africa. His research approach is mostly that of micro-sociology, including collaborative ethnography and action research, but connecting with wider and policy issues through socio cultural theory. John directed the UK section of the Internet Based Assessment in Higher Education Project (EU funded) and is currently co-directing a major project examining initial and continuing education for teachers funded by the Hewlett Foundation.