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Biography
Professor Bryony Hoskins has a chair in Comparative Social Science at the University of Roehampton. She is a world leading expert on citizenship education specialising in inequalities and political socialisation across Europe and the Middle East. Her latest book is on Education, Democracy and Inequality: Political Engagement and Citizenship Education in Europe and is published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Professor Hoskins has an excellent track record regarding funded research including having just won a large EU Horizon grant, ‘Gender Empowerment through Politics in Classrooms’ taking place in 6 European countries. Other current and recently funded research projects include ‘Measuring Life Skills and Citizenship Education in the Middle East and North Africa’ (funded by UNICEF), ‘The Skills Imperative 2035: Essential Skills for tomorrow’s workforce’ (Funded by the Nuffield Foundation) and ‘Post-16 Educational Trajectories and Social Inequalities in Political Engagement (Funded by the Nuffield Foundation).
Professor Hoskins has an exceptional record on knowledge exchange and impact and in collaboration with international organisations, UNICEF, World Bank, Council of Europe and UNESCO, has previously developed assessment instruments to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching 21st century/life skills within schools. These experiences were developed into a case study that was a 4* Ref2021 submission. Sociology | University of Roehampton, London
Professor Hoskins has 6 years of policy experience having previously worked at the Council of Europe in France leading on youth research, at the European Commission in Belgium and then in Italy leading the development of indicators on Active Citizenship.
Professor Hoskins is currently supervising PhD students including;
Lanora Callahan - Measuring the socioemotional impact of dance amongst disadvantaged and ethnic minority youth: a random control, mixed method approach
Tuba Tayfun Kayalarli – Identifying the role of community organisations in the integration of Turkish-speaking migrant women in London
Her recently successful PhD students are;
Dr Jinyu Yang: whose PhD was on Learning Citizenship and Political Engagement at University in the UK and China. This study is using mixed method research including the analysis of the Citizenship Education Longitudinal data to explore if university has an effect on engagement and establish which methods are effective.
Dr LiYuan Liu: Whose Phd was on Exploring the Relationship between Education, Economy and Individual Civic Attitudes in Europe and Asia. This study is quantitative and uses multilevel modelling to analyse World Values Survey and the IEA International Citizenship and Civic education Study data to identify if education plays a mediating role between the economic situation in a country and civic attitudes.
Professor Hoskins is particularly interested in supervising new postgraduate research in the following areas:
- citizenship education and Political socialisation
- Inequalities and political engagement
- The effect of the economic crisis on Citizenship
- Comparative research on political engagement across Europe
If you are student who is interested in undertaking a PhD in these areas, please contact her by email.
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G EPIC: Gender Empowerment through Politics In Classrooms (G-EPIC), 2023-2026
1/01/23 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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The Skills Imperative 2035: Essential Skills for tomorrow’s workforce (2022-2023)
1/07/22 → 31/03/23
Project: Research
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Post-16 Educational Trajectories and Social Inequalities in Political Engagement, 2020-22
1/04/21 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
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Does university participation facilitate young people’s citizenship behaviour in the UK?
Yang, J. & Hoskins, B., 9 Aug 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Cambridge Journal of Education. p. 1-19 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chapter 5 Socioeconomic Inequalities in Civic Learning in Nordic Schools: Identifying the Potential of In-School Civic Participation for Disadvantaged Students
Hoskins, B., 2 Mar 2021, Northern Lights on Civic and Citizenship Education : A Cross-national Comparison of Nordic Data from ICCS. 1st ed. Springer, p. 91-120 30 p. (Part of the IEA Research for Education book series (IEAR, volume 12) ).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Citizenship Education for Political Engagement; A Systematic Review of Controlled Trials
Donbavand, S. & Hoskins, P. B., 25 Apr 2021, In: Social Sciences. Soc. Sci. 2021, 10(5), 15Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Measuring and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Active Citizenship Education Programmes to Support Disadvantaged Youth
Liu, L., Donbavand, S., Hoskins, B., Janmaat, J. G. & Kavadias, D., 15 Oct 2021, In: Social Sciences. 10(10), 394Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Northern Lights on Civic and Citizenship Education: A Cross national comparison of Nordic data from ICCS
Hoskins, B., Huang, D. H. & Biseth, D. H., 1 Mar 2021, 1st ed. Springer.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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EU Cost Young-IN Working Group Meeting/Task-Force Workshop to finalise the policy recommendations: Transdisciplinary solutions to cross sectoral disadvantage in youth (YOUNG-IN).
Bryony Hoskins (Participant)
19 Dec 2022 → 20 Dec 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic event › Participation in academic workshop, seminar, course
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Professor Bryony Hoskins presented ‘The intergenerational transmission of the political engagement gap’ at the 2022 EU COST International conference on Young-in Findings: (Dis)advantaged youth - studies, contexts, solutions
Bryony Hoskins (Presenter)
28 Jun 2022Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Affiliation to non-academic organisation
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Prof Bryony Hoskins was an invited speaker, presenting two papers at the two day Conference hosted by LLAKES, Nuffield Foundation, and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - Young People in Britain Today: Diverging Trajectories of Engagement, Careers, and Well-Being.
Bryony Hoskins (Speaker)
16 Sep 2022Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Public speaking engagements
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Prof Bryony Hoskins presented two papers at the 2022 ECER Plus Online - the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association (EERA). The ECER Plus 2022 conference theme ‘Education in a Changing World: The impact of global realities on the prospects and experiences of educational research’.
Bryony Hoskins (Presenter)
8 Sep 2022Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Public speaking engagements
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Professor Hoskins advised the UNICEF and World Bank Project - Life Skills and Citizenship Education, Measurement Instrument Steering Committee group meeting.
Bryony Hoskins (Advisor)
1 Mar 2022Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Workshop and other training
Press / Media
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Volunteering and employment: debunking the myths of youth employment strategy
1/07/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media