Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods
Sefydliad Ymchwill Gymdeithasol ac Economaidd, Data a Dulliau Cymru
www.wiserd.ac.uk

Professor Sally Power

Job Title: Professor, School of Social Sciences

Institution: Cardiff University

Email: powers3@cf.ac.uk

Telephone: 029 2087 4738

Role: WISERD Co-Director, Cardiff

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Prior to joining the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University in 2004 as a Professorial Fellow, Sally Power was based at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she was Head of the School of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies and Director of the Education Policy Research Unit. Before that she also worked at the Universities of Bristol, Warwick and West of England.

She is Co-Editor of the BSA journal Sociology and Chair of the British Educational Research Association’s Academic Publications Committee.

Research Interests

Her research interests focus on the relationship between education and inequality, and particularly social class differentiation, as well as the relative success and failure of education policies designed to promote greater equality of opportunity.

Current Research

  • ­­2011 on going: Evaluation of Foundation Phase, Welsh Government (with C Taylor), £980,000
  • 2010-2011: The Social Construction Talent: A Comparative Study of Education, Recruitment and Occupational Elites’, ESRC, £54,000 [with P. Brown and as part of SKOPE centre]

Since 2010, Sally is Director of the WISERD-affiliated EC-funded NESET (Network of Experts on Social Aspects of Education and Training) which provides the European Commission with evidence and guidance on educational issues in Europe.

Click here to view Sally’s official Cardiff University bio page

Publications

Power S, Frandji D, 2010, ‘Education markets, the new politics of recognition and the increasing fatalism toward inequality’ Journal of Education Policy 25(3) pp 385–396 (Available here)

Power S, Curtis A, Whitty G, Edwards T, 2010,  ‘Private education and disadvantage: the experiences of assisted place holders’ International Studies in Sociology of Education 20 (01) pp 23-38 (Available here)

Power S, Taylor C, Lewis J, Connolly M, Thomas G, Wyn Jones S, 2010, ‘Realising the ‘Learning Country’: Research activity and capacity within Welsh local authorities’ Contemporary Wales 23

Power S, Taylor C, Rees G, Jones K, 2009, ‘Out-of-school learning: variations in provision and participation in secondary schools’ Research Papers in Education 24(4) pp 439-60 (Available here)

Power S, 2009, ‘Le New Labour et la troisième voie : une évolution de la politique de l’éducation pour une évolution de la classe moyenne’ Le Revue Francaise de Pedagogie 166 Janvier-Février-Mars (Available here)