Sam Shaw
Head of Programme BA (Hons) Children, Young People &
Families
Sam Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood and
Youth (Education) and Head of Programme for the BA (Hons) Children,
Young People and Families. She also teaches on the BA (Hons)
Education Studies and Foundation Degree programmes.
After initially being employed as a Training
Manager in the corporate sector, Sam took a change of direction and
entered FE and HE education in 2003. Her first
lecturing roles were on CACHE Early Years, Care and Education
programmes before moving into HE at the end of 2004. She has
worked on a number of BA (Hons) as Module Leader for Sociology,
Social Policy and Family Policy for Leeds University and Subject
Leader for Sociology and Criminology at Huddersfield University’s
Barnsley Centre in both Humanities and Psychological Studies before
taking up her current post at York St John.
Sam gained a first class honours degree in
Child & Family Studies from Leeds University, followed by a
PGCE (FE) from Huddersfield. She then went on to complete an
MA in Educational Research at Sheffield University before embarking
on her PhD project ‘Living and Learning in the Coalfields of West
Yorkshire’ at both the University of Sheffield and the University
of the West of England. The Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC) fund her PhD work and she is moving towards the
completion of her research in the near future.
Research Interests
Sam’s main research activities revolve around
the transition to adulthood of young people, not purely in an
educational context, but also how their lives are very much
intertwined with the wider aspects of living in 21st
century Britain today. Her particular interests include:
- Methodological innovations in youth
research
- Historical and sociological constructions of
childhood and youth
- Visual methods and voice
- Holistic/multi-disciplinary research in the
social sciences
She is a member of the British Educational
Research Association (BERA), of the British Sociological
Association (BSA), and of the International Visual Sociology
Association (IVSA).
Conference Papers
'You know more about me than my mum!':
Exploring Video Diary & Voice (Paper presented at British
Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference April 2009)
'We're not Chavs!': Living Between Rhetoric
and Reality: A Critique of Widening Participation Policy in the
Regeneration of a West Yorkshire Coalfield (Paper presented at
University of Bristol (HEFCE) Widening Participation Seminar
September 2009)
Contact Details
E: S.Shaw@yorksj.ac.uk
T: 01904 876249
Office Location: QN