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Billy Wong

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University:

  • Director of Research and Evaluation (Access & Participation)
  • Member of Access and Participation Committee (APC)
  • Chair of Access and Participation Evaluation Subcommittee (APES)
  • Co-Chair of Diversity & Inclusion Community of Interest group (DICOI)
  • Member of Awarding Gap Steering Group
  • Member of TEF Strategy Group and Educational Gain subgroup

Institute of Education:

  • EdD and PhD supervisions
  • Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research Studies (PhD)
  • Research

Areas of interest

  • Sociology of Education
  • Higher Education
  • Social Mobility, Justice and Inequalities (e.g. of gender, class and ethnicity)
  • Education and career aspirations of young people
  • Science and computing education (and wider STEM education)

Postgraduate supervision

Current and Recent PhD and EdD Students, with Topics/Titles of their Research:

  • Hazel Jensen (with Dr David Dobraszczyk): Disability, health degree education and professional identity formation
  • Angie Lin (with Prof Carol Fuller): Trapped in your own country: The higher education experience of Educational Cross-Cultural Individuals in Thailand
  • Rose Mina Munjee (with Dr Geoff Taggart): Mindfulness and compassion practices to address racism: an anti-oppression framework for adult education
  • Megan Copsey-Blake (with Prof R Harris): Standardised English: a tool for social justice or oppression in UK higher education?
  • Nouf Hassanin (with Prof Yota Dimitriadi): The Roles of Home and School toward Digital Citizenship Concepts with Preschool Children in Saudi Arabia
  • Doris Leung Wai Wong (with Prof R Harris): Good teaching as revealed by quantitative and qualitative SET data - a case study of a Hong Kong university
  • Albert Mususa (with Prof R Harris): An exploration of professional self-understanding of teachers in alternative educational provision
  • Millicent Thomas (with Dr Karen Jones): Socialisation experiences of Black middle leaders in secondary school and what they do to ‘fit in’ and get on’ as a newcomer in a department
  • Amel Abada (with Dr Maria Kambouri): Mothers' intersubjective perceptions of play and play-based learning in the early years. Completed 2024
  • Eqab Almutairi (with Prof Yota Dimitriadi): The use of WhatsApp as Digital Personalised Learning Environments to Support Informal Learning in Kuwait: A Multi-Perspective Investigation. Completed 2023.
  • Fatima Zahra Abbou (with Dr Karen Jones): Female Educational Leaders Career Progression in Algerian Universities. Completed 2022
  • John Knight: Square pegs in round holes: A study of student identity in a high aspiration international school environment. Completed 2022
  • Ilan Dwek (with Dr Tim Williams): How do educational experiences and deaf identity relate to employment success?. Completed 2022
  • Peter Jeffreys (with Prof Yota Dimitriadi): To what extent can social media influence parental engagement in primary schools? Completed 2022
  • Maha Al-yousef (with Prof Gill Crozier): The role of higher education in developing female students’ social and cultural identities: A case study of one university in Saudi Arabia (University of Roehampton). Completed 2021.
  • Amanda Cockayne (with Prof Elizabeth McCrum): An investigation into the professional roles and identities of school based mentors of trainee teachers. Completed 2021.
  • Peter Kemp (with Prof Debbie Epstein): Learning pathways for digitally creative youth: a study of 3D animation (University of Roehampton). Completed 2020.
  • Myrto Nikolopoulou (with Prof Marie-Pierre Moreau): Young people’s social media online practices in Greece: Developing identities online and shaping future aspirations (University of Roehampton). Completed 2019.
  • Ismail Karaoz (with Dr Geoff Taggart): The affordances of technology in second/foreign language learning for learner autonomy. Completed 2019.

Research projects

Current and Recent Research Projects:

  • Subject Choice, Attainment and Representation in Computing (SCARIComp) project (2021-2024), CI, funded by the Nuffield Foundation (with P. Kemp, King’s College London) -
  • Exploring Evaluation Wicked Issues with the HE Sector (2023-2024), CI, funded by QAA (Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) (with L. Austen, Sheffield Hallam University) -Ìý
  • Inclusive institutions: enabling and supporting culture change (2022), CI, funded by Advance HE (with T. Chiu, Imperial College London)
  • Supporting the identity development of underrepresented students (SIDUS) (2020-2021), CI, funded by Imperial College London ()
  • Student Experiences in STEM degrees (SESTEM) (2018-2021), PI, funded by 91µ¼º½ ()
  • ‘Mapping the characteristics of the ‘ideal’ student at university’ (2017-2019), PI, funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust (with T. Chiu, Imperial College London) –Ìý

Past projects:

  • Youth Engagement Initiative (PI, funded by the Institute of Physics)
  • Mini-Police at 91µ¼º½ (PI, Thames Valley Police, with T. Walters)
  • The state of computing education in England (CI, with P. Kemp & M. Berry)
  • Higher education: Views of lecturers toward student’ (PI, funded by Santander).
  • ‘Digitally-skilled young people and their aspirations’ (CI, funded by Google CS4HS, with P. Kemp).
  • ‘A review of social mobility’ (funded by ASCL, with B. Francis)
  • ‘Enterprising Science’ (funded by BP, with L. Archer et al)
  • ‘ASPIRES’ (funded by ESRC, with L. Archer et al)
  • ‘A review of informal science learning’ (funded by Wellcome Trust, with J. Falk et al)

Websites/blogs

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External Roles

  • Principal External Examiner, University of Exeter
  • External examiner, BA Social Sciences, King’s College London
  • Research & Evaluation committee member for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes (TASO)
  • Accessibility and inclusion advisory panel member for the Ogden Trust
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief of British Educational Research Journal (BERJ)
  • Co-Founder of the Evaluation Collective
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Publications

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