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Overview

Carol Vincent is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with significant contributions to education, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, gender studies, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their recent publications cover various topics within these fields, including parental involvement in education, family and disability support research, child development and digital technology, early childhood education and development, religious education and schools, migration, refugees and integration, as well as gender politics and representation.

Some of their notable recent papers include:

  • The illiberalism of liberalism: schools and fundamental controversial values (2020) published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Belonging in England today: Schools, race, class and policy (2021) published in Journal of Sociology
  • Lessons from lockdown: Autistic students, parents and mainstream schools (2023) published in British Educational Research Journal
  • Taking stock: JEP, heading for a mature, middle age (2020) published in Journal of Education Policy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Carol Vincent include:

  • Bresciani Etienne
  • Georgia Pavlopoulou
  • B Antoine
  • Benoist Grégoire
  • Chabrol Brigitte

Their work has appeared frequently in journals such as Early Years Educator, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Sociology, British Educational Research Journal, and Sociology.

Carol Vincent's research spans across multiple themes related to education and social sciences, with particular attention to parental engagement, educational experiences of children with disabilities, and social integration issues in educational settings.

Best Publications

  • ’I Heard It on the Grapevine’: ‘hot’ knowledge and school choice

    Stephen J. Ball;Carol Vincent

  • `Making Up' the Middle-Class Child: Families, Activities and Class Dispositions:

    Carol Vincent;Stephen J. Ball

  • Parents And Teachers: Power And Participation

    Carol Vincent

  • The Colour of Class: The educational strategies of the Black middle classes

    Nicola Rollock;David Gillborn;Carol Vincent;Stephen J. Ball

  • ‘The children have only got one education and you have to make sure it's a good one’: parenting and parent–school relations in a neoliberal age

    Carol Vincent

  • Parenting priorities and pressures: furthering understanding of ‘concerted cultivation’

    Carol Vincent;Claire Maxwell

  • ‘You got a pass, so what more do you want?’: race, class and gender intersections in the educational experiences of the Black middle class

    David Gillborn;Nicola Rollock;Carol Vincent;Stephen J. Ball

  • Home — School Relationships: ‘the swarming of disciplinary mechanisms'?

    Carol Vincent;Sally Tomlinson

  • Being strategic, being watchful, being determined: Black middle-class parents and schooling

    Carol Vincent;Nicola Rollock;Stephen Ball;David Gillborn

  • Social class and parental agency

    Carol Vincent

  • Childcare, choice and social class: Caring for young children in the UK:

    Carol Vincent;Annette Braun;Stephen J . Ball

  • Between the estate and the state: struggling to be a ‘good’ mother

    Carol Vincent;Stephen J. Ball;Annette Braun

  • Social Justice, Education and Identity

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  • Childcare, choice and class practices

    Carol Vincent;Stephen Ball

  • A Market in Love? Choosing Pre‐school Childcare

    Carol Vincent;Stephen J. Ball

  • The Public Identities of the Black Middle Classes: Managing Race in Public Spaces:

    Nicola Rollock;David Gillborn;Carol Vincent;Stephen Ball

  • The social geography of childcare: making up a middle‐class child

    Carol Vincent;Stephen J. Ball;Sophie Kemp

  • Raising Middle-class Black Children: Parenting Priorities, Actions and Strategies

    Carol Vincent;Nicola Rollock;Stephen Ball;David Gillborn

  • Class, Culture and Agency: Researching parental voice

    Carol Vincent;Jane Martin

  • "This won't take long…": Interviewing, ethics and diversity

    Carol Vincent;Simon Warren

  • Multiculture, urban middle class competencies and friendship practices in super-diverse geographies

    Sarah Neal;Carol Vincent

Frequent Co-Authors

David Gillborn
David Gillborn University of Birmingham
Diane Reay
Diane Reay University of Cambridge
Pam Sammons
Pam Sammons University of Oxford
Phillip Brown
Phillip Brown Cardiff University
Miriam David
Miriam David University College London
Madeleine Arnot
Madeleine Arnot University of Cambridge
Geoff Whitty
Geoff Whitty University of Newcastle Australia

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