Jennifer DeWitt

Best Publications

• "Doing" Science versus "Being" a Scientist: Examining 10/11-Year-Old Schoolchildren's Constructions of Science through the Lens of Identity.

  Louise Archer;Jennifer DeWitt;Jonathan Osborne;Justin Dillon

  921
  Citations

• Science Aspirations, Capital, and Family Habitus How Families Shape Children’s Engagement and Identification With Science

  Louise Archer;Jennifer DeWitt;Jonathan Osborne;Justin Dillon

  787
  Citations

• “Science capital”: A conceptual, methodological, and empirical argument for extending bourdieusian notions of capital beyond the arts

  Louise Archer;Emily Dawson;Jennifer DeWitt;Amy Seakins

  769
  Citations

• A Short Review of School Field Trips: Key Findings from the Past and Implications for the Future

  Jennifer Eileen Dewitt;Martin Storksdieck

  663
  Citations

• 'Not girly, not sexy, not glamorous': primary school girls' and parents' constructions of science aspirations

  Louise Archer;Jennifer DeWitt;Jonathan Osborne;Justin Dillon

  412
  Citations

• Young Children's Aspirations in Science: The unequivocal, the uncertain and the unthinkable

  Jennifer Dewitt;Jonathan Osborne;Louise Archer;Justin Dillon

  344
  Citations

• Supporting Teachers on Science‐focused School Trips: Towards an integrated framework of theory and practice

  Jennifer DeWitt;Jonathan Osborne

  339
  Citations

• Spheres of influence: what shapes young people’s aspirations at age 12/13 and what are the implications for education policy?

  Louise Archer;Jennifer DeWitt;Billy Wong

  336
  Citations

• “Balancing acts'': Elementary school girls' negotiations of femininity, achievement, and science

  Louise Archer;Jennifer DeWitt;Jonathan Osborne;Justin Dillon

  310
  Citations

• Adolescent boys’ science aspirations: Masculinity, capital and power

  Louise Archer;Jennifer DeWitt;Beatrice Willis

  274
  Citations

• Who Aspires to a Science Career? A comparison of survey responses from primary and secondary school students

  Jennifer Eileen Dewitt;Louise Archer

  257
  Citations

• Is Science for Us? Black Students' and Parents' Views of Science and Science Careers

  Louise Archer;Jennifer Eileen Dewitt;Jonathan Francis Osborne

  224
  Citations

• ASPIRES Report: Young people’s science and career aspirations, age 10 –14

  Louise Archer Ker;Jennifer DeWitt;Jonathan Francis Osborne;Justin Simon Dillon

  216
  Citations

• HIGH ASPIRATIONS BUT LOW PROGRESSION: THE SCIENCE ASPIRATIONS–CAREERS PARADOX AMONGST MINORITY ETHNIC STUDENTS

  Jennifer DeWitt;Louise Archer;Jonathan Osborne;Justin Dillon

  213
  Citations

• Dimensions of science capital: exploring its potential for understanding students’ science participation

  Jennifer DeWitt;Louise Archer;Ada Mau

  190
  Citations

• Science-related Aspirations Across the Primary–Secondary Divide: Evidence from two surveys in England

  Jennifer Eileen Dewitt;Louise Archer;Jonathan Francis Osborne

  178
  Citations

• Nerdy, Brainy and Normal: Children’s and Parents’ Constructions of Those Who Are Highly Engaged with Science

  Jennifer Eileen Dewitt;Louise Archer;Jonathan Francis Osborne

  151
  Citations

• The "Exceptional" Physics Girl: A Sociological Analysis of Multimethod Data From Young Women Aged 10-16 to Explore Gendered Patterns of Post-16 Participation

  Louise Archer;Julie Moote;Becky Francis;Jennifer DeWitt

  147
  Citations

• School trips and classroom lessons: An investigation into teacher–student talk in two settings

  Jennifer DeWitt;Jill Hohenstein

  118
  Citations

• The Construction of Physics as a Quintessentially Masculine Subject: Young People’s Perceptions of Gender Issues in Access to Physics

  Becky Francis;Louise Archer;Julie Katherine Moote;Jennifer DeWitt

  115
  Citations