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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Louise Archer is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the social sciences, with an emphasis on education. Their work spans several subfields including education, sociology and political science, safety research, human factors and ergonomics, and political science and international relations.

Their research focuses on various topics related to education and societal dynamics. These include:

  • Career Development and Diversity
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Innovative Education and Learning Practices
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Higher Education Practises and Engagement

Louise Archer has published in several academic venues frequently, with the following venues among the most common:

  • Science Education
  • British Journal of Sociology of Education
  • Journal of Research in Science Teaching
  • Research Papers in Education
  • Journal of the Learning Sciences

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "Science capital or STEM capital? Exploring relationships between science capital and technology, engineering, and maths aspirations and attitudes among young people aged 17/18" (2020, Journal of Research in Science Teaching)
  • "Learning that physics is 'not for me': Pedagogic work and the cultivation of habitus among advanced level physics students" (2020, Journal of the Learning Sciences)
  • "The impact of tracking by attainment on pupil self-confidence over time: demonstrating the accumulative impact of self-fulfilling prophecy" (2020, British Journal of Sociology of Education)
  • "Interested but not being served: mapping young people's participation in informal STEM education through an equity lens" (2021, Research Papers in Education)
  • "Disruptive moments as opportunities towards justice-oriented pedagogical practice in Informal Science Learning" (2021, Science Education)

Collaborations have been a notable aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Spela Godec
  • Julie Moote
  • Jennifer DeWitt
  • Emily MacLeod
  • Angela Calabrese Barton

Louise Archer has also contributed to book publications, with a recorded title published by Springer International Publishing:

  • Science Identities (2022)

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Higher Education and Social Class: Issues of Exclusion and Inclusion

    Louise Archer;Merryn Hutchings;Alistair Ross

  • "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

  • Higher education and social class

    Louise Archer

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

    Louise Archer;Jennifer DeWitt;Jonathan Osborne;Justin Dillon

  • “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

  • Challenging Cultures? Student Conceptions of 'Belonging' and 'Isolation' at a Post-1992 University

    Barbara Read;Louise Archer;Carole Leathwood

  • The new neoliberal subjects? Young/er academics’ constructions of professional identity

    Louise Archer

  • 'Bettering Yourself'? Discourses of risk, cost and benefit in ethnically diverse, young working-class non-participants' constructions of higher education

    Louise Archer;Merryn Hutchings

  • Younger academics’ constructions of ‘authenticity’, ‘success’ and professional identity

    Louise Archer

  • Understanding Minority Ethnic Achievement: Race, Gender, Class and 'Success'

    Louise Archer;Becky Francis

  • Race, Masculinity And Schooling: Muslim Boys and Education

    Louise Archer

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

    Louise Archer;Jennifer DeWitt;Jonathan Osborne;Justin Dillon

  • Diversity, equality and higher education: a critical reflection on the ab/uses of equity discourse within widening participation

    Louise Archer

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

    Jennifer Dewitt;Jonathan Osborne;Louise Archer;Justin Dillon

  • 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

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

    Louise Archer;Jennifer DeWitt;Jonathan Osborne;Justin Dillon

  • ‘Muslim Brothers, Black Lads, Traditional Asians’: British Muslim Young Men’s Constructions of Race, Religion and Masculinity

    Louise Archer

  • 'Knowing their limits'? Identities, inequalities and inner city school leavers' post-16 aspirations

    Louise Archer;Hiromi Yamashita

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

    Louise Archer;Jennifer DeWitt;Beatrice Willis

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

    Jennifer Eileen Dewitt;Louise Archer

  • ''ScienceCapital'':AConceptual,Methodological,andEmpiricalArgument forExtendingBourdieusianNotionsofCapitalBeyondtheArts

    Louise Archer;Emily Dawson;Jennifer DeWitt;Amy Seakins

Frequent Co-Authors

Becky Francis
Becky Francis University College London
Jonathan Osborne
Jonathan Osborne Stanford University
Justin Dillon
Justin Dillon University of Exeter
Angela Calabrese Barton
Angela Calabrese Barton Michigan State University
Gill Crozier
Gill Crozier University of Roehampton

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