Mr Paul Wakeling
PhD Student

Tel: 0161 275 7025
Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 4722
Email: Paul.Wakeling@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

 	Room  G45
	CCSR
	School of Social Sciences
	Kantorovich Building
	Humanities Bridgeford Street
	University of Manchester
	MANCHESTER
	M13 9PL
	

I am an ESRC-funded research student jointly supervised in Sociology (Professor Fiona Devine) and CCSR (Dr. Mark Tranmer). My doctoral research is concerned with access to postgraduate study and social class using quantitative methods and secondary analysis of Higher Education Statistics Agency data.

Prior to commencing my PhD in September 2005 I completed the MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics in CCSR. Before returning to study I was employed in university administration for ten years, working in academic planning and project management at the University of York and before that in undergraduate admissions at York St. John College.

Education

BA (Hons) Sociology, University of Liverpool, 1995
MA in Education (by research), University of York, 2003. Thesis title: Social Class and Progression to Postgraduate Study in England
MSc Social Research Methods and Statistics, University of Manchester, 2005.

Publications

Wakeling, P. B. J. (2005) La noblesse détat anglaise? Social class and progression to postgraduate study. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26, 4, pp. 505 522.

Wakeling, P. B. J. (2004) Dont have aspirations above your station this is a PhD course. Research Fortnight, no. 210, 24 March 2004.

Wakeling, P. B. J. (2003) The Academic Caste. The Guardian, 2 September 2003.

Wakeling, P. B. J. (2003) Social class still counts after students reach 21. The Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 August 2003.

Wakeling, P. B. J. (2003) Postgraduates and Social Class: Taking the Access Debate to the Next Level. UK Council for Graduate Education Newsletter, no. 42, April 2003.

Conferences and Invited Talks

Wakeling, P. B. J. (2006) Widening Participation in Postgraduate Study. National Postgraduate Committee Annual Conference. Aston University, Birmingham, 3 August 2006.

Wakeling, P. B. J. and J. Johnson (2006) Ethnicity and postgraduate study in Sociology, Anthropology and Politics. Teaching Race in Higher Education Social Sciences. London, 28 June 2006.

Wakeling, P. B. J. and J. Johnson (2006) In a glass house throwing stones? A look at the ethnic background of postgraduate students in sociology British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Harrogate International Centre, 21 - 23 April 2006.

Wakeling, P. B. J. (2006) Widening Participation in Postgraduate Study. Fourth Annual Postgraduate Conference: Maintaining Quality and Growth. Barbican Centre, London, 4 April 2006.

Johnson, J. and Wakeling, P. B. J. (2006) 'Ethnicity and postgraduate study in Politics: A Look at the Evidence.' Political Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Reading, 4 - 6 April 2006.

Wakeling, P. B. J. and J. Johnson (2005) Ethnicity and postgraduate study in sociology, anthropology and politics. C-SAP Conference, Birmingham, 24 November 2005.

Johnson, J. and P. B. J. Wakeling (2005) Postgraduate study in politics. Political Studies Association Graduate Network Central and Northern England Conference, Northampton, 19 November 2005.

Wakeling, P. B. J. and J. Johnson (2005) Ethnicity and postgraduate study in sociology, anthropology and politics a look at the evidence. CCSR Seminar, 8 November 2005.

Wakeling, P. B. J. (2005) Social Class and Postgraduate Study: What Do We Know? Paper given at the University of York Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, 25 May 2005.

Wakeling, P. B. J. (2003) Research into widening participation in postgraduate education . National Postgraduate Committee annual conference, University College Worcester, 14 August 2003.

Funded Projects

June 2005 April 2006, Postgraduate study in sociology, anthropology and politics what is the effect of ethnicity? £1,960. Funded by the Higher Education Academy Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (with Jerry Johnson, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester).

Professional Affiliations

British Sociological Association
Society for Research into Higher Education

American Sociological Association

Research Interests

Social class and stratification
Access to higher education and social class, gender and ethnicity
Sociology of higher education, especially in the UK, USA and France
Social mobility
Sociology of education
Quantitative sociology
Sociology of celebrity
History of sociology