Dr Patrick Alexander is a social anthropologist specialising in the field of education. His current research focuses on schooling in the UK and the US, and on the themes of age and social identity, 'youth', aspiration and inequality. He is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies (Anthropology/Sociology) at Oxford Brookes University and Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Patrick has been selected to become the Fulbright-Peabody Research Scholar for the US-UK Fulbright Commission in 2014-2015. As part of this one year post, Patrick is conducting an in-depth, comparative study of aspiration, imagined futures and transitions into early adulthood among final year inner-city school students in New York and London. Patrick will be working alongside educationalists at New York University's Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. This promises to be a challenging and enriching programme of research that will shine a light on the complex realities of what it means to 'come of age' in the public/state education systems of these two cities.
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