Dr Harriet Rowley

Senior Lecturer

My profile

Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in Education and Community. I teach on the BA in Education Studies and I will be course coordinator for the BA in Religion, Education and Community.

My area of expertise is the relationship between schools and communities, in particular how schools seek to meet the needs of families classed as vulnerable or disadvantaged. Theoretically, I use socially critical perspectives and I have a keen interest in policy studies. Methodologically, I mainly use ethnographic, longitudinal approaches and have expertise in case studies, carrying out interviews with families and young people.

Presently, I am Co-PI for an Evaluation of Stockport Social Care Innovation Programme, subcontracted by TNS BRMB through funding secured from DfE. Using a theory of change approach, we will be tracking the reorganisation of Health and Social Care across Stockport over a two-year period. Intellectually, we are seeking to understand organisational change at a time of rapid reform in public services and, in particular, the adoption of restorative approaches and their impact upon vulnerable families.

I am also part of the team for an EU Horizon 2020 project, ‘PARTISPACE’ investigating the styles and spaces of how young people participate in their communities and in society across eight countries. I will mainly be contributing to WP4, compiling local case study data of how 15-30 year-olds engage with the public in formal, non-formal and informal youth-based settings.

Previously, I worked on an Evaluation of School Direct, a new employment-based Initial Teacher Training route. The project consisted of over one hundred interviews with university-based teacher educators, mentors and trainee teachers across twenty institutions and twelve schools. I also worked on a National College project, developing capability and capacity in Evidence-Based Teaching across twenty Teaching School Alliances.

I was awarded my PhD in 2013 from the The University of Manchester. During this time I also gained experience of working as a Research Assistant at the National Union of Students and the Institute of Public Policy Research. Prior to this, I was a secondary school teacher, ChildLine counsellor and youth worker.

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0161 247 2350
1.43 Brooks Building

Research outputs

  • Evaluation of Stockport Social Care Innovation Programme. Manchester Metropolitan Univerisity, Department for Education, TNS BRMB.Dr Harriet Rowley & Dr James Duggan (Co-PI) (2015 – 2017)
  • PARTISPACE EU Horizon 2020. Manchester Metropolitan University.Prof Janet Batsleer (PI), Dr Alexandre Pais and Dr Harriet Rowley (2015 – 2017)
  • Evidence-Based Teaching Project. Manchester Metropolitan University, NCTL. Prof Cathy Lewis, Dr Linda Hammersley-Fletcher (Co-PI) Dr Harriet Rowley, Caroline Davies & Elaine Spink (2014 – 2016)
  • School Direct Research Project. Manchester Metropolitan University, RKE Grant. Prof Tony Brown (PI), Dr Harriet Rowley and Kim Smith (2013 – 2015)
  • Development & Research Partnership between University of Manchester and New Charter Housing Trust/New Charter Academy.Prof Alan Dyson, Prof Mel West, Prof Daniel Muijs, Prof Christopher Chapman & Dr Harriet Rowley (2009 – 2013)
  • Developing Inclusive Education through student voice at a Special School for Tibetan Refugees in India and North Ridge Special School, Manchester. Dr Harriet Rowley & Sarah Butson (2008 – 2009)

  • Books (authored/edited/special issues)

    Batsleer, J., Rowley, H., Lüküslü, D. (2022) Young People, Radical Democracy and Community Development.

    McMahon, G., Rowley, H., Batsleer, J. (2022) Reshaping Youth Participation: Manchester in a European Gaze.

  • Chapters in books

    Batsleer, J., Rowley, H., Lüküslü, D. (2022) 'Introduction: Young people, radical democracy and community development.' Young People, Radical Democracy and Community Development. pp. 3-22.

    Batsleer, J., Rowley, H., Lüküslü, D. (2022) 'Afterword: Community as prefigurative practice - practices of hope.' Young People, Radical Democracy and Community Development. pp. 225-232.

    Pais, A. (2022) 'Being a socialist in Manchester (a Manchester case).' In McMahon, G., Rowley, H., Batsleer, J. (ed.) Reshaping Youth Participation: Manchester in a European Gaze. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 83-97.

    Ryan-Atkin, H., Rowley, H. (2022) 'When the MAT moves in: implications for legitimacy in terms of governance and local agency.' Inside the English Education Lab: Critical Qualitative and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Academies Experiment. pp. 60-86.

    Rowley, H., Charles, C. (2022) 'Who Was Lost and Who Was Found? (A Manchester Case).' Reshaping Youth Participation: Manchester in a European Gaze. pp. 127-142.

    Rowley, H., Batsleer, J., McMahon, G. (2022) 'Introduction to ‘Manchester in a European Gaze’.' Reshaping Youth Participation: Manchester in a European Gaze. pp. 1-14.

    McMahon, G., Rowley, H., Batsleer, J., Morrison, E. (2022) '(Not a) Conclusion.' Reshaping Youth Participation: Manchester in a European Gaze. pp. 215-243.

    Rowley, H., Becevic, Z., Osmanoglu, B., Popivanov, B. (2019) 'Examining styles of youth participation in institutionalised settings as accumulation of capital forms.' Young People and the Struggle for Participation. Contested Practices, Power and Pedagogies in public Spaces edited by Andreas Walther, Janet Batsleer, Patricia Loncle and Axel Polh. Routledge,

    Rowley, H. (2019) 'Lost and Found. Ethnographic Researcher and Arts Practitioners getting lost and coming home.' Learning, Arts and Ethnography. Ethnography and Education.. Tufnell Press,

    Rowley, H.E.K. (2014) 'Navigating Research Partnerships as a Critical Secretary.' In Gunter, H.M., Hall, D., Mills, C. (ed.) Education Policy Research: Design and Practice at a time of rapid reform. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 43-53.

    Rowley, H.E.K., Rowley, H., Butson, S. (2010) 'Promoting student voice in an isolated community in India.' In Miles, S., Ainscow, M. (ed.) Responding to diversity in schools: An Inquiry-based approach.

  • Reports

    Rowley, H. (2018) Leap of Faith. Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

    Rowley, H. (2018) Partispace_Thematic_Report_Styles_of_Participation: Young People's Participation as Lived Practice.

    Panayiotou, S., Chisholm, T., Duggan, J., Rowley, H., Dennis, J. (2017) Stockport Family Evaluation Research Report. Department of Education.

    Brown, T., Rowley, H., Smith, K. (2015) The beginnings of school led teacher training: New challenges for university teacher education.. Manchester Metropolitan University.

  • Journal articles

    Rowley, H., Ivinson, G., Duggan, J., Pahl, K. (2022) 'Editorial: Critically exploring co-production.' Qualitative Research Journal, 22(1) pp. 1-6.

    Roy, A., Kennelly, J., Rowley, H., Larkins, C. (2020) 'A critical discussion of the use of film in participatory research projects with homeless young people: an analysis based on case examples from England and Canada.' Qualitative Research, 21(6) pp. 957-974.

    Brown, T., Rowley, H., Smith, K. (2016) 'Sliding subject positions: Knowledge and teacher educators.' British Educational Research Journal, 42(3) pp. 492-507.

    Brown, T., Rowley, H., Smith, K. (2014) 'Rethinking Research in Teacher Education.' British Journal of Educational Studies, 62

    Rowley, H. (2014) 'Going beyond procedure: Engaging with the ethical complexities of being an embedded researcher.' Management in Education, 28(1) pp. 19-24.

  • Theses and dissertations

    Rowley, H.E.K. (2013) A case study of community-oriented school.