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Michaela worked on a wide range of national and international studies on vocational education and training (VET) funded by bodies such as the Nuffield Foundation and the EU Erasmus+ programme. She completed research on on-the-job training and apprenticeships in England, funded by the Gatsby Foundation, that informs the UK government's reform of technical education. Michaela’s work encompasses several cross-national ethnographies examining the construction of young people's learner identities in various educational contexts. This includes a British Academy study on learner identities among young people in high-quality engineering apprenticeships in England and Germany, linking her work with areas involving retail assistants and motor mechanics. The research interests in the field of sociology of education cover youth transitions, learner identities, and interactions involving class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. She employs interdisciplinary approaches to understand youth transitions and learner identities while emphasizing social inequality in education. Michaela actively welcomes PhD applicants in her areas of research expertise.
University of Southampton • Southampton, England
Lecturer specializing in sociology education with a focus on vocational education and training.