Welcome to my website

I'm a (part-time) Senior Professor in Politics and Education, in the School of Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University.

I also have a personal Jean Monnet Chair in Citizenship Education in Europe, and am a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK).

I  established and directed the Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) at London Metropolitan, from 2000 to 2009, and also established the Children's Identity and Citizenship in Europe Academic Network for the European Commission in 1998, and directed this till 2008.

I retired from full-time employment in the summer of 2009,

but still work part-time at the Univeristy, and have been researching how young people in Europe construct their political identities – locally, in their own state, as Europeans, and globally. I continue to be interested in researching and promoting policies for social justice and equity in education.

On this website you will find information on

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RESEARCH: the progress of my recent and current major projects:

1.  on how young people in Europe construct their political identities - with respect to their town, region, country/nation, Europe and beyond. This has covered 34 counties so far, 109 different places - see the map to the left -  and small group deliberative discussions with over 2000 young people between 11 and 19. This opened up new methodologies is understanding the construction of social/political ideas through group deliberation (2010 – 2019).
   
2. what political values do young people hold across Europe: an Jean Monnet Network project to establish young European’s understanding of European values Citizenship Education in the Context of European Values). A re-analysis  of the data, with a group of colleagues from across Europe, to determine which values they held, in a mixed methods approach. This demonstrated that the deliberative discussion materials, which generated unprompted discussions, could be quantitatively analysed, and used with qualitative materials to provide a detailed understanding of young people’s beliefs (2020-2024).
3.  an application of these mixed methods approaches to examine UK and Ireland young people’s political beliefs and understanding of their futures and of democratic life – understanding the 16-17 year old voice.  In its planning stages (2024 – 2027).

CV: the work I’ve been engaged in since the early 1970s

Where I’ve worked, what I’ve done, projects I’ve been engaged on, what I’ve taught, research degrees I’ve supervised and examined

RESOURCES: extracts from some of my publications and activities

A series of short extracts from various publications that people appear to find useful; and links to on-line copies of some publications.

PUBLICATIONS:  a fairly full list of what I’ve written and published over the years

A full(ish) list of books, articles, chapters, etc from 1972 to the present.

Do contact me ...

 - it may take time before I reply, but I will get back to you.

alistairrosslondon[at]gmail.com    or     a.ross[at]londonmet.ac.uk

          ORCID   000-001-5243-7704

Do contact me ...

 - it may take time before I reply, but I will get back to you.

alistairrosslondon[at]gmail.com    or     a.ross[at]londonmet.ac.uk

Recent and forthcoming publications (to be updated)

• Young Europeans’ construction of a Europe of human rights. 2020. London Review of Education, 18 (1) pp. 81-95. doi 10.18546/LRE.18.1.06
• Finding political identities: Young people in a changing Europe. 2019. Palgrave Macmillan. Pp xxv+366. doi 10.1007/978-3-319-90875-5
• Young Europeans constructions of nation, state, country and Europe. 2019. National Identities, 22, pp 1-7. doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2019.1694499
• Constructing Europe and the European Union via Education Contrasts and Congruence within and between Germany and England [with Eleanor Brown, Beatrice Szczepek Reed, Ian Davies and Géraldine Bengsch]. 2019. Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, 11 (2) 2, pp 1–29. doi: 10.3167/jemms.2019.1110201
• Young Europeans: A New Political Generation?. 2018. Societies, 8(70), pp 1-24. 70.  doi.org/10.3390/soc8030070

 In press: (edited book)

• Educational Research for Social Justice: Evidence and practice from the UK, Springer

       with chapters:

• What do educational science and the public good mean in the context of educational research for social justice?
• The construction of political identities: young Europeans’ deliberation on ‘the public good’
• The problem of the public good and the implications for researching educational policies for social justice