Dr Clara Jørgensen

Dr Clara Jørgensen

School of Education
Associate Professor

Contact details

Address
School of Education
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Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Clara R. Jørgensen is an Associate Professor within the Department of Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs. She is a social anthropologist of background and has done qualitative and ethnographic research in a range of educational settings including in the UK, Spain and Latin America, where she has explored educational inequalities, school policies and practices, inclusive teaching strategies, and children and young people’s schooling experiences and friendships. She also has extensive experience of involving service users, carers and young people in research and has facilitated training for involvement in a range of contexts. Before joining the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Clara worked as Lecturer of Childhood, Youth and Education at Coventry University and Senior Teaching Fellow/Research Fellow at the University of Warwick.

Her areas of interest and expertise are: Childhood and Youth, Race and Ethnicity, Migration and Education, Inclusive Education, User-involvement and Co-creation of Knowledge, Participation, and Comparative research. 

Qualifications

BA Social Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

MA Social Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

PhD in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Jørgensen, C & Wyness, M 2021, . Anthem Press. <>

Article

Dobson, G & Jørgensen, C 2024, '', Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs.

Jørgensen, C, Perry, T & Lea, R 2023, '', British Journal of Educational Studies, pp. 1-20.

Jørgensen, CR & Allan, J 2022, '', International Journal of Inclusive Education.

Jørgensen, C & Allan, J 2021, '', Forum: for promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 29-38.

Allan, J & Jørgensen, C 2021, '', Children's Geographies, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 419-431.

Jørgensen, CR & Perry, T 2021, '', British Educational Research Journal, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 1139-1157.

Jørgensen, CR & Allan, J 2020, '', British Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 507-522.

Dobson, G, Jørgensen, C & Perry, T 2020, '', NASEN Connect, no. 23, pp. 28-30. <>

Jørgensen, C, Perry, T & Dobson, G 2020, '', The Education Exchange. <>

Jørgensen, C, Dobson, G & Perry, T 2020, '', European Journal of Special Needs Education.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Jørgensen, CR & Allan, J 2022, . in C Kulz, K Morrin & R McGinity (eds), Inside the English Education Lab: Critical Qualitative and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Academies Experiment. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 89-108.

Allan, J & Jørgensen, C 2020, . in A Köpfer, J Powell & R Zahnd (eds), Handbook Inclusion International: Global, National and Local Perspectives on Inclusion Education. Verlag Barbara Budrich.

Chapter

Jørgensen, C & Dobson, G 2023, . in G Niolaki, K Carr-Fanning & A Terzopoulos (eds), Psychology and Educational Inclusion: Identifying and Supporting Learners with SEN. 1st edn, McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, pp. 47-60. <>

Other report

Jørgensen, C, Dobson, G & Perry, T 2021, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. </documents/college-social-sciences/education/publications/migrant-children.pdf>