PhD students

Dr Philly Iglehart

PhD student - Identifying educationally isolated schools: The creation and use of a multidimensional index of Educational Isolation

01752 636700

ricketts.p@pgr.marjon.ac.uk

Role Summary

Philly is interested in social justice in education, schools serving disadvantaged communities, and policymaking. Her PhD builds on the novel concept of Educational Isolation to explore how challenges of ‘place’ (geographical remoteness, socio-economic deprivation, cultural isolation) combine to impact on school improvement opportunities. The creation of a robust, reliable, quantitative tool aims to enable identification of educationally isolated schools in order for resources to be targeted appropriately to support school improvement, for use by schools, policymakers, Ofsted, wider educational organisations and researchers. It will also be employed comparatively to investigate potential relationships between Educational Isolation and school performance measures, using a broad definition of school performance.

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Qualifications

PGCE Secondary English, University of Plymouth
PhD History, University of Liverpool
MA Medieval Studies, University of Reading
BA History/Russian, Duke University, NC, USA

Teaching

Christianity, Kingdoms and Crusaders: Themes in European History c. 800-1400

Historical Controversies: Richard III (historical research methods)

Research

Identifying educationally isolated schools: The creation and use of a multidimensional index of Educational Isolation

Start date: October 2020
Supervisors: Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Dr Rowena Passy, Professor Ian Luke

My previous research interests include medieval marriage, specifically the demographics of marriage and extra-marital relations in Iceland in the later Commonwealth period; women’s property, power, patronage and identity; and the position of the heiress in Anglo-Norman and Angevin England.

Publications

Books:

High-ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire: Property, Power, Marriage and Identity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, The Northern World 49 (Leiden: Brill, 2010). [published under the name Philadelphia Ricketts]

Articles:

Ovenden-Hope, T., Passy, R., and Iglehart, P, ‘Educational Isolation and the challenge of ‘place’ for quality in teacher supply’ in The Palgrave Handbook for Teacher Education Research (Palgrave, forthcoming).

‘Power, protection and pleasure: The marital and extra-marital relationships of the women in Sturla Þórðarson’s life’, in Sturla Þórðarson: Skald, Chieftain, Lawman, ed. Jón Vidar Sigurðsson and Sverrir Jakobsson, The Northern World 78 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 31-43. [published under the name Philadelphia Ricketts]

‘“Spoiling them rotten?”: Grandmothers and familial identity in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland’, in Youth and Age in the Medieval North’, ed. Shannon Lewis-Simpson, The Northern World 42 (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 167-204. [published under the name Philadelphia Ricketts]

‘Widows, religious patronage and family identity: Some cases from twelfth-century Yorkshire’, Haskins Society Journal 14 (2003): 117-36. [published under the name Philadelphia Ricketts]

Other Interests

Among her diverse interests, Philly enjoys reading (and writing) Young Adult fiction and urges you to check out Frances Hardinge’s novels for the sheer poetry of the language.