Dr Laura Mazzoli Smith's Outputs (2)

The impact agenda and critical social research in education: hitting the target but missing the spot? (2017)
Journal Article
Laing, K., Mazzoli Smith, L., & Todd, L. (2017). The impact agenda and critical social research in education: hitting the target but missing the spot?. Policy Futures in Education, 16(2), 169-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478210317742214

This paper considers whether the impact agenda that has developed over the last decade in UK universities is likely to help create the conditions in which critical educational research makes a more visible difference to society. The UK audit of unive... Read More about The impact agenda and critical social research in education: hitting the target but missing the spot?.

Students’ views on fairness in education: the importance of relational justice and stakes fairness (2017)
Journal Article
Mazzoli Smith, L., Todd, L., & Laing, K. (2017). Students’ views on fairness in education: the importance of relational justice and stakes fairness. Research Papers in Education, 33(3), 336-353. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2017.1302500

This paper discusses a research project which sought to find out about young people’s views on fairness in education in English schools. Fairness is an everyday term, which in policy hides multiple and contradictory positions across the political div... Read More about Students’ views on fairness in education: the importance of relational justice and stakes fairness.