Peter White
Programme Support Tutor
My profile
Biography
I am a Programme Support Tutor in the Department of Nursing with a research interest in educational inequalities. I work with the Nursing Support team to improve the student experience, boost progression and retention in the Nursing Department.
Academic and professional qualifications
I am currently working on a PhD on How has the withdrawal of the NHS bursary impacted enrolment of students with widening participation characteristics into nursing education in the UK?
Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Manchester Metropolitan University
MSc Education (Research Methodology and Design), University of Oxford
BSc (Hons) Sociology, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Languages
Japanese
Japanese Language Proficiency Test- Level 5
Prizes and awards
Awarded the Green Templeton College, Barclay Scholarship 2015/2016, which was awarded on academic excellence, contribution to college life and financial need
Teaching
Guest Lecture: ’Contextualising Health Inequalities’ lecture in the Public Health Policy & Practice unit on the Health and Care Practice (Nursing Associate) Programme (level 5)
Guest Lecture: ’What Evidence Means to Me’ lecture in the Health Enquiry & Evaluation unit on the BSc Adult & Mental Health Nursing Programme (level 4)
Research outputs
I have a particular interest in
- Inequality
- Widening particiaption
- Social mobility
- Access to higher education
- Regional inequalities
- Mixed methods research
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Journal articles
White, P. (2023) 'Editorial: Fixing the nursing crisis: It’s time to acknowledge and address the decline of mature Nursing students.' Nurse Education in Practice, pp. 103733-103733.
Snee, H., White, P., Cox, N. (2021) ''Creating a modern nursing workforce’: nursing education reform in the neoliberal social imaginary.' British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42(2) pp. 229-244.
White, P., Lee, D. (2019) 'Geographic inequalities and access to higher education: Is the proximity to higher education institution associated with the probability of attendance in England?.' Research in Higher Education, 61(7) pp. 825-848.
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Other
White, P. (2019) England needs to close the north-south divide in higher education too.
White, P. (2016) Geographic and socio-economic inequalities and access to higher education: is the proximity of higher education institutions associated with the probability of university attendance for young people in England?.