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Dr Andy Biggart

BSc (Hons), PhD
Lecturer 

Room 02.008
18 College Green
School of Education
Queen’s University Belfast

Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 5946
Fax: 44 (0)28 9097 5066
Email: a.biggart@qub.ac.uk

Leadership Roles:
Deputy Director Centre for Effective Education 

Teaching:
EdD - Philosophical and Ethical Issues in Education and Social Research
MSc – Methods and Methodologies in Educational Research

Research/Scholarship

Research/Scholarship Interests:
Randomised Control Trial Evaluations; Educational Disadvantage; Transitions from Education to the Labour Market; Post-Compulsory Education and Training; Low Attainment; Early School Leaving and Comparative European Studies.

Research/Scholarship Projects:

  • Success for All Foundation Cluster Randomised Control Trial Evaluation. Education Endowment Fund (£60,000).
  • QUEST Cluster Radomised Contrial Evaluation. Education Endowment Fund (£13,000).
  • Team Alphie Randomised Control Trial Evaluation. Education Endowment Fund (£13,000).
  • Booktime (England) Impact Evaluation. Booktrust (£20,000).
  • Tallaght After-school programme longitudinal follow-up study. Tallaght West Child Development Initiative (£143,000).
  • Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe (GOETE). EU FP7 Programme (€2.7 Million).
  • Evaluation of the Doodle Den After-school Project. Tallaght West Child Development Initiative (£258,000).
  • Evaluation of the Mate Tricks  After-school Project. Tallaght West Child Development Initiative (£196,000).
  • A Baseline Study of the Needs of Black and Minority Ethnic Children in the Southern Area (2007/08). SHSSB: Children and Young People’s Committee (£68,021).
  • Up2youth: Young People as an Actor of Social Change (2006/09) EU Sixth Framework Programme. (€26,850). 
  • Thematic Study on Policy Measures Concerning Disadvantaged Youth (2005/06). European Commission Community Action Programme to Combat Social Exclusion.  DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (€12,000).

 

Publications:

  • Biggart, Andy; O'Hare, Liam; Connolly, Paul (2013 A need to belong?: The prevalence of experiences of belonging and exclusion in school among minority ethnic children living in the 'White hinterlands'. Irish Educational Studies, 04.02.2013, p. 1, DOI: 10.1080/03323315.2013.765264.
  • O'Hare, Liam; Kerr, Karen ; Biggart, Andy ; Connolly, Paul .(2012) Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Childhood Development Initiative's Mate-Tricks Pro-Social Behaviour After-School Programme. Dublin : Childhood Development Initiative 120 p.
  • Biggart, Andy ; Kerr, Karen ; O'Hare, Liam ; Connolly, Paul .(2012) Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative’s Doodle Den Literacy Programme. Dublin : Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative,. 106 p.
  • Biggart, A. (2009) Young People’s Subjective Orientations to Education. In Furlong, A. (Ed.) Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood: New perspectives and agendas. London: Routledge International Handbook series.
  • Biggart, A., Furlong, A. and Cartmel, F. (2009) Modern Youth Transitions: Choice Biographies and Transitional Linearity. In Bendit, R. and  Hahn,  M.  (Eds.): Youth and the Future: processes of social inclusion and patterns of vulnerability in a globalised world.Farmington Hills-USA: Leverkusen- Opladen & Barbara Budrich Publishers.
  • Bendit, R., Hein, K. And Biggart, A. (2009) Autonomie reatrdée et neégociée: l’émancipation résidentielle des jeunes Européens. Politiques Sociales et familiales. Vol. 97, pp5-13.
  • Biggart, A. (2008) National Youth Policy in the UK – Trends, Issues and Evaluation.
  • In, Ittel, A., Stecher, L., Merkens, H. and Zinnecker, J. (Ed‘s): Jahrbuch Jugendforschung. 7. Ausg. 2007. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2008), 436 S.
  • Biggart, A., Furlong, A. and Cartmel, F. (2008) Modern Youth Transitions: Choice Biographies and Transitional Linearity. In Bendit, R. and Hahn,  M.  (Eds.): Youth and the Future: processes of social inclusion and patterns of vulnerability in a globalised world. Farmington Hills-USA: Leverkusen- Opladen & Barbara Budrich.
  • Walther, A, Du Bois Reymond, M. and Biggart, A. (2006) Participation in Transition: The ambivalences of motivating young people for work in a European Perspective. Frankfurt: Peter Lang
  • Biggart, A. and Kovecheva, S. (2006) Social Change, Family Support and Young Adults in Europe. in Chisholm, L. & Du Bois-Reymond (Ed.) European Youth Research. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Walther, A., Pohl, A., Biggart, A. Julkunen, I., Kazepov, Y. and Kovacheva, S. (2005) Thematic Study on Policy Measures Concerning Disadvantaged Youth. Tuebingen: IRIS.
  • Furlong, A., Cartmel, F. Biggart, A. Sweeting, H. and West, P. (2003) Youth Transitions: Patterns of vulnerability and processes of social inclusion. Edinburgh: The Stationary Office.
  • Biggart A. (2002) Attainment, Gender and Minimum-aged School Leavers’ Early Routes in the Labour Market. Journal of Education and Work, Vol 15 No.2, pp145-162.