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Biography
Dr Francesca Salvi joined the University of Nottingham in September 2023 as an Assistant Professor in Education. She teaches on MA and BA Education courses and is available for doctoral supervision. Previously, Francesca was a Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the University of Portsmouth, where she led the MRes Humanities and Social Sciences. Francesca holds a PhD (International Education) from the University of Sussex and an MPhil (Development Studies) from the University of Oxford.
Expertise Summary
Francesca is an interdisciplinary social scientist. Her work focuses on transitions between childhood and adulthood in sub-Saharan Africa and South-east Asia. In sub-Saharan Africa, she considered how global discourses of teenage pregnancy and parenthood are constructed in opposition to education and employment imperatives. Through collaboration with Indonesian colleagues, she is interested in how different geo-cultural settings can develop approaches to Environmental Education that are place-based and child-led. Her aim in doing so is to pursue quality education that contributes to creating sustainable lifestyles.
Teaching Summary
I am Course Leader for the BA Education, where I have particular responsibility for research methods training and dissertation supervision. In this role, I support students in developing the skills… read more
Research Summary
Francesca is currently working on the following projects:
2024-26 British Academy ISPF ODA Challenge-Oriented Research Grants [IOCRG\100388] 'Empowering the future: Children voices and actions on Climate Change Education in Mozambique' PI
2024-25 AHRC DCMS Cultural Heritage and Climate Change [APP42467] 'Mobilising Cultural Heritage towards Environmental Education: A Focus on Indonesia' PI
2023-26: British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants Scheme [SRG2223\230010] 'Towards Caring Fathers: The Role of Young Fathers' Mothers in Enabling Alternative Masculinities in South Africa' PI
Francesca welcomes enquiries about doctoral supervision in the following areas:
Children and young people in the Global South; transitions to adulthood; pregnancy and parenthood and their intersections with education and work; gender; identity; agency; sexual and reproductive health; global and glocal citizenship; sustainability and climate change, children's agency and participation.
I am Course Leader for the BA Education, where I have particular responsibility for research methods training and dissertation supervision. In this role, I support students in developing the skills needed to design and carry out independent research projects, with a strong focus on methodological rigour, critical analysis, and ethical practice.
Past Research
2023-24: British Council Going Global Partnership 'Environmental Capacity Building for ECEC Preservice Teachers in Indonesia and the UK' (PI)
2018-19: Newton Mobility Fund [NMG2R2\100077] 10K to carry out a pilot study on young fatherhood and masculinity in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Co-Investigator)
2010-14: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRCS) full studentship [grant number ES/H015086/1] to complete doctoral work on in-school pregnancy policy in Mozambique.