Elizer Jay De Los Reyes

Research interests

youth

mobilities

transnational families

Accepting applications from PhD students.

About

Dr. Elizer Jay de los Reyes is a Lecturer and interim Programme Director of the MSc Education in the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Education School at the University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载. Jay’s scholarship examines the impact of mobilities of labour and risks on learners and educators around the world. He investigates how rural women’s emigration from northern Philippines shape their left-behind children’s aspirations and attitudes towards schooling. Jay also studies the impact of the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 pandemic on the resilience of historically underrepresented higher education academics especially those at the early stages of their careers.

Dr de los Reyes has acheived a Fellow (FHEA) status from AdvanceHE. At BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Education School, Jay is involved in the teaching of modules such as Digital Society and Social Justice and Inclusive Education in the undergraduate programmes. He is involved in Applying Educational Research, and Social Contexts of Education modules for the postgraduate programmes of the School.

Research

Research groups

Member of:

Centre for Research in Inclusion

Research interests

youth
mobilities
transnational families
futures and aspirations
resilience

Current research

Jay is the Principal Investigator of the Research England International Science Partnersip Fund (ODA) project 'Narrating Intergenerational Voices' that examines left-behind children's inclusion in decision-making processes of mother-away families in the Philippines. In this project, he investigates how children's voices are heard in deciding about migration and education projects of left-behind families by Filipinas working as domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore, and nursing professionals in the United Kingdom and Australia. He is also a team member for the 'School Voices: A Research-Practice Partnership' project led by Professor Kiki Messiou. This project explores innovative approaches of student voice and dialogues to promote inclusion in schools and improve learning outcomes.

He was previously the Principal Investigator of the Universitas-21 funded transnational collaborative project ‘Resilience Beyond Borders: Im/Mobilities of Underrepresented Academics During the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Pandemic’ (2021-2022). Previously, he was a Co-Investigator for the project ‘Academic Resilience: Stories We Tell’ (2020-2021) that studied the strategies used by academics to cope with the challenges that emerged at the onset of the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 pandemic in 2020. In these projects, Jay works with early, mid, and advanced-career academics from The University of Hong Kong, The University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland, University of California Davis, Monash University, and University of New England. Jay co-hosts The Resilient Academic Podcast with Dr. Marian Mahat, Dr. Jo Blannin, and Prof. Caroline Cohrssen.