Gurpinder Singh Lalli

Reader in Education for Social Justice and Inclusion, University of Wolverhampton
Gurpinder is a Reader in Education for Social Justice and Inclusion in the School of Education. Trained as a sociologist and ethnographer, he has a track record on conducting research on the school meals service with a focus on inequity in education. He is the research hub lead for Education, Leadership and Social Justice. He is module lead for Critical Approaches to Diversity, Equality and Social Justice in Education (7ED002, MA Education). He has led doctoral students to completion and is currently supporting students as Director of Studies.

Gurpinder completed a PhD in Education at the University of Leicester following the award of a studentship. He authored the award-winning book titled, Schools, Food and Social Learning (Routledge, 2019), co-authored School Farms: Feeding and educating children (Routledge, 2021). He wrote his second monograph titled, Schools, Space and Culinary Capital (Routledge, 2022). He led an edited collection, titled Food Futures in Education and Society (Routledge, 2023) and currently co-leading an edited collection titled, 'The Social Nature of Food in India'.

Gurpinder is editor for Educational Research and Evaluation (ERE) and Book Series Editor for Sociological Perspectives on Food & Culture (Berghahn Publishing). He serves on a number of leading education and sociology editorial boards which include: British Journal of Sociology of Education, Cambridge Journal of Education, International Studies in Sociology of Education and British Journal of Educational Studies. He is a member of the Executive Committee for the Society for Educational Studies (SES, 2022-present). He is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki.

He is co-investigator on the first detailed historical and ethnographic study of the UK School Meals Service with a particular focus on the lived cross-generational experience of those receiving and preparing school meals. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council ESRC), the study is titled 'The School Meals Service - Past, Present and Future?' (Grant no: ES/X000737/1, 2023-2025) and awarded £1 million.