About
Dr. Elizer Jay de los Reyes is a Lecturer and interim Programme Director of the MSc Education in the Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton. 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 COVID-19 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 Southampton 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
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 COVID-19 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 COVID-19 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.
Research projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
Jay teaches the following modules at Southampton Education School:
MSC
-Education and Society
-Social Context of Education and Lifelong Learning
-Applying Educational Research (Army)
BSc Education
-Social Justice and Inclusive Education
-Digital Society
Jay has also previously taught modules on social justice, diversity, inclusion, and global perspectives at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education of The University of Melbourne, Australia (2018-2019); and race, new media, representation, mobility, and qualitative research at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2021-2022).
Biography
Before joining the University as a Lecturer in August 2022, Jay was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore where he worked at the Cultural Research Centre. He was also a tutor at The University of Melbourne. Jay has 8 years of experience as a secondary school teacher in the Philippines before pursuing postgraduate studies in the United States and Australia. Jay holds a PhD in sociology of education and comparative and cross-cultural education from The University of Melbourne; and master’s degrees in education policy and social and development studies from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of the Philippines respectively.