2025

• Cheung, K. L., Thomas, M., Wong, B., Hills, L., Froome, H., Worsfold, N., & Bailey, D. P. (2025). Exploring student consensus about module-level ethnicity awarding gaps: A Delphi approach. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 49(1), 31-44 https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2024.2428722

• Wong, B., & Fletcher, L. (Forthcoming, 2025). Assessing the impact of a university transition online course on student continuation using statistical matching methods. Evaluation Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841X251339686

2024

• Grønhøj, E.O., Wong, B., & Bundsgaard, J. (2024) Exploring Young People’s Perceptions and Discourses of Technology Occupations through Descriptive Drawings and a Questionnaire. Computer Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2024.2385876

• Hamer, J.M.M., Kemp, P.E.J., Wong, B., & Copsey-Blake, M. (2024). Cracking the code: exploring student attitudes towards coding in secondary education. Cambridge Journal of Education, 54(4), 495-516. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2024.2387335 

• Wong, B., Hamer, J.M.M., Copsey-Blake, M., & Kemp, P.E.J. (2024). Is being clever enough? Young people’s construction of the ideal student in computer science education. Educational Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2024.2379430 

• Wong, B., Kemp, P.E.J., Hamer, J.M.M., & Copsey-Blake, M (2024). Only Ada?: Dominance of entrepreneurial white men as the famous figures in computing and technology for young people. Oxford Review of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2024.2432639

• Wong, B. (2024). Exploring the Spatial Belonging of Students in Higher Education. Studies in Higher Education, 49(3), 546-558 https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2023.2243285 

2023

• Hamer, J.M.M., Kemp, P.E.J., Wong, B., & Copsey-Blake, M. (2023). Who wants to be a computer scientist? The computing aspirations of students in English secondary schools. International Journal of Science Education, 45(12), 990-1007 https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2023.2179379

• Murray, O.M., Chiu, Y.L.T., Wong, B., & Horsburgh, J. (2023). Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome: Imposter Work Amongst Marginalised STEMM Undergraduates in the UK. Sociology, 57(4), 749-766 https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221117380

• Wong, B., Chiu, Y.L.T., Murray, O.M., Horsburgh, J., & Copsey-Blake, M. (2023). Biology is easy, physics is hard’: Student perceptions of the ideal and the typical student across STEM higher education. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 32(1), 118-139 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2022.2122532

• Wong, B., & Copsey-Blake. M. (2023). Pragmatic, persistent and precarious: The pathways of three minority ethnic women in STEM higher education. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 21(7), 2123–2142 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10763-022-10337-8

• Wong, B., DeWitt, J., & Chiu, Y.L.T. (2023). Mapping the eight dimensions of the ideal student in higher education. Educational Review, 75(2), 153-171 https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1909538

2022

• ElMorally, R., Wong, B., & Copsey-Blake, M. (2022). Is science, technology, engineering and mathematics in higher education sexist and racist? All surface, no substance. Equity in Education & Society, 1(2), 216-236 https://doi.org/10.1177%2F27526461221105591

• Hoskins, K. & Wong, B. (2022). Re/configuring Possible Selves and Broadening Future Horizons: The Experiences of Working-Class British Asian Women Navigating Higher Education. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 24(1), 114-138  https://doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.24.1.114

• Wong, B., Chiu, Y.L.T., Copsey-Blake, M., & Nikolopoulou, M. (2022). A mapping of graduate attributes: what can we expect from UK university students? Higher Education Research & Development, 41(4), 1340-1355  https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2021.1882405

• Wong, B., Chiu, Y.L.T., Murray, O.M., & Horsburgh, J. (2022). End of the road? The career intentions of underrepresented STEM students in higher education. International Journal of STEM Education, 9(51), 1-12 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-022-00366-8

• Wong, B., Copsey-Blake, M., & ElMorally, R. (2022). Silent or silenced? Minority ethnic students and the battle against racism.  Cambridge Journal of Education, 52(5), 651-666 https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2022.2047889

• Wong, B., & Hoskins, K. (2022). Ready, set, work? Career preparations of final-year non-traditional university students. Higher Education Pedagogies, 7(1), 88-106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2022.2100446

2021

• Chiu, Y.L.T., Wong, B., & Charalambous, M. (2021). ‘It’s for others to judge’: What influences students’ construction of the ideal student? Journal of Further and Higher Education, 45(10), 1424-1437 https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2021.1945553

• Wong, B. & Chiu, Y.L.T. (2021). Exploring the concept of ‘ideal’ university student. Studies in Higher Education, 46(2), 497-508 https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1643302

• Wong, B., ElMorally, R., Copsey-Blake, M. (2021). ‘Fair and square’: What do students think about the ethnicity degree awarding gap? Journal of Further and Higher Education, 45(8), 1147-1167 https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2021.1932773

• Wong, B., ElMorally, R., Copsey-Blake, M., Highwood, E., & Singarayer, J. (2021). Is race still relevant? Student perceptions and experiences of racism in higher education. Cambridge Journal of Education, 51(3), 359-375 https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2020.1831441

2020

• Wong, B. & Chiu, Y.L.T. (2020). University lecturers’ construction of the ‘ideal’ undergraduate student. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 40(1), 54-68 https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2018.1504010

2019

• Kemp, P.E.J., Wong, B., & Berry, M.G. (2019). Female performance and participation in computer science – a national picture. ACM Transactions on Computing Education. 20(1), 1-28 https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3366016

• Du, X. & Wong, B. (2019). Science Career Aspiration and Science Capital in China and UK: A comparative study using PISA data. International Journal of Science Education, 41(15), 2136-2155 https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2019.1662135

• Wong, B. & Chiu, Y.L.T. (2019). ‘Swallow your pride and fear’: The Educational Strategies of High-Achieving Non-Traditional University Students. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(7), 868-882 https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1604209

• Wong, B. & Chiu, Y.L.T. (2019). Let me entertain you: The ambivalent role of university lecturers as educators and performers. Educational Review, 71(2), 218-233 https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2017.1363718

2018

• Wong, B. (2018). By Chance or by Plan?: The Academic Success of Nontraditional Students in Higher Education. AERA Open, 4(2), 1-14 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858418782195

• Wong, B. & Kemp, P.E.J. (2018). Technical boys and creative girls: The career aspirations of digitally-competent youths. Cambridge Journal of Education, 48(3), 301-316 https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2017.1325443

2017

• Wong, B. (2017). ‘I’m good, but not that good’: Digitally-skilled youth’s identity in computing. Computer Science Education, 26(4), 299-317 https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2017.1292604

2016

• Archer, L., Dawson, E., Seakins, A. & Wong, B. (2016). Disorientating, fun or meaningful? Disadvantaged families’ experiences of a science museum visit. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 11(4), 917-939 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11422-015-9667-7

• Wong, B. (2016). Minority ethnic students and science participation: A qualitative mapping of achievement, aspiration, interest and capital. Research in Science Education, 46(1), 113-127 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-015-9466-x

2015

• Archer, L., Dawson, E., DeWitt, J., Seakins, A. & Wong, B. (2015). ‘Science capital’: a conceptual and empirical argument for extending Bourdieusian notions of capital beyond the arts. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 52(7), 922–948 https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21227 [Open Access]

• Falk, J., Dierking, L., Wenger, M., Osborne, J., Dawson, E. & Wong, B. (2015). Analyzing science education in the U.K.: Taking a system-wide approach. Science Education, 99(1), 145–173 https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21140

• Wong, B. (2015). A blessing with a curse: Model minority ethnic students and the construction of educational success in England. Oxford Review of Education, 41(6), 730–746 https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2015.1117970

• Wong, B. (2015). Careers ‘from’ but not ‘in’ science: Why aspirations to be a scientist are challenging for minority ethnic students? Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 52(7), 979–1002 https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21231

2014

• Archer. L., DeWitt, J. & Wong, B. (2014). Spheres of Influence: What shapes young people’s aspirations at age 12/13 and what are the implications for education policy? Journal of Education Policy, 29(1), 58-85 https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2013.790079

2013

• Archer, L., DeWitt, J., Osborne, J., Dillon, J., Willis, B. & Wong, B. (2013). Not girly, not sexy, not glamorous’: primary school girls’ and parents’ constructions of science aspirations. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 21(1), 171–194 https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2012.748676

• DeWitt, J., Osborne, J., Archer, L., Dillon, J., Willis, B. & Wong, B. (2013). Young Children’s Aspirations in Science: The Unequivocal, the Uncertain and the Unthinkable. International Journal of Science Education, 35(6), 1037–1063 https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2011.608197

2012

• Archer. L., DeWitt, J., Osborne, J., Dillon, J., Willis, B. & Wong, B. (2012). ‘Balancing Acts’: Elementary school girls’ negotiations of femininity, achievement and science. Science Education, 96(6). 967–998 https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21031

• Archer, L., DeWitt, J., Osborne, J., Dillon, J., Willis, B. & Wong, B. (2012). Science Aspirations and family habitus: How families shape children’s engagement and identification with science. American Education Research Journal, 49(5), 881-908 https://doi.org/10.3102%2F0002831211433290

• Wong, B. (2012). Identifying with science: A case study of two 13 year-old British Asian ‘high achieving working class’ schoolgirls. International Journal of Science Education, 34(1), 43–65 https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2010.551671

2011

• DeWitt, J., Archer, L., Osborne, J., Dillon, J., Willis, B. & Wong, B. (2011). High Aspirations but Low Progression: The science aspirations-careers paradox among minority ethnic students. International Journal for Science and Mathematics Education, 9(2), 243–271 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10763-010-9245-0

2010

• Archer, L., DeWitt, J., Osborne, J., Dillon, J., Willis, B. & Wong, B. (2010). “Doing” science versus “being” a scientist: Examining 10/11-year-old schoolchildren’s constructions of science through the lens of identity. Science Education, 94(4), 617–639 https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.20399

• Kemp, P. E. J., Wong, B., Hamer, J. M. M., & Copsey-Blake, M. (2024). The future of computing education: Considerations for policy, curriculum and practice. King’s College London and University of Reading. Download here.

• Hoskins, K., Wong, B., Mckenzie, A., Xu, Y., Cheng, M., & Read, B. (2024). Educational research in the global north and south; reflections on the field and future directions (Editorial). British Educational Research Journal. http://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3978 

• Wong, B., Haine, M., Mabale De Burgos, M., Henderson, A-M., & Copsey-Blake, M. (2022). Promoting an inclusive culture at the University of Reading: A case-study. Advance HE. More details here.

• Wong, B., Copsey-Blake, M., & ElMorally, R. (2021). The Student Experiences in STEM report: Minority ethnic students in higher education. Reading: University of Reading. Download here

• Kawas, L., & Wong, B. (2019). Race, ethnicity and diversity: The challenges and opportunities for lecturers in STEM. Reading: University of Reading. Download here

• Wong, B. (2018). Youth Engagement Initiative (YETI) – The potentials of the IOP subscription service for young people aged 16-19. Reading: University of Reading (Internal report to Institute of Physics)

• Wong, B., Copsey-Blake, M, & Walters, T. (2018). An evaluation of the MiniPolice project in Reading: Primary schoolchildren’s views and aspirations in the police. Reading: University of Reading. Download here

• Kemp, P.E.J., Berry, M. & Wong, B. (2018). The Roehampton computing education report: Data from 2017. London: University of Roehampton. Download here

• Kemp, P.E.J., Wong, B. & Berry, M. (2016). The Roehampton computing education report: Data from 2015. London: University of Roehampton.

• Archer, L., Osborne, J., DeWitt, J., Dillon, J., Willis, B. & Wong, B. (2013) ASPIRES: young people’s science and career aspirations, age 10-14. London: King’s College London. Download here

• Francis, B. & Wong, B. (2013) What is preventing social mobility? A review of the evidence. Leicester: Association of School and College Leaders.  Download here

• Falk, J., Osborne, J., Dierking, L., Dawson, E., Wenger, M. & Wong, B. (2012) Analysing the UK Science Education Community: The Contribution of Informal Providers. London, Wellcome Trust. Download here