Peter Stevens
Supervisor
Department of Sociology
Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Peter A. J. Stevens (BA, MA Ghent University, MA, PhD Warwick University) is Professor in Qualitative Research Methods at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium). Stevens’ research interests cover the areas of sociology of education and race/ethnic relations. His work has been published in leading journals in the field of education, race and ethnic relations and sociology, including Review of Educational Research, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Sociology of Education. He is editor with Gary Dworkin of The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education (Palgrave, 2019) and editor of Qualitative Data Analysis. Key Approaches (Sage, 2023). Stevens is currently supervising research on ethnic in-out group relationships in school settings.
Email: Peter.Stevens@UGent.be
Phone: +32 9 264 97 78
Research themes:
Discrimination, racism and prejudice || Education and training || Identity
Recent publications
Integration of palliative care into phase I oncology trials : a qualitative interview study with patients, informal caregivers, and healthcare providers
Frederick Daenen
UGent, Anne van Driessche
UGent, Anne-Lore Scherrens
UGent, Annelies Janssens, Sylvie Rottey
UGent, Lore Decoster, Peter Stevens
UGent, Koen Pardon
UGent, Aline De Vleminck
UGent and Kim Beernaert
UGent
(2026)
PLOS ONE.
21(5).
Exploring the role of students’ ethnic-minority and socio-economic status in entering open-admissions higher education
Jente De Coninck
UGent, Peter Stevens
UGent and Wendelien Vantieghem
UGent
(2026)
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION.
p.1-22
Invisible threads : how ethnic-minority students weave belonging in higher education
Jente De Coninck
UGent, Peter Stevens
UGent and Wendelien Vantieghem
UGent
(2026)
STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION.
51(5).
p.1086-1103