Past event
Join us for an online event hosted by the Sexualities and Gender Special Interest Group of the British Education Research Association.
Calling all educators, researchers, and advocates interested in critically exploring how gender and sexuality comes to matter in educational settings.
This event begins with an introduction to the Sexualities and Gender SIG from co-convenors, Kate Marston and Kayden Schumacher. Following this, the rest of the session will include a series of 5 or 10 minute lightening presentations from SIG and non-SIG members of whom you could be one! We invite you to offer your perspective on being and becoming a gender and sexualities educator, researcher and advocate in this increasingly contested and politicised terrain.
We are eager to showcase affirmative, uplifting and imaginative gender and sexualities research, build community and create a space to explore the complexities of this work and the context-specific barriers researchers face.
Draft programme:
05:00pm Welcome and Introduction; Kayden Schumacher, Kate Martson
05:10pm Challenging gender inequities through education
Making Sense of Masculinity; Carolina Hinojosa & Jack McGeehan
Gender Inequality and Aspirations of Migrant Girls on the Outskirts of
Beijing;Linyao Wang
05:35pm Participatory methodologies in gender and sexuality research
Participatory research praxis with students and educators on sexting policy
and practice in an international school in the Netherlands; Jodie McGoldrick
Protectionism, positivism and politics in institutional ethics: Exploring the
ethical challenges of doing research on gender diversity in education; Lois
Ferguson
06:00pm Gender and Educational Policy
Who’s Afraid of Legal Gender Recognition in the UK?; Luan Carpes Barros
Cassal
06:25pm LGBTQ+ educators and researchers in Higher Education
Teaching Transgender Studies Amidst the Pervasive Disinformation
Landscape; Chloe Turner
Is all publicity good publicity? Addressing Public Harassment in LGBT+
Research; Tig Slater
06:50pm Summary and future planning; Kayden Schumacher, Kate Martson
07:00pm Close of Event
Lecturer at Cardiff University
I am a Lecturer in Education with a particular interest in young people's gender and sexual cultures, digital relationships and creative, visual and arts-based methods. My teaching and research is driven by a passion for creating social change...
PhD Scholar at Coventry University
Kayden Schumacher is a PhD scholar at Coventry University. He is currently completing his PhD at Coventry University in ‘Global Learning: Gender, Equality and Diversity’. His research focuses on trans* and gender diverse students’...
Lecturer in Psychology at University College Birmingham
I am a Lecturer in Psychology at University College Birmingham, focused on psychology applied to education and development, and a Honorary Research Fellow in Education at University of Manchester. In my PhD in Education at University of...
Senior Research Associate at University of East Anglia
Lois is an early career researcher interested in exploring how gender diversity emerges in education, sport and youth contexts. Her doctoral research engaged with gender diverse young people and PE teachers in England to explore how gender...
PhD candidate and sessional teaching fellow at University of Portsmouth
Jodie McGoldrick is a PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth, specialising in participatory research methods to explore how Relationships and Sex Education can be developed in Initial Teacher Training. She is particularly interested in how...
Project Coordinator at Salford Foundation
Jack is a Project Coordinator for the Salford Foundation’s ‘Steps’ program, which focuses on preventing gender-based violence (GBV). Prior to this he helped coordinate the ‘Boys to Men’ project, which explored boys’ perceptions of...
Project Coordinator at Salford Foundation
Carolina is a Project Coordinator for the Salford Foundation’s ‘Steps’ program which focuses on preventing gender-based violence (GBV). Her areas of interest relate to the development of curriculums and programmes for adolescents that...
Lecturer at University of Reading
Dr. Linyao Wang is a Lecturer in Education at the Institute of Education, University of Reading. Her research focuses on social mobility, educational inequalities, access to education, and the educational aspirations of young people, with a...
PhD Researcher and Lecturer at Research Centre
Chloe Turner is a writer and researcher currently completing a PhD with the Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths University of London on transgender disinformation. Turner has held Visiting Research Fellowships at the Institute for Social and...
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