A one-day seminar

19^th April, 10.30am-3.30pm

Run by the Education, Identities and Social Inclusion Research Group, Brunel University Continue Reading

November 11th 2011 saw an exciting joint symposium between the Youth studies and Sexualities BERA SIG at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Continue Reading

Confirmed keynotes for GEA’s interim conference, ‘Gender and Democracy: Gender Research in Times of Change’ include:

- Fatmagül Berktay, Professor of Political Science, Istanbul University

- Lynn Davies, Professor of International Education, University of Birmingham

- Elisabet Öhrn, Professor of Education, University of Gothenburg

11 – 13 April, University of Gothenburg

Conference theme: ‘Gender and Democracy: Gender Research in Times of Change’

Instructions for submission can be found on the conference website.

Submission deadline: 1 November 2011

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Thursday 27^th October 2011

Lancaster University

4.30-6pm followed by a drinks reception

Sponsored by GEA and the Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University Continue Reading

Davina’s paper looked at the Toronto Women and Trans Bath House, a venue for sex between women who were often strangers, as an example of an ‘everyday utopia’. The notion of how to institutionalise social change lay behind the argument, but Davina was more focussed on alternatives to an institutionalised ethics which has become embedded in the ‘fetishisation of a colonised future’. Continue Reading

Carol’s keynote opened the conference by taking stock of girls and women’s position in education for “without the past we can’t understand the present”. She began by troubling the idea of progress for in the history of girls education, things do not only get better. Continue Reading

Becky Francis’ keynote took on the task of exploring the current place of gender in the education system. She reflected on our current place as researchers in gender and education, on the theoretical challenges of our work and on our relationship to practice. Continue Reading

27th April, 5.30 – 6.30pm (Venue: NC12)  Continue Reading