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Executive members
Gaby Weiner, Chair
Gaby Weiner currently holds a number of honorary professorial positions and also retains a professorial link with Umeå University in Sweden where she was professor of teacher education between 1998 and 2005. She has written and edited a number of publications on social justice, gender, race and ethnicity including: Feminisms in Education (1994)); Closing the Gender Gap: Postwar Educational and Social Change (1999, with M. Arnot & M. David), and Kids in Cyberspace: (2005, with C. Gaine).
Alexandra (Sandy) Allan, Regional Representatives
Sandy is a lecturer in Education and Childhood and Youth Studies in the Graduate School of Education, Exeter University. Her wider research interests include: gender and education, social class, sexualities, academic achievement, childhood and youth, single-sex and elite education. She has published work on these themes in a number of outlets, including the journals Discourse, Gender and Education, Sex Education and International Studies in the Sociology of Education. Sandy is a co-convenor of the BERA Sexualities Sig and organised GEA’s 2011 conference.
Fin Cullen, Newsletter
Fin is based at the Centre for Youth Work Studies, School of Sport & Education, Brunel University. She has worked in youth and community settings across the UK for over 13 years, and remains involved in front line youth work practice in a London borough. Her research interests include; girls’ friendship cultures, drugs and sex education, youth work, PSHE, sexual and social geographies. Currently, Fin is on the editorial board for the journal Gender and Education and is co-convenor of the BERA Sexualities SIG.
Miriam David, Policy Officer
Miriam was, until recently, Associate Director (Higher Education) of the ESRC’s Teaching & Learning Research Programme (2004-2009) based at Institute of Education, London. A professor for over 20 years, Miriam has a world class reputation for her research on gender, families, social diversity and inequalities in education, including lifelong learning and higher education.
Gabrielle is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Her areas of interest are: cognition, emotion and culture; schooling, knowledge and pedagogy and gender and education. She is a social and developmental psychologist who researches children and young people’s relationships to education inside and outside primary secondary schools. She has been particularly vocal around the imagined crisis in boys’ achievement in school exams claiming that this moral panic has drawn attention away from the historical legacies of gender and narrowed the debate to an overly simplified issue of biology that is helping neither boys nor girls to face futures in complex societies.
Carolyn is senior lecturer, and currently Head of Department, in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University. She has published widely on aspects of gender and education, including on single-sex and co-educational environments, educational transitions, and the construction of ‘lad’ and ‘ladette’ identities. Her most recent books are Lads and Ladettes in School: Gender and a Fear of Failure (Open University Press, 2006), and a collection co-edited with Carrie Paechter and Emma Renold entitled Girls and Education 3-16: Continuing Concerns, New Agendas (Open University Press, 2010).
Claire is a Researcher at the Institute of Education, University of London. She is particularly interested in young women and how they approach and experience various parts of their lives – from school, to friendships, to family, to sexual and intimate relationships – to think further about whether and how girls and young women might be agentic. Currently, Claire’s focus is on young women from the middle classes, and examining how privilege might be reproducing or even potentially challenging certain gender and social class norms. Claire
has also been involved for a number of years now in researching and evaluating initiatives within schools that aim to promote gender equality and challenge violence against women and girls.
Rosamund McNeil, Practitioners
Rosamund is the National Union of Teacher’s gender equality policy officer. The NUT is a trade union and professional association with a membership of approximately 300,000 qualified teacher members. Rosamund provides guidance and advice to members and local NUT branches and runs conferences and events for NUT teacher members about gender and education research, policy and practice. Rosamund is invited to speak at a wide range of conference and events within the Gender and Education sector and is a member of several DCSF Advisory Group Panels.
Heather Mendick, Conferences
Heather Mendick works at Brunel University. She is particularly interested in people’s learning from popular culture (as an avid film, TV and internet fan) and in how they form relationships with mathematics (as an ex-maths teacher). She is the author of Masculinities in Mathematics, the editor of Mathematical Relationships in Education (with Laura Black and Yvette Solomon) and co-author of Urban Youth and Schooling (with Louise Archer and Sumi Hollingworth).
Emma Rawdon, Secretary and Website
Emma is in the third year of her PhD at Lancaster University. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, her research explores how children’s constructions of girl and boy in the classroom are informed by ideas of what it is to be appropriately masculine and feminine in their out of school contexts.
Emma is Reader in Childhood Studies at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales. She is the author of Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities (2005, Routledge) and co-editor (with Carolyn Jackson and Carrie Paechter) of Girls and Education 3-16: Continuing Concerns, New Agendas (Open University Press, 2010). She is also co-editor of the international journal Gender and Education (with Debbie Epstein and Mary Jane Kehily). Working at the intersection of queer and feminist poststructuralist theory she has published widely on the gendering and sexualisation of children and childhood across diverse institutional sites and spaces.
Jessica Ringrose, Regional Representatives
Jessica is a senior lecturer in Sociology of Gender and Education at the Institute of Education, London. Her current research explores young people’s gendered and sexualised digital cultures and cyberbullying. She has written extensively on neo-liberal and postfeminist discourses of femininity in a range of journals and books. Her new book: Postfeminist Education? Girls and the Sexual Politics of Schooling (Routledge) will be out in 2011. She has done a range of consultancy work on issues of gendered and sexualised violence in schools, including acting as an adviser on the recent Home Office ‘Sexualisation of young people review’ (2010), and currently on the Coalition Government Equalities Office ‘Campaign for Body Confidence’.
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