GEA – Gender and Education Association

Toby Greany and Melanie Ehren.

The schools white paper brings together recent announcements from the budget and thefunding consultation as well as the provisions in the Education and Adoption Act to set out the next phase of school reform. The strategy is undoubtedly ambitious – in particular the aim to make all schools into academies by […]

*this is a guest post written by Sara Adkisson and originally posted on the UCL IOE blog 

Following Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement that the European Union referendum will take place on June 23, there is now a clear possibility of an outcome that culminates in British exit from the EU. Voices from across British politics and public […]

The Gender and Education Association is an international charitable organisation seeking to support the development of, and networking opportunities for, those working in the higher education sector as researchers, writers and practitioners concerned with issues of gender and education.  We seek to:

Produce, promote and disseminate feminist and other critical scholarship on gender and education.
Raise awareness […]

GEA are thrilled to have Lucy Rycroft-Smith write this exclusive post on sexism in education for our site.
Lucy Rycroft-Smith is a freelance writer and ex-teacher of ten years. She writes for the Guardian, the TES and various other publications on education, parenting and feminism. She blogs at www.introvertedteacher.co.uk and tweets at @honeypisquared

The children listen intently for […]

 
Author; William Locke. 
The growing pressures faced by universities have had an impact on academic careers. Changes to academic roles, contracts and career paths, along with increasing workloads, have created new challenges. Yet in today’s competitive global environment, academic career opportunities are key to universities’ future success.
A report for the Higher Education Academy (HEA) by Celia Whitchurch, […]

Compulsory Coupledom, Postfeminist Education and Imagined Futures

 
Dr. Kinneret Lahad, Tel-Aviv University
Respondent: Prof. Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde
 
Thursday 4th February 4pm & 6pm H229 Lord Hope Building, University of Strathclyde
See: http://www.strath.ac.uk/maps/
 
Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/compulsory-coupledom-postfeminist-education-and-imagined-futures-tickets-20011496926
Abstract: A prevalent proverb addressed to children in many societies is the consolation, “By your wedding day you will feel better.” This reassuring and comforting […]

Sheffield University recently held a conference on feminist research methodologies – two members of GEA presented papers and the keynote was delivered by GEA chair, Professor Jessica Ringrose so the association was well represented. With that in mind, we have chosen to reblog this informative piece written by Rachel Handforth, a PhD student at Sheffield and […]

This post was written by Chris Husbands and first appeared on the IOE blog; https://ioelondonblog.wordpress.com on the 28/10/15

How much is too much? It’s a question we tend to ask when in the proximity of strawberry crèmes, or gin and tonics. One is fine, two could be great, but carry on and it all goes horribly wrong.   On Saturday […]