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Gender and Education

The relationship between education and issues of gender is a major interest and focus of the Institute’s activities. Gender research and analysis covers aspects of in/equality, attainment, staffing, career development, gender roles, and relationships with society and families. IPSE has a substantial and growing record of research and analysis in all of these areas, and our findings contribute to policy development across a range of educational institutions. The Institute has widely-acknowledged expertise across a broad range of topics associated with gender and education policy, based our commitment to ensuring social justice and inclusion for all.

Research Interests and Expertise

• Gender and achievement
• Masculinity/boys
• Femininity/girls
• Gender across educational sectors (early years, primary, secondary, FE, HE)
• Gender, family and schooling/education
• Feminist theory
• Gender, race/ethnicity and class
• Feminist methods
• Gender, equal opportunities and educational policy
• Gender and science issues
  
  

Research Projects

• Mathematical Images and Identities: Education, entertainment, social justice
• Scientific Women's Academic Network and the SWAN charter for women in science
• Investigating gender as a factor in primary pupil-teacher relations and perceptions
• Women teachers' careers and promotion
• Girls' attitudes and success in science education
• Gender equality in work experience placements for young people
• Pupils learning preferences in girls' schools
• Gender equality intervention in the primary school: a systematic review
• Lecturers' constructions of undergraduate writing: a gender analysis
• Teaching Bangladeshi Girls: Progressing to Science, Engineering and Technology (SET)
• The impact of the depiction of work in TV drama on young people's career aspirations & choices
• Mathematical Images and Gender Identities

Publications

• All IPSE publications related to this theme

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