barbararead35

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Dr

Barbara

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United Kingdom of Great Britain (UK)

Area of expertise, interest, main activities...: 

academic cultures, gender equality in STEM

About you (please use English): 

I am a sociologist of education, with an interdisciplinary background in history, social anthropology, and women's studies. I am currently Reader in Gender and Social Inequalities at the School of Education, University of Glasgow. My main research interests are:
gender and educational cultures (in both compulsory and post-compulsory settings), and children's and adults' peer group/friendship cultures at school and university. One aspect of my research interests is gender and students' subject choice and participation, particularly at HE, and particularly in relation to girls/women's participation in STEM. I am especially interested in the ways cultural conceptions of 'ideal' masculinity and femininity influence children's peer group hierarchies, cliques, and notions of who is un/popular amongst their peers - and how this may influence student subject choice and participation in particular disciplines.

Scientific discipline: 

Social sciences

Contact details

Spoken languages: 

English, British

City: 

Glasgow

Street: 

11 Eldon Street

ZIP: 

G3 6NH

Phone: 

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Social networks: 

http://www.genderportal.eu/%40barbararead35

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Would you like to form part of the GenPORT Gender Expert database?: 

Yes

Area of Gender Expertise: 

Gender in education

Gender in social sciences

Social topics (Women's and gender studies)

Women and gender studies

Country coverage: 

UK

Skills and track record: 

I am a sociologist with over 20 years' postdoctoral research experience in the field of gender and education, and have published widely in relation to gender and achievement, success and wellbeing in both compulsory and post-compulsory education, with a focus on staff and academic cultures as well as student engagement and success.