Barbara Read

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.

I am especially interested in:

• gender and educational cultures
• the construction and 'performance' of gendered identities (in particular students, young people, teachers and academics)
• identities and intersectionality
• gender, friendship and 'popularity'
• gender, class and 'race' in relation to academic achievement
• widening participation, inequalities and academic cultures
• students’ experiences and perceptions of HE
• the ‘social world’ of the university
• social inequalities and social justice
• gender, language and communication
• classroom observation, visual and textual analysis