AARE Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Studies SIG

Program Explore the AARE2025 program and learn how to submit your abstract. Showcase your research and engage with national and international education scholars.

The full program for the 2025 AARE Conference is out now. Check out the fantastic Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Studies sessions we have scheduled! 🌈🎓 #AcademicSky

🦉Early Bird Registration ends in two weeks for the 2025 AARE Annual Conference in Newcastle
Theme: New connections and directions for educational research
The University of Newcastle 30 November to 4 December https://loom.ly/LWpVqe0

This event is coming up next Tuesday - see the registration link below.

Embracing Queer and Trans Frameworks in Qualitative Educational Research: Showing Our Work Embracing Queer and Trans Frameworks in Qualitative Educational Research reflects on a decade of conversations about research, thinking, and life, exploring how to navigate the ethical complexities of...

Sam will be discussing his new book authored with Dr LJ Slovin (University of Victoria), 'Embracing Queer and Trans Frameworks in Qualitative Educational Research: Showing Our Work'.

Online event: 'Embracing Queer and Trans Frameworks in Qualitative Educational Research: Showing Our Work', Dr Sam Stiegler (University of Melbourne) @samstiegler.bsky.social in conversation with Dr Barrie Shannon (UniSA) @barrieshannon.com 🌈🎓

⏰ Tue Sep 16, 4:00PM AEST, 6:00PM NZST, all welcome!

Trauma awareness: A new priority for higher education We want to understand how student trauma shows up in university spaces. And we also want to know how institutions might respond.

Many students bring complex trauma into their university experience. Sarah O’Shea and Maree Martinussen argue practical initiatives grounded within higher education realities are needed. https://loom.ly/fXHkDnA

The Australian Queer Archives are offering a brand new Research Fellowship - up to $5000 to assist with the expenses of a trip to AQuA to conduct a project on Australian queer history. Applications are due September 1. 🌈🎓

Details are here: queerarchives.org.au/posts/latest...

Why Segal’s plan to combat antisemitism in education is dangerous and should be rejected Alternative and superior approaches are available and necessary - these recognise racism may be experienced differently by different groups.

The federal government’s special envoy to combat antisemitism, has delivered a recipe for racial discord in schools and universities. Jane Kenway on behalf of Educational Researchers for Palestine explains how alternative and superior approaches are available and necessary. https://loom.ly/yQq_-uI

‘Do I have to go through all of that again?’ Class and rurality as barriers in the higher education pathways of queer students - The Australian Educational Researcher Though there is a significant, international body of literature on the experiences of queer university students, comparatively little is written about the higher education pathways of queer students, ...

Just published our first (open access!) paper from our research with LGBTQ+ young people who have used enabling programs to get into uni. We looked at how class and rurality combined with homophobia and transphobia to create uniquely complicated educational pathways for them 🌈🎓 #EduSky

Very happy to be supported in co-organising this special event on trans futures. And the registrations are going like hotcakes so please sign up!

New paper alert! Gr8 collaboration with Carioca partners to discuss how media represents sports and homosexuality - and the educational implications of this process journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (inbox if u want a full pdf) @aare-gscs.bsky.social @netflix.com @westernsydneyu.bsky.social

Registration Register to attend the AARE Conference 2025 in Newcastle. Early bird discounts, group rates and full registration details for in-person attendance.

Registration for the 2025 AARE Conference in Newcastle, Australia is now open! A discounted Early Bird Rate is available until October 2. 🌈🎓 #EduSky #AcademicSky aareconference.com.au/registration/

The cover of Embracing Queer and Trans Frameworks in Qualitative Educational Research: Showing Our Work by Sam Stiegler and LJ Slovin

Just ordered the new book out by @samstiegler.bsky.social and LJ Slovin: 'Embracing Queer and Trans Frameworks in Qualitative Educational Research: Showing Our Work'. Can't wait to get stuck into this one! 🌈🎓

www.routledge.com/Embracing-Qu...

Our new book employs a conceptual historiographic methodology to unveil complex socio-historical relationships in the making of school curricula @springernature.com @springer.springernature.com @stewartriddle.com @westernsydneyu.bsky.social @ecer-eera.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Anti-Discrimination Act review The Attorney General has asked the Law Reform Commission to review the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW).

The NSW Law Reform Commission is inviting submissions in their ongoing review of the Anti-Discrimination Act. This may be of interest to members who are subject experts on inclusion and diversity in education, especially concerning sex, gender and sexuality. lawreform.nsw.gov.au/current-proj...

Fundamental Concepts and Critical Developments in Sex Education: Intersectional and Trauma-Informed Approaches This comprehensive resource equips emerging and experienced sexuality educators with contemporary frameworks for trauma-informed, equitable, and anti-oppressive education. It provides foundational principles for development and delivery, emphasizing inclusivity, accessibility, and intersectionality. Editors Malone, Gilbert, Dukes, and Fonte curate chapters by leading voices on topics such as historical perspectives, values, emotional intelligence, professional humility, reproductive justice, neu

New #book chapter by TASA member Kim Andreassen et al.

Breaking barriers: Sex education promoting quality of life for people with physical disability.

www.routledge.com/Fundamental-...

Call for Papers The Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference 2023 will be held from Sunday 26 November until Thursday 30 November 2023.

The CFP for this year's AARE Conference in Newcastle closes in just under two weeks on June 26. We would love to bring together as many gender, sexualities and cultural studies education scholars as we can, so please consider coming along. #EduSky 🌈🎓 aareconference.com.au/callforpapers/

Going Along as a Methodological Framework: Queering Research with Youth Join the ESAI G&S SIG for part two of our methodological possibilities event series with the esteemed Dr Sam Stieglar (Uni of Melbourne)

ESAI SIG presents a methodological workshop with Dr Sam Stiegler (Unimelb) - 'Going Along as a Methodological Framework: Queering Research with Youth'

⌚Wednesday 21st May 7PM AEST, 6:30 ACST, 5PM AWST

Registration and more details in the link below. 🌈🎓

Introduction to special section: the political life of education online | Naomi Barnes Just published online! A special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online" edited by myself, Keith Heggart and Dr Sheena MacRae. https://l...

I have recently been one of the editors led by @drnomyn.bsky.social with Keith Heggart of a special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online". Naomi has written a great post here about the project and the other papers 1/7

Interested in presenting an unfinished idea at the
australianare.bsky.social conference? Then join our workshop (online or in person) on Thursday, May 22nd, 2025, from 4-6pm (AEST)! See poster for more details and registration link here: events.humanitix.com/aareworkshop2

Emotional experiences of teaching: Toxic positivity and cruel wellbeing Both in Australia and globally there is a turn towards a more critical and nuanced appraisal of the emotional experiences of teachers

Teachers struggle under the weight of unrealistic expectations and mounting responsibilities of modern teaching. Saul Karnovsky and Nick Kelly argue that now more than ever education research can provide a roadmap for the profession to reconstitute what is of value. loom.ly/a-ZU5tY

This has significant consequences for sex education and inclusive education. Rhetoric like this combined with a lack of specific teacher training and vague "controversial issues" policies primes teachers to see LGBTQ+ wellbeing as a risky 'political' issue. 🌈🎓

The Adolescence alarm: ‘If there’s a problem with boys’ behaviour, it’s because of us’ Millions have been gripped by a story of toxic masculinity in children that’s been called a ‘wake-up call’. But is it a moral panic, and how should we respond?

More on 'Adolescence', featuring commentary by University of Adelaide's Sam Schultz and @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social at Monash www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Opinion | Tate-Pilled Boys Are a Problem for Schools What ‘Adolescence’ gets right about the harassment of female authority figures.

'Tate-pilled boys are a problem for schools' -- @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social and @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social in the New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

The Australian Educational Researcher | Volume 52, issue 2 Volume 52, issue 2 articles listing for The Australian Educational Researcher

AARE is pleased to announce that the latest edition of the Australian Educational Researcher is now available loom.ly/qObseOk

The paper in question 😉

Welcoming applications for a Professoriate position in Higher Education Pedagogy

Upcoming volume with contributions by some of our SIG members!

What happens when the manosphere goes to university There must be intellectual resistance to polarisation but women and minority academics are mostly carrying this work on gender alone.

University education should provide strong intellectual resistance to the polarised beliefs currently being amplified by digital worlds. Yet, as Sam Schulz and Sarah McDonald explain, women and minority academics are increasingly carrying this work alone. blog.aare.edu.au/what-happens...

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