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Intersectionality: Theory and Methodology in Educational Research (face-to-face) In-Person
Dr Victoria Showunmi | One three-hour session + one seven-hour session + one three-hour session | 13:00 - 16:00 Monday 8 June (Room 784 in the IOE) + 10:00 - 17:00 Tuesday 9 June (Room 675 in the IOE) + 13:00 - 16:00 Wednesday 10 June (Room 784 in the IOE)
NB: this course accrues 2 training points.
Please note: the registration system will show this course as an 'all day event' but it will run as detailed above.
Also: due to the interactive nature of this course, if we have low registration it may be cancelled.
This course will benefit students who are at any stage of the doctoral journey.
The course will start with an introduction moving into a more in-depth understanding of intersectionality and how it applies to methodology. The course is interactive and does require a doing a pre-course task and reading.
The course is designed for developing researchers exploring the theoretical frameworks about ‘intersectional’ thinking and approaches. The course will review the development of intersectionality from a Black Feminist Sociology perspective including the notion of ‘post-intersectionality’, as well as modernist/structural and post-constructivist versions of intersectionality. We will also explore theories of power, cultural competence, identity, and subjectivity. In addition, we will examine qualitative methodology as it relates to intersectionality in the research paradigm.
Participants’ will be encouraged to share extracts from their work in order to explore ways in which a broadly intersectional framework can assist with thinking and conducting research. There will be time for in depth exploration of dimensions of intersectionality including; age, race and racialisation, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, sexualisation, social class, disability and ability.
The overall aim is to provide an interactive session that enables the participants to work through a range of planned activities whilst engaging in intersectional thinking. The course will require students to draw on intersectional frameworks to analyze educational research as well as to develop a stronger research agenda.
Reading can be found on the course description page.
- Dates & Times:
- All Day, Monday, June 8, 2026
All Day, Tuesday, June 9, 2026
All Day, Wednesday, June 10, 2026
- Time Zone:
- UK, Ireland, Lisbon Time (change)