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Gender as an interdisciplinary frontier

Gender as an interdisciplinary frontier. Why is gender an interdisciplinary frontier? What are the potential interdisciplinary questions? What challenges would need to be addressed for collaborative projects on gender across Bloomsbury Colleges to happen?.

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Gender as an interdisciplinary frontier

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  1. Gender as an interdisciplinary frontier

  2. Why is gender an interdisciplinary frontier? • What are the potential interdisciplinary questions? • What challenges would need to be addressed for collaborative projects on gender across Bloomsbury Colleges to happen?

  3. Gender as an (interdisciplinary) frontier? 1. Frontier = a line or border e.g. separating two countries Gender as anatomical sex; measurement of gender differences/parity 2. Frontier = the extreme limit of understanding or achievement in a particular area How to erode gendered norms, roles and institutional processes 3. Frontier = the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness Destabilising the category of gender and (hetero)sexuality

  4. The Good Schools Study Good Schools Toolkit X School Staff Violence Against Students Poor Mental Health Poor educational test scores • Aim: to evaluate the impact of the Good Schools Toolkit Intervention by Raising Voices • Design: Cluster randomised controlled trial, 42 primary schools, 3700 students aged ~11-14 and 500 staff • Primary and secondary outcomes • Children’s experience of physical violence from school staff • Children’s mental health • Children’s educational performance

  5. Baseline Results • Prevalence of physical violence from school staff • Associations between past week physical violence from school staff with low educational performance

  6. Gender as a link between agriculture and health

  7. Deborah Johnston ‘Framing the discussion’ – Introduction to LCIRAH workshop on ‘Limits to Gender Empowerment: Gender Perspectives on Agriculture and Health’, LICD, 7th March 2013

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