STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Emily Gray
Emily hails from Walsall, UK and is a lecturer in Education Studies at RMIT’s School of Education.
Her interests within both research and teaching are interdisciplinary and include sociology, cultural studies and education. She is particularly interested in questions of gender and sexuality and with how understandings these identity categories are lived by individuals and experienced within social institutions. Her key research interests therefore lie with questions related to gender, social justice, student and teacher identity work within educational policy and practice and with wider social justice issues within educational discourse and practice. She is also concerned with popular culture, public pedagogies and audience studies, particularly with online ’fandom’ and with media and popular culture as pedagogical tools.
- Course coordinator Imagining Social Futures, Grad. Dip. (Secondary)
- Course coordinator Education Theory and Practice, B.Ed (Primary)
- Course coordinator Understanding Diversity and Difference, B.Ed (Primary)
- PhD Educational Research, 2010, Lancaster University, UK.
- MA Social Research Methods (Cultural Studies & Sociology), 2005, University of Birmingham, UK.
- BA (Hons.) Sociology, 2002, University of Birmingham, UK.
- Gray, E.,Ullman, J.,Blaise, M.,Pollitt, J. (2024). Masculinism, institutional violence and #MeToo: understanding Australian University responses to the COVID-19 pandemic In: Journal of Educational A United Kingdom dministration and History, , 1 - 17
- Gray, E.,Ullman, J.,Blaise, M.,Pollitt, J. (2023). ‘I'm broken but I'm alive’: gender, COVID-19 and higher education in Australia In: Higher Education Research & Development, 42, 588 - 602
- Pollitt, J.,Gray, E.,Blaise, M.,Ullman, J.,Fishwick, E. (2023). Performing feminist research: creative tactics for communicating COVID-19, gender, and higher education research In: Gender and Education, 35, 487 - 504
- Gray, E.,Pollitt, J.,Blaise, M. (2022). Between activism and academia: zine-making as a feminist response to COVID-19 In: Gender and Education, 34, 887 - 905
- Pollitt, J.,Blaise, M.,Gray, E. (2022). Enacting a feminist pause: interrupting patriarchal productivity in higher education In: Creative Approaches to Health Education, Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom
- Anwar, J.,Kelly, P.,Gray, E. (2022). Girls’ education in Balochistan, Pakistan: exploring a postcolonial Islamic governmentality In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 43, 433 - 450
- Gray, E.,Ullman, J. (2022). Gender Equity in Melbourne's Select Entry High School (SEHS) System In: Department of Education and Training, Victoria and Industry Partners, Portable and Huddle Sydney, Australia
- Gray, E.,Reimers, E.,Bengtsson, J. (2021). The boy in a dress: A spectre for our times In: Sexualities, 24, 176 - 190
- Fricker, A.,Gray, E.,Crowhurst, M. (2021). Race, Gender, and Sexualities in Australian Teacher Education: Reflections from the Intersections In: Gender, Race, and Class in the Lives of Today’s Teachers: Educators at Intersections, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021, Switzerland
- Knight, L.,Gray, E.,Blaise, M. (2020). Powerful Dressing: Artfully Challenging Sexism in the Academy In: Transdisciplinary Feminist Research: Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice, Routledge, United Kingdom
10 PhD Completions6 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
- Understanding and Addressing Everyday Sexisms in Australian Universities (administered by Edith Cowen University). Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2021 from (2021 to 2024)
- Developing arts-based interventions into everyday sexism in the academy. Funded by: Australian Association for Research in Education Grant 2016 from (2016 to 2016)