Finding the Way

Finding the Way

Understanding the Barriers to Retention and Success for Early Career Researchers in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Sciences and Engineering

Journal articles by our team

STEM and Education

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Stentiford, L.J. (2019). ‘You can tell which ones are the laddy lads’: young women’s accounts of the engineering classroom at a high-performing English university. Journal of Gender Studies28(2), 218-230, DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2018.1423957

Sentance, S.; Waite, J.; Yeomans, L. & MacLeod, E. (2017). Teaching with physical computing devices: the BBC micro:bit initiative. 87-96, DOI: 10.1145/3137065.3137083.

Yeomans, L.; Zschaler, S. & Coate, K. (2019). Transformative and Troublesome? Students’ and Professional Programmers’ Perspectives on Difficult Concepts in Programming. ACM Transactions on Computing Education. 19. 1-27; DOI: 10.1145/3283071.

Francis, B.; Archer, L.; Moote, J.; Witt, J. & Yeomans, L. (2017). Femininity, science, and the denigration of the girly girl, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38:8, 1097- 1110, DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2016.1253455

Francis, B.; Archer, L.; Moote, J.; DeWitt, J.; MacLeod, E. & Yeomans, L. (2017). The Construction of Physics as a Quintessentially Masculine Subject: Young People’s Perceptions of Gender Issues in Access to Physics. Sex Roles. 76. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-016-0669-z.

Archer, L.; Moote, J. & Francis, B.; DeWitt, J. & Yeomans, L. (2016). The “Exceptional” Physics Girl: A Sociological Analysis of Multimethod Data From Young Women Aged 10-16 to Explore Gendered Patterns of Post-16 Participation. American Educational Research Journal. 54, DOI: 10.3102/0002831216678379.

Archer, L., Moote, J., Francis, B., DeWitt, J. & Yeomans, L. (2016). Stratifying science: a Bourdieusian analysis of student views and experiences of school selective practices in relation to ‘Triple Science’ at KS4 in England. Research Papers in Education. 32. 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2016.1219382.

Inclusion

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Fernández, D., Ryan, M.K. & Begeny, C.T. (2023). Recognizing the diversity in how students define belonging: evidence of differing conceptualizations, including as a function of students’ gender and socioeconomic background. Social Psychology of Education. DOI: 10.1007/s11218-023-09761-7

Stentiford, L. & Koutsouris, G. (2021). What are Inclusive Pedagogies in Higher Education?: a Systematic Scoping Review. Studies in Higher Education46, 2245-2261, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2020.1716322

Koutsouris, G., Anglin-Jaffe, H. & Stentiford, L. (2020). How well do we understand social inclusion in education?. British Journal of Educational Studies, 68(2), 179-196, DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2019.1658861