Rosalyn George is a Professor of Education and Equality. She is a tutor on the MA: Culture, Language and Identity and leads the module on Masculinities and Femininities. Rosalyn is also the Director of the Research Centre for Identities and Social Justice.
Teaching
Before entering Higher Education, Rosalyn taught in both primary and middle schools in London and was an LEA Advisory Teacher for Equal Opportunities.
She supervises MPhil/PhD students covering a range of research fields. Please contact Rosalyn for PhD vacancies.
Professional projects
Rosalyn's research interests coalesce around issues of social justice and equity in the contexts of schools and Higher Education and focus on three areas.
Firstly, she is particularly interested in exploring urban girls’ friendship networks and schooling. The diversity of ethnicities found in large urban communities and how the girls manage and negotiate their friendships across ethnic divisions. This has been a central plank of her research. She focuses on the constitution of the friendship groups with questions of ‘leadership’ and ‘popularity’,’ race’ and ethnicity and ‘bullying’ being explored and their resonance for the ‘exclusionary’ and ‘inclusionary’ practices which characterise many friendship groups examined. How parents and carers are involved in their girls’ schooling is an extension of this work.
A second research focus is concerned with schooling experience of the children of newly arrived Romanian and Bulgarian families. This research explores how ‘xeno racist’ attitudes develop in school students and the extent to which school policies and practices with respect to racism support inclusion and social justice for all.
Rosalyn also critiques and publishes in the area of UK Government Education policy with a particular focus on routes into Teaching Education/Training.
George, Rosalyn P. and Clay, John. 2013. Equality and Diversity. In: Viv Ellis, ed. Learning and Teaching in Secondary Schools. Learning Matters; Fifth Edition edition, pp. 169-182. ISBN 978-1446267516
George, Rosalyn P.. 2012. Looking out for Little Miss Popular. In: Roger Hancock; Janet Collins and Mary Stacey, eds. Primary Teaching Assistants: Learners and learning. Oxford, UK: Guilford Press. ISBN 9780415504300
George, Rosalyn P. and Wadsworth, S. J.. 2007. Negotiating the School Climate. In: Kate Myers; Hazel Taylor; Sue Adler and Diana Leonard, eds. Genderwatch. Trentham Publications. ISBN 978-1858564012
