Supporting practitioners
Gender stereotypes workshops
We provide several free workshops for schools and educators, which can be delivered in person or online and adapted to suit particular needs or projects. Examples include:
Understanding the psychology and consequences of stereotypes (for Primary school pupils)
Gender and stereotypes - what's the issue and what can we do to reduce gender prejudice? (or Primary and Secondary school pupils)
The influence of gender stereotypes on young people's choices (for secondary schools and other education institutions for young people)
Please contact us if you would like more information, or would like to request a session.
Policy and Practice
We are working with a number of national gender equality organisations with the aim of sharing research and ensuring decisions reflect evidenced-based practice. We have representation on national Education Scotland groups such as:
Improving Gender Balance and Equalities (IGBE): a group that provides resources and research for practitioners to help challenge gender stereotypes, address unconscious bias, improve gender balance in subject uptake and learner pathways and promote whole-establishment approaches to equality.
Equalities Policy Group: A collective of practitioners and educators organised by IGBE, responsible for the development of resources to support school equalities policy development.
We are also working with members of the Scottish Government's Gender Equality Taskforce in Education and Learning,
Sharing research with educators
Sharing our research studies with teachers and educators is an important part of our work. We have created leaflets like those below to give brief overviews of our key research findings:
