Tzanakou, Charikleia, Angouri, Jo and Mesinioti, Polina (2017) Gender discourses and ideology in higher education-from institutional documents to the lived experience and back. In: SRHE Annual Research Conference, Celtic Manor, Newport, South Wales, UK, 6-8 Dec 2017

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Abstract

Gender equality in HE has become topical especially since the emergence of gender equality programmes such as the Athena SWAN (AS) in the UK. Higher education institutions invest resources in collecting and analysing quantitative data to design and implement actions to address gender imbalances. However, there has been less attention on the nuances of the institutional discourse and the complexity of the lived experiences of individuals. This paper focuses on an institutional case study to enhance our understanding of the dominant discourses and ideologies that circulate in one HE setting through these lenses. While making the invisible visible has been on critical discourse analysts’ agenda (Wodak, 2015), gender ideologies in academia remain under-explored. Furthermore, this paper brings together critical discourse analysis of institutional documents and lived experiences of institutional practices to investigate gender ideologies and how the incongruence between the two can limit the effect of AS in institutional change.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Paper)
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Official Date:	6 December 2017
Dates:	Date Event 6 December 2017 Accepted
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	SRHE Annual Research Conference
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Celtic Manor, Newport, South Wales, UK
Date(s) of Event:	6-8 Dec 2017
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