Research Papers

Research says…

• Male pre-service teachers: navigating masculinities on campus and on placement. (Eldred et al., 2022)

• ‘The Spornosexual’: the affective contradictions of male body-work in neoliberal digital culture. (Hakim, 2016)

• “Male Delivery”: a critical investigation of what boys have to say about the influence of male teachers on literacy engagement and achievement. (Watson, 2017)

• Privates in the online public: Sex(ting) and reputation on social media. (Salter, 2015)

• Sext education: pedagogies of sex, gender and shame in the schoolyards of Tagged and Exposed. (Dobson & Ringrose, 2016)

• “Isn’t That a Girl Problem?” (Kehler & Borduas, 2021)

• ‘I don’t think my torso is anything to write home about’: men’s reflexive production of ‘authentic’ photos for online dating platforms (Walin et al., 2022)

• ‘I get together with my friends and try to change it’. Young feminist students resist ‘laddism’, ‘rape culture’ and ‘everyday sexism’ (Lewis et al., 2018)

• Caution! Hazards ahead: Considering the potential gap between feminist thinking and men/masculinities theory and practice (Beasley, 2015)

• Boys as Sexy Bodies: Picturing Young Men’s Sexual Embodiment at School (Allen, 2013)

• Bringing in margin and centre: ‘open’ and ‘closed’ as concepts for considering men and masculinities (Elliott, 2020)

• Fostering healthy masculinity in challenging times (Barker et al., 2020)

• Just a Joke? The Thin Line between Teasing, Harassment and Violence among Teenage Boys in Lower Secondary School (Odenbring & Johansson, 2020)

• Engaging boys in gender activism: issues of discomfort and emotion (Keddie, 2020)

• Queer Intersubjectivity: Doing and Undoing Masculinity in Women’s Studies (Landreau, 2011)

• Where are the feminine boys? Interrogating the positions of feminised masculinities in research on gender and childhood (Paechter, 2019)

• The Pedagogical Practices of Québec High School Teachers Relative to Sexual Diversity (Richard, 2015)

• Contradictions and tensions in the practice of masculinities in school: interrogating embodiment and 'good buddy talk' (Kehler et al., 2005)

• Playing it up, playing it down, playing it safe: Queering teacher education (Robinson & Ferfolja, 2007)

• Preteen Boys, Body Image, and Eating Disorders (Wright et al., 2015)

• “Isn’t that a girl’s problem?”: Considerations of male body image in school contexts (Borduas et al., 2022)

• Standing “Straight” Up to Homophobia: Straight Allies’ Involvement in GSAs (Lapointe, 2015)

• Media Representations of Popular Culture Figures and the Construction of Black Masculinities (Goodwill et al., 2019)

• DCU-Anti-bullying Centre-Male Supremacist Influencers-Report

• DCU-Masculinity Influencers on teenage Boys: A guide