WS G: Understanding Gender and Race in Diverse European Contexts

26.06.2025

Session: 00 SES 0.5 WS G: Understanding Gender and Race in Diverse European Contexts

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Organising Body: NW 33, Gender and Education

Facilitators: Victoria Showunmi and Andrea Abbas

Registration Deadline: 25 August

To register: Please scroll down and click on the link in the green box.

Workshop Description

This workshop will explore the importance of understanding and including race and gender in European educational research.  It will give some context and provide illustrations of the diverse ways in which race and gender intersect in complex ways that are often hard to identify and classify. The presenters will give some examples of what happens when race, gender and their intersections are not acknowledged in research. 

Workshop Objectives:

  • To explore how a researcher’s perspective shapes their research focus and the analysis of their data
  • To raise awareness of the risk of bias in the interpretation of findings, taking account of the impact of lived experience
  • To sensitise researchers to the complexity of intersectionality and the many layers of positionality which have the potential to distort research results

By the end of this session, participants will be better able to:

  • Identify and eliminate the propensity for personal perspectives to influence the interpretation of research data.

Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their positionality. They will be invited to apply these concepts to their own research contexts, merging these with their background knowledge about race, gender and their intersections. 

In the course of our discussions, we will analyse the challenges in using demographic data sets which focus on single characteristics such as gender and race.  We will consider the impact of an itemised approach to data and how this can be circumvented to adopt an intersectional lens which more accurately represents the complex reality of diverse individuals.

Requirements - IMPORTANT:

  • Please bring your laptop to the workshop.
  • You are only eligible to attend this workshop if you are registered as participant of ECER.
  • Please do NOT register for more than one workshop. We will cancel double bookings.
  • Should you not be able to attend, please cancel your reservation, as there might be a waiting list.

Upcoming ECERs

Title
08.09.2025
ECER'25, Belgrade
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Important Dates ECER 2025

Title
01.12.2024
Submission starts
31.01.2025
Submission ends
01.04.2025
Registration starts
01.04.2025
Review results announced
15.05.2025
Early bird ends
25.06.2025
Presentation times announced
30.06.2025
Registration Deadline for Presenters
08.09.2025
ERC First Day
09.09.2025
ECER First Day
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Conference Venue

Main Building (Check-in etc):
University of Belgrade
Faculty of Philology
Studentski trg 3
Belgrade

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