Pam Alldred

Academic qualifications

• PhD ’Fit to Parent’: Psychology, Knowledge and Popular Debate (University of East London)
• PG Dip HE (University of Greenwich
• PG Dip Cultural Studies (University of East London)
• BSc (Hons) Psychology (University of Leicester)

Profile

Pam Alldred’s research and teaching interests are in gender and sexuality, identities and inequalities, particularly in relation to children and young people. Her formation, research and employment has spanned sociology, psychology, education and women’s studies. She has researched sex education and teenage pregnancy, lone mothers and lesbian mothers, professional perspectives on sex education and children’s views of policy, and has also published on qualitative (discursive) research methods. She has been a longstanding member of the Feminist Review Editorial Collective and the Women’s Workshop on Qualitative Household Research.

Committee responsibilities

Previously: Equality & Diversity Officer for the School of Sport & Education, member of the School of Education’s Research Committee, Teaching & Learning Committee, and a School Rep on the Library Users’ Group.

Admin responsibilities

Module leader in the Youth Work Studies team

Teaching responsibilities

Module and programme teaching responsibilities

• Module leader for Young People and Social Identities (MA); Psychological Development (MA);
• Tutor for BA and MA distance learning and part DL modules 
• Dissertation/Project supervisor

Area of interest

• Research methods teaching for BA, MA and Ed
  Equalities and anti-discrimination
• Identities and subjectivities
• Sociology of youth and childhood

PhD supervision

• Tackling Cultures of Violence: Critical Gender Work with Young Men
• Homophobia and Biphobia in Football
• Narrative Approaches to Children’s Art Education
• Reflexive Methods for Teachers’ Personal Development
• Young People’s Music Consumption in Malta
• Emotionally Healthy Primary Schools  (EdD)
• Holocaust Education (EdD)

Research group/centre

• Centre for Youth Work Studies; Brunel Centre for Sport, Health & Well-being

Research interests

Research interests

• Sexualities and sex & relationship education
• Social justice interventions with young people
• Anti-violence education (DV, homophobia and transphobia)
• Governmentality and performativity of school regimes

Pam Alldred’s research interests include sex education and cultures of sexuality and youth. She is currently researching sexualities equalities on an EU funded project (www.ahead-bcn.org); exploring international perspectives on early motherhood; and editing a special issue on the politics of sex education. Her book Get Real About Sex: The Politics & Practice of Sex Education (co-authored by M E David) was published by Open University Press in 2007. 

Her previous research has focussed on childhood, inter-professional work, and parenting, and she has published extensively on research methods. She has been involved in several book collectives and is a member of the Feminist Review Editorial Collective, a Trustee of Feminist Review Trust and on the editorial board for the Annual Review of Critical Psychology (www.discourseunit.com)

research interests include:

• education policy - particularly regarding Sex & Relationship Education, and the education of young mothers
• marginalised parents - the views of teenage mothers and fathers; parents not in paid work; and lesbian, gay and bisexual parents
• children and young people's views - on sex education; employment aspirations; home-school links; and on participating in research
• research methodology and ethics - especially in research with children and young people
• feminist social theory and work on gender and sexuality
• political activism, social justice and debates about social exclusion

Research centres

• Centre for Child and Youth Research (CCYR)
• Centre for Youth Work Studies (CYWS)
• Brunel Centre for Sport Health and Wellbeing (BC•SHaW)

Research projects and grants

• EU Against Homophobia. European Local Administration Devices (AHEAD project) (with Barcelona City Council). See report at http://ahead-bcn.org/?lg=3
• ERASMUS exchange with URV in Tarragona, Spain.

Other external activities

Membership and affiliation of professional bodies

• British Educational Research Association (and BERA Sexuality SIG)
• Affiliated to the Manchester Metropolitan University Discourse Unit

Professional activities/recognition (e.g. consultancy, external examiner duties) 

• Invited presenter at the SIMREF international Feminist Research Methods Residential School 2011
• External examiner: Open University (Youth Studies), and University of Malta (Youth Work Studies)
• Contributor to the 2008 Governmental Review of sex education
• Consultancy work for voluntary & sports organisations and local authorities 

Conferences

• Co-chairing a symposium at the 2011 Gender, Work and Organisation international conference.
• Has presented at BERA, BSA, SPA and BPS national conferences, and internationally at EERA and ISA, and chaired a symposium at SRHE.

Other activities

• Editing a forthcoming Special Issue of the journal Sex Education
• PhD examiner for UK and international PhDs and ‘European PhDs’
• Annual Review of Critical Psychology editorial board

Publications

Journal Papers

(2011) Alldred, P., “How Come I Fell Pregnant?”: Young Mothers‘ Narratives of Conception, International Journal of Adolescence and Youth 16 (2) : 139- 156

(2010) Barker, J., Alldred, P., Watts, M. and Dodman, H., Pupils or prisoners? Institutional geographies and internal exclusion in UK secondary schools, Area 42 (3) : 378- 386

(2008) Treacher, A., Pai, HH., Khalili, L. and Alldred, P., The gendered embroilments of war (Editorial), Feminist Review 88 1- 6

(2005) Alldred, P., Book review on Talk about sex: The battles over sex education in the United States by Janice M Irvine published by University of California Press, Sociological Review 53 (2) : 363- 365

(2005) Alldred, P., Book review on Unfit subjects: educational policy and the teen mother by Wanda S Pillow published by RoutledgeFalmer, Gender and Education 17 (3) : 343- 345

(2004) Duncan, S., Edwards, R., Reynolds, T. and Alldred, P., Mothers and child care: policies, values and theories, Children and Society 18 (4) : 254- 265

(2004) Alldred, P., Preface: Post-communism: women's lives in transition, Feminist Review 76 (1) : 1-

(2004) Alldred, P., Review symposium: Pregnant bodies, fertile minds: gender, race, and the schooling of pregnant teens by W Luttrell published by Routledge, British Journal of Sociology of Education 25 (5) : 629- 634

(2003) Alldred, P., Book review on Supporting refugee children in 21st century Britain: a compendium of essential information by Jill Rutter published by Trentham Books, Feminist Review 73 (1) : 173- 175

(2003) Treacher, A., Coombes, A., Alexander, C., Bland, L. and Alldred, P., Editorial: Exile and asylum: women seeking asylum, in 'Fortress Europe', Feminist Review 73 (1) : 1- 4

(2003) Duncan, S., Edwards, R., Reynolds, T. and Alldred, P., Motherhood, paid work and partnering: values and theories, Work, Employment and Society 17 (2) : 309- 330

(2003) Alldred, P., David, M. and Smith, P., Teachers’ Views of Teaching Sex Education: Pedagogies and Models of Delivery, Journal of Educational Enquiry 4 (1) : 80- 96 Download publication

(2002) Alldred, P., Thinking globally, acting locally: women activists' accounts, Feminist Review 70 (1) : 149- 163 Download publication

(2001) David, M., Edwards, R. and Alldred, P., Children and school-based research: 'informed consent' or 'educated consent'?, British Educational Research Journal 27 (3) : 347- 365

(2001) Alldred, P., Crowley, H. and Rupal, R., Women and mental health, Feminist Review 68 (1) : 1- 5

(2000) Edwards, R. and Alldred, P., A typology of parental involvement in education centring on children and young people: negotiating familialisation, institutionalisation and individualisation, British Journal of Sociology of Education 21 (3) : 435- 455

(2000) Alldred, P. and Dennison, S., Dialogue: Eco-activism and feminism: Do eco-warriors and goddesses need it?, Feminist Review 64 (1) : 124- 127

(2000) Treacher, A., Coombes, AE., Crowley, H., Bland, L., Thomas, L., Storr, M., Alldred, P., Rupal, R. and Bertram, V., Editorial: Feminism 2000: One step beyond?, Feminist Review 64 (1) : 1- 2

(2000) Alldred, P., Bertram, V. and Brah, A., Editorial: Political currents, Feminist Review 66 (1) : 1- 3

(1999) Edwards, R. and Alldred, P., Children and young people's views of social research - the case of research on home-school relations, Childhood 6 (2) : 261- 281

(1998) Alldred, P., Making a mockery of family life? Lesbian mothers in the British media, Journal of Lesbian Studies 2B (4) Download publication

(1997) Alldred, P., Book review on Unwomanly conduct: the challenges of intentional childlessness by Carolyn M Morell, published in New York by Routledge, Feminism and Psychology 7 (3) : 406- 410

(1992) Alldred, P., Book review on The mirror within - a new look at sexuality by Anne Dickson, published in London by Quartet Books, Feminism and Psychology 2 (3) : 483- 484

Book Chapters

(2011) Alldred, P. and Barker, J., Documentary and Secondary Analysis. In: Bradford, S. and Cullen, F. eds. Research Methods for Youth Practitioners. UK : Routledge

(2010) Alldred, P. and David, M., What's important at the end of the day? Young mothers' values and policy presumptions. In: Duncan, S., Edwards, R. and Alexander, C. eds. Teenage Parenthood: What's the Problem?. London : Tufnell Press -

(2007) Alldred, P. and Miller, T., Measuring what’s valued or valuing what’s measured? Knowledge production and the Research Assessment Exercise. In: Gillies, V. and Lucey, H. eds. Power, knowledge and the academy. Palgrave MacMillan - Download publication

(2005) Alldred, P. and Burman, E., Analysing children's accounts using discourse analysis. In: Greene, S. and Hogan, D. eds. Researching children's experience: approaches and methods. London, UK : Sage Publications Ltd 175- 198 Download publication

(2002) Alldred, P. and Gillies, V., Eliciting research accounts: re/producing modern subjects?. In: Mauthner, M., Birch, M., Jessop, J. and Miller, T. eds. Ethics in qualitative research. London, UK : SAGE Publications Ltd 146- 165

(1999) Alldred, P., Not making a virtue of a necessity: Nancy Fraser on 'PostSocialist' politics. In: Lent, A. and Jordan, T. eds. Storming the millennium: the new politics of change. Lawrence And Wishart Ltd - Download publication

(1998) Alldred, P., Ethnography and discourse analysis: dilemmas in representing the voices of children. In: Edwards, R. and Ribbens, J. eds. Feminist dilemmas in qualitative research. Sage Publications Ltd - Download publication

Books

(2007) Alldred, P. and Daid, ME., Get real about sex: the politics and practice of sex education. Open University Press