«The importance of violence for peoples' well-being, for regimes of inequality and for other institutional domains, is much underestimated in social theory; indeed it is frequently rendered invisible. Yet the regulation and deployment of violence is part of the constitution of the social order, complex inequalities and globalisation.»
(Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair on Gender Research, 2009, 191)
EDUVISION focuses on the intersections of education and inequalities, with a specific emphasis on gender and gender violence. Our vision is to contribute to new scholarship on gender analysis and gender violence informed by empirical research.
- We have a special interest in trajectories of education in formal and non-formal contexts (up to higher education): how diachronic and synchronic processes of socialisation are structured by social inequalities. In particular we seek to analyse to what extent, and in which circumstances, social inequalities are moderated or reinforced.
- EDUVISION has distinctive expertise in «Violence and gender», having undertaken a number of ground breaking studies on domestic and sexual violence that had policy and practice implications. In our work, violence is researched as a social context for childhoods: we analyse how families, schools and other institutions (for example, child protection and the criminal justice system) deal with these issues.
Our intention is to contribute to the international knowledge based on gender and generational violence, whilst deepening the understanding of how inequalities affect educational trajectories.
Our approach integrates social theory on institutional processes and subjective perspectives, drawing on concepts from gender studies, structuration theory and sociology of education.
We use multi-methodological research designs, combining qualitative and quantitative methods, and have a strong record working with Grounded Theory, Ethnography and biographical methods.
EDUVISION has extensive national and international networks, including being members of EU funded research networks and participating in comparative studies.