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Research interests
I am fascinated by questions that focus on the meetings/collisions/entanglements of policy and sex, as well as issues such as gender, bodies and relationships that are often deeply personal. The majority of my academic work in this field has focused on policy making practices at English primary schools around relationships and sex education: my PhD thesis employs educational and political approaches to analyse how school-based policy makers navigate the landscape - including national policy - to create RSE policies. More broadly, I interrogate what and how we value in education for children and young people, and how school leaderships can support young people's explorations as sexual and gendered subjects and knowers. My research orientation stems from a long stint as a sexual and reproductive health and rights advocate, which instilled in me a critical orientation toward power, justice, agency and structure.
I am a qualitative researcher with a deep commitment to ethical research practice. I would like to advance participatory action research and other methodologies that recognize diverse knowledges and contributions. I aim to enable community partners to conceptualise and achieve their own objectives while participating in research.
I am currently working full-time on a three-year mixed methods comparative study on the linkages between education and environmental, epistemic and transitional justice in Nepal, Peru and Uganda. The project website can be found here.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Critical Policy Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, Policy Making about Relationships and Sex Education in English Primary Schools, University of Bristol
1 Sept 2013 → 12 May 2019
Award Date: 7 May 2019
Social Work, Master of Research, Participatory research about young people's use of and reflections on local leisure services, University of Bristol
1 Sept 2012 → 30 Jun 2013
Award Date: 31 Jul 2013
Health and Population, Master in Science, Political economy analysis of sexual and reproductive health providers' services for disadvantaged groups , London School of Economics
5 Sept 2007 → 31 Jul 2009
Award Date: 31 Jul 2009
Communication, Bachelor of Arts, Helene Cixous' 'ecriture feminin' , Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
1 Sept 2000 → 30 Jun 2004
Award Date: 30 Jun 2004
Keywords
- LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
- LB1501 Primary Education
- HT Communities. Classes. Races
- HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
- HM Sociology
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Transforming social infrastructure for positive peer cultures: Youth advocacy and public pedagogy to reduce child-on-child sexual harm
15/03/23 → 14/03/24
Project: Research council
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JustEd: Education as and for the Environmental, Epistemic and Transitional Justice to Enable Sustainable Development
Economic and Social Research Council
1/02/20 → 30/11/23
Project: Research council
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Towards epistemically-just research: a methodologies framework
McIntosh, S. & Wilder, R., 30 Jun 2023, In: Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies. 23, 3, p. 235-245Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Power, authority and expertise: policy making about relationships and sex education in English primary schools
Wilder, R., 31 Dec 2023, In: Journal of Education Policy. 38, 5, p. 782-802 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Education at the intersection of environmental, epistemic and transitional justices: An initial scoping review
Milligan, L. O., Ajok, P., Balarin, M., Espinal, S., Karki, M., Komakech, D., Kurawa, G., Monge, C., Nuwategeka, E., Paudel, M., Paulson, J., Ranabhat, S., Sarmiento, P., Shields, R., Singh, A., Singh, G. B. & Wilder, R., 9 Oct 2021, 9 p.Research output: Working paper / Preprint › Discussion paper
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Exploring epistemic justice in educational research
Balarin, M., Paudel, M., Sarmiento, P., Singh, G. B. & Wilder, R., 12 Sept 2021, p. 1-19, 19 p.Research output: Working paper / Preprint › Discussion paper
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Policy Making about Relationships and Sex Education in English Primary Schools
Wilder, R., 7 May 2019, 260 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis