Associate Professor Emily Gray
Associate Professor
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College: School of Education
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Department: School of Education
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Campus: Bundoora West Australia
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emily.gray@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Media enquiries
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Emily is Associate Professor of Education Studies at RMIT’s School of Education. Emily’s research is interdisciplinary includes sociology, cultural studies and education.
Emily's empirically informed scholarship provides insights into educators’ lived experiences in relation to gender, sexisms, sexualities and workplaces and she aims to illustrate how, where, and why educational inequalities occur as well as to shape responses to them. Her research is theoretically engaged, and she develops new ways of working with and thinking through social theory in its application to research problems and questions, as well as within knowledge translation mechanisms. The breadth and depth of Emily's research means that her work has impacted significantly in the fields of gender discrimination in higher education; workplace-based discrimination in relation to LGBTIQ+ educators in both schools and in higher education; sexisms in higher education and finally, popular culture and gender representation.
One of Emily's key achievements in relation to impact and engagement has been in the translation of research results to ensure impact beyond the academy. Her work with #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism strongly reflects this priority. #FEAS is a collective that Emily co-founded in 2016 and is currently co-led by Mindy Blaise (ECU), Jo Pollitt (ECU) and Emily. #FEAS work together as academics, artists, and performers to develop creative and innovative research translation mechanisms including zine making, exhibitions, short films, and live performances. #FEAS aim to make research findings intelligible to audiences outside of the academy and, as their reputation grows, they develop performance pieces for public consumption.
Emily brings a nuanced and sophisticated understanding of how gender operates within the social world and specifically within the workplace to her work in teacher education. Her work with #FEAS has had global impact on research into gender-based discrimination in universities through written submissions and more so by non-traditional, innovative, and creative means of knowledge translation such as performance, exhibition, and large-scale collaborations. This work is shaping the ways in which challenges to everyday and structural sexism are happening internationally.
Emily's empirically informed scholarship provides insights into educators’ lived experiences in relation to gender, sexisms, sexualities and workplaces and she aims to illustrate how, where, and why educational inequalities occur as well as to shape responses to them. Her research is theoretically engaged, and she develops new ways of working with and thinking through social theory in its application to research problems and questions, as well as within knowledge translation mechanisms. The breadth and depth of Emily's research means that her work has impacted significantly in the fields of gender discrimination in higher education; workplace-based discrimination in relation to LGBTIQ+ educators in both schools and in higher education; sexisms in higher education and finally, popular culture and gender representation.
One of Emily's key achievements in relation to impact and engagement has been in the translation of research results to ensure impact beyond the academy. Her work with #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism strongly reflects this priority. #FEAS is a collective that Emily co-founded in 2016 and is currently co-led by Mindy Blaise (ECU), Jo Pollitt (ECU) and Emily. #FEAS work together as academics, artists, and performers to develop creative and innovative research translation mechanisms including zine making, exhibitions, short films, and live performances. #FEAS aim to make research findings intelligible to audiences outside of the academy and, as their reputation grows, they develop performance pieces for public consumption.
Emily brings a nuanced and sophisticated understanding of how gender operates within the social world and specifically within the workplace to her work in teacher education. Her work with #FEAS has had global impact on research into gender-based discrimination in universities through written submissions and more so by non-traditional, innovative, and creative means of knowledge translation such as performance, exhibition, and large-scale collaborations. This work is shaping the ways in which challenges to everyday and structural sexism are happening internationally.
Research fields
- 390406 Gender, sexuality and education
- 390203 Sociology of education
- 390303 Higher education
- 4405 Gender studies
- 440501 Feminist and queer theory
UN sustainable development goals
- 5 Gender Equality
- 4 Quality Education
Supervisor projects
- Leadership, Curriculum and Quality Education in Cambodian Higher Education: A Study of Sustainable Development in a Postcolonial Nation State
- 31 May 2024
- Through Their Voices: Challenges for Chinese Academic Mothers Who Seek Career Progression in a Patriarchal Work Environment
- 12 Feb 2024
- Impacts of inclusive education policy on social and academic inclusion/exclusion of students with disabilities at Special Education High School in Cambodia
- 26 Jun 2023
- Studying Son Preference in China's Rural Areas: A Feminist Perspective
- 8 Mar 2023
- Screening Single-Sex Education: Representing the Formation of Girls Gender and Sexual Identities in Cinema
- 18 Jan 2023
- Mathematics Teachers Reflective Practices in Bhutanese Secondary Schools
- 7 Dec 2022
- The Gonski Era of School Funding Policy: A Critical Policy Analysis
- 10 Feb 2022
- Omani department deans during COVID-19: Challenges and best practice
- 27 Jan 2022
- Indias Anganwadi Transformation Initiative: A Study of Disruptive Vocational Education for Sustainable Development in a Post-Colonial context. Challenges and implications for UNEVOC TVET Innovation Agenda moving forward.
- 10 Dec 2021
- On The Impossibility of Being a Good Teacher: A Journey in Three Acts
- 29 Nov 2021
- Identifying the language of rights in Early Childhood Settings
- 18 May 2021
- LGBQ Teacher Identities in Australian Catholic School Workplaces
- 23 Jun 2020
- Writing a Transcultural Teacher: Critical Autoethnographic Prose Poems on Teacher Subjectivity across Singapore, Shanghai and Melbourne
- 15 Apr 2020
- Enhancing Language Learning Through Critical Thinking Incorporation: How Do EFL Academics and Students in a Thai University Perceive the Incorporation of Critical Thinking Skills in Teaching and Learning?
- 6 Mar 2019
- Khawaja Sara and Hijra: Gender and Sexual Identity Formation in Postcolonial Islamic Pakistan
- 2 Jan 2019
- Artist-Activists in Protest Hong Kong: Trans/formation of Subjectivity
- 10 Sep 2018
- The ‘Problem’ of Girls’ Education in Rural Balochistan: A Study of Postcolonial Islamic Governmentalities in Pakistan
- 28 Aug 2018
- What are Principals' perspectives on situations that involve emotional work in their day-to-day lives and their perspectives on the role of emotional intelligence in the work that they do?
- 28 May 2018
- China, A Hybrid Assemblage: Symbol, Metaphor, and Identity in a Mandarin Language Program
- 8 Mar 2018
- Family Values. An Autotheoretical Exploration of the Backlash Against Safe Schools in Australia
- 28 Feb 2018
Teaching interests
Supervisor interest areas:
-Gender
-Sexism
-Higher Education
-Sexualities
-Sociology
Current supervisor projects:
Samira al Sulaimani - Omani department deans during COVID-19: Challenges and best practice (co-supervisor Prof. Angela Fitzgerald RMIT University)
Leigh Fisher - Making sense of the Anganwadi in India (co-supervisor Dr. Rucelle Hughes, RMIT University)
Emma Fishwick (Edith Cowan University) - Slow Choreographies: Addressing everyday sexisms through creative interventions (co-supervisors Prof.
Mindy Blaise, Dr Jo Pollitt, ECU and A/Prof Jacqueline Ullman, Western Sydney University)
Han Lu – Academic mothers in Chinese contexts (co-supervisor Emerita Professor Annette Gough OA, RMIT University)
Katherine Sproule - Screening Single-Sex Education: Representing the Formation of Girls’ Gender and Sexual Identities in Cinema (co-supervisor Dr. Djoymi Baker, RMIT University)
Jingjing Qiang – Son Preference in the Rural Area of Shanxi Province, China (co-supervisor Emerita Professor Annette Gough OA, RMIT University)
Completed supervisor projects
Dr Matthew Barker – Awarded 2024, On the Impossibility of Being a Good Teacher (co-supervisor Prof. Peter Kelly, Deakin University)
Dr Alamgir Yousufzai – Awarded 2023, Khawaja Sara and Hijra: Gender and sexual identity formation in contemporary Pakistan (co-supervisors Prof. Peter Kelly, Deakin University and Dr Seth Brown, RMIT University)
Dr Alexandra Ciaffaglione – Awarded 2023,The Erasure of LGBTQIA+ teacher identities in Australian Catholic education systems (co-supervisor Dr Michael Crowhurst RMIT University)
Dr James Goring (Deakin University) – Awarded 2023, A Genealogy of Critical Thinking: Re-thinking Neo-liberal Educational Discourses and the ‘Problem’ of Young People (co-supervisors Prof. Peter Kelly, Deakin University, Prof. Damien Blake, Deakin University)
Dr Javed Anwar – Awarded 2022, Improving Gender Equality in Primary Education and Its Impact on Social Uplift in Balochistan, Pakistan (co-supervisors Prof. Peter Kelly, Deakin University and Dr Elise Hunkin, La Trobe University), winner of the RMIT Prize for Research Impact ‐ Higher Degree by Research (Enterprise)
Dr Matthew Sinclair – Awarded 2022, The Gonski Era of School Funding Policy (co-supervisors Dr Rucelle Hughes, RMIT University and Professor Jeffrey Brooks, Curtin University)
Dr Roz Ward - Awarded 2022, Family Values: An Autotheoretical Exploration of the Backlash Against Safe Schools in Australia (co-supervisor Prof. Peter Kelly, Deakin University) winner of the 2022 AARE Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education
Dr Chunyan Zhang - Awarded 2021, China, a Hybrid Assemblage: Symbol, Metaphor and Identity in a Primary Language Program (co-supervisor Prof. Peter Kelly, Deakin University)
Dr Debi Futter-Puati – Awarded 2017, Api’ianga Tupuanga Kopapa: Sexuality Education in the Cook Islands (co-supervisor Dr. Jennifer Elsden-Clifton, RMIT University)
Dr Jianli Wang – Awarded 2016, Activity Theoretical Perspectives on International Chinese Students’ (ICSs’) Academic-Related Issues in Australia: The Adapted Change Laboratory Approach (CLA) (co-supervisor Dr. Judith Ocean, RMIT University)
Dr Wen-Hui Chang – Awarded 2015, An Exploration of Intended, Enacted and Experienced TCSL E-Learning Curriculum in a Taiwan Master’s Program (Co-supervisor Dr Jennifer Elsden Clifton, RMIT University)
Dr John Haycock – Awarded 2015, Protest Music, Adult Learning and Education for Social Change (co-supervisor Prof. Mary Lou Rasmussen, Monash University)
Programs:
-BP320 - Bachelor of Education
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/education/career-education)
-Masters of Teaching Practice
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/education/teacher-education)
-Higher Degrees by Research (supervision and course delivery)
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/education)
-Gender
-Sexism
-Higher Education
-Sexualities
-Sociology
Current supervisor projects:
Samira al Sulaimani - Omani department deans during COVID-19: Challenges and best practice (co-supervisor Prof. Angela Fitzgerald RMIT University)
Leigh Fisher - Making sense of the Anganwadi in India (co-supervisor Dr. Rucelle Hughes, RMIT University)
Emma Fishwick (Edith Cowan University) - Slow Choreographies: Addressing everyday sexisms through creative interventions (co-supervisors Prof.
Mindy Blaise, Dr Jo Pollitt, ECU and A/Prof Jacqueline Ullman, Western Sydney University)
Han Lu – Academic mothers in Chinese contexts (co-supervisor Emerita Professor Annette Gough OA, RMIT University)
Katherine Sproule - Screening Single-Sex Education: Representing the Formation of Girls’ Gender and Sexual Identities in Cinema (co-supervisor Dr. Djoymi Baker, RMIT University)
Jingjing Qiang – Son Preference in the Rural Area of Shanxi Province, China (co-supervisor Emerita Professor Annette Gough OA, RMIT University)
Completed supervisor projects
Dr Matthew Barker – Awarded 2024, On the Impossibility of Being a Good Teacher (co-supervisor Prof. Peter Kelly, Deakin University)
Dr Alamgir Yousufzai – Awarded 2023, Khawaja Sara and Hijra: Gender and sexual identity formation in contemporary Pakistan (co-supervisors Prof. Peter Kelly, Deakin University and Dr Seth Brown, RMIT University)
Dr Alexandra Ciaffaglione – Awarded 2023,The Erasure of LGBTQIA+ teacher identities in Australian Catholic education systems (co-supervisor Dr Michael Crowhurst RMIT University)
Dr James Goring (Deakin University) – Awarded 2023, A Genealogy of Critical Thinking: Re-thinking Neo-liberal Educational Discourses and the ‘Problem’ of Young People (co-supervisors Prof. Peter Kelly, Deakin University, Prof. Damien Blake, Deakin University)
Dr Javed Anwar – Awarded 2022, Improving Gender Equality in Primary Education and Its Impact on Social Uplift in Balochistan, Pakistan (co-supervisors Prof. Peter Kelly, Deakin University and Dr Elise Hunkin, La Trobe University), winner of the RMIT Prize for Research Impact ‐ Higher Degree by Research (Enterprise)
Dr Matthew Sinclair – Awarded 2022, The Gonski Era of School Funding Policy (co-supervisors Dr Rucelle Hughes, RMIT University and Professor Jeffrey Brooks, Curtin University)
Dr Roz Ward - Awarded 2022, Family Values: An Autotheoretical Exploration of the Backlash Against Safe Schools in Australia (co-supervisor Prof. Peter Kelly, Deakin University) winner of the 2022 AARE Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education
Dr Chunyan Zhang - Awarded 2021, China, a Hybrid Assemblage: Symbol, Metaphor and Identity in a Primary Language Program (co-supervisor Prof. Peter Kelly, Deakin University)
Dr Debi Futter-Puati – Awarded 2017, Api’ianga Tupuanga Kopapa: Sexuality Education in the Cook Islands (co-supervisor Dr. Jennifer Elsden-Clifton, RMIT University)
Dr Jianli Wang – Awarded 2016, Activity Theoretical Perspectives on International Chinese Students’ (ICSs’) Academic-Related Issues in Australia: The Adapted Change Laboratory Approach (CLA) (co-supervisor Dr. Judith Ocean, RMIT University)
Dr Wen-Hui Chang – Awarded 2015, An Exploration of Intended, Enacted and Experienced TCSL E-Learning Curriculum in a Taiwan Master’s Program (Co-supervisor Dr Jennifer Elsden Clifton, RMIT University)
Dr John Haycock – Awarded 2015, Protest Music, Adult Learning and Education for Social Change (co-supervisor Prof. Mary Lou Rasmussen, Monash University)
Programs:
-BP320 - Bachelor of Education
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/education/career-education)
-Masters of Teaching Practice
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/education/teacher-education)
-Higher Degrees by Research (supervision and course delivery)
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/education)
Research interests
As a researcher, Emily is interested in questions of gender and sexuality and with how these identity categories are lived and experienced within social institutions. Her key research interests therefore lie with questions related to gender, social justice, student and teacher identity and with wider social justice issues within educational discourse and practice. She also writes on popular culture, public pedagogies and audience studies, online fandom and media and popular culture as pedagogical tools. She is co-founder of #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism, an international feminist collective committed to developing creative interventions into sexism in the academy and other places. (https://feministeducatorsagainstsexism.com/)
Research keywords:
Gender, Sexism, Higher Education, Sexualities, Sociology
Research keywords:
Gender, Sexism, Higher Education, Sexualities, Sociology
