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Miss Talitha Bird

Job: Head of Division, Education

School/department: School of Applied Social Sciences

Address: 51Âþ»­, Leicester LE1 9BH

T: 01162078745

E: talitha.bird@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Talitha is an Associate Professor, and is the Head of Division for Education. 

Talitha is currently the Module Leader of one Level 4 and one Level 6 module, as well as providing supervisory support for Level 6 dissertation students. Some of her previous roles within in the Division for Education have included: Programme Leader for Education Studies; Year Leader for Level 4 and also Level 6; School Widening Participation Representative; Divisional Placement Coordinator, and Divisional Employability Coordinator. 

Talitha's research background is primarily in Critical theory and Critical pedagogy, with a special interest in gender and positionality. Talitha is very interested in creative and collaborative research approaches and methods, such as Participatory Action Research and photovoice. She is currently working towards completing her Phd, which is a critical exploration into how children negotiate gender and sexuality within primary school spaces.

Research group affiliations

Institute for Research in Criminology and Community and Social Justice

Publications and outputs

Bird, T. and Gill, R. (2023) 'Understanding identity and positionality through student-staff interactions on an education studies undergraduate programme'. In: Pulsford, M., Morris, R. and Purves, R. [Eds.]  (2023) Understanding Education Studies: Critical Issues and New Directions. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 137-143

Research interests/expertise

Gender, Sexuality, Childhood, Education, Critical Pedagogy

Areas of teaching

BA: Educational Theory, Issues in Childhood, Education and Social Justice, Critical Pedagogy, Sociology of Education and Childhood, Philosophy of Education and Childhood, Gender and Education

Qualifications

BA [Hons] Education Studies, MA Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, PGCE Post-Compulsory Education and Training

Courses taught

EDUC1402 Perspectives in Education

 

EDUC3315 Radical Education

EDUC3346 Dissertation 

 

Honours and awards

Vice Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award 2016

Professional licences and certificates

PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education and Training