Event Details

This webinar explores how unpaid care work was positioned on mature students’ degrees in English further education colleges.

The Listening Guide, a multilayered feminist framework, was used to analyse students’ life history interviews and create I-poems. The study broadened theoretical perspectives on mature students by using Gouthro’s homeplace theory. The research examined why institutional recognition of unpaid work is necessary for gender equity. FE must promote critical social literacy about gendered work to counter individualised deficit understandings.

This event is part of the Educational Research Seminar Series.

Seminar presenter

Sally Welsh is an independent researcher who completed her PhD in 2024. Previously, she worked as a high school English teacher, an ESOL lecturer and a teacher educator in a further education college. Her research interests include feminist theory, mature students and student parents.