Sarah Barnard
Office address:
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire LE11 3TU
UK
Office: U005 Brockington Building.
e-mail: S.H.Barnard@lboro.ac.uk
Office telephone:+ 44 (0)1509 222848
Fax:+ 44 (0)1509 22 3944
Biography
I graduated in 2000 from the BSc Communication and Media Studies in the Department of Social Sciences, following a period of working at Nottingham Trent University I returned to register as a part-time PhD student. My thesis explores the growth and impact of private higher education in the UK.
Between March 2003 and July 2010 I worked as research assistant to Professor Peter Golding. During my time working in the Department of Social Sciences I have also worked as research associate on a variety of research projects; exploring experiences of students in higher and further education institutions; research on UK reporting of EU news as part of the AIM Research Consortium; an analysis of media coverage of the 2004 Olympic games; and more recently completing a report on the literature on women’s experience of the cultures of Science, Engineering and Technology professions. During these research projects I have worked with university colleagues in the Department of Sports and Exercise Sciences, the Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Registry and the International Office. I have also presented papers at international conferences; the International Communications Association (Dresden, 2006), International Sociological Association (Durban, 2006) and European Sociological Association (Antalya, 2006) and national conferences; the British Sociological Association (Cardiff, 2009) and MeCCSA (Bradford, 2009).
I also worked as Assistant Editor for the European Journal of Communication from March 2003 to July 2009, (website: http://ejc.sagepub.com/) and have assisted in the production of the special issue of European Societies journal (Volume 9, Issue 5, 2007) and the edited book, Unpacking Digital Dynamics, by Graham Murdock and Peter Golding (2010) and The Public Sphere, vol. i-iv Jostein Gripsrud, Graham Murdock and Anders Molander (2010).
Between August 2009 and July 2010 I co-chaired the university’s gender research group – Women and Gender Studies (WAGS), renamed Research Agenda. I was involved in securing university funding for the group, which enabled more external speakers to be tenable and produced better promotion for the group’s sessions.
Between July 2009 and September 2011 I was Research Associate in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering on the Helena Project, which explores engineering curriculum in higher education with a particular focus on women in engineering. See webpage for more details; http://www.fp7-helena.org/
I am currently working with colleagues in the Department of Social Sciences on the BBC impartiality review on the coverage of the Arab Spring, research that looks at news archives and coverage of various themes from 1918 onwards and developing research proposals with colleagues in Social Sciences and Civil and Building Engineering.
Articles published
Barnard, S., T. Hassan, B. Bagilhole and A. Dainty (2012) ‘They’re not Girly Girls’: An Exploration of Quantitative and Qualitative Data on Engineering and Gender in Higher Education. European Journal of Engineering Education.
Barnard, S. B. Bagilhole, A. Dainty and T. Hassan (2012) ‘Women, Engineering and Higher Education in the UK: Trends in Participation and Curriculum Development’ in Béraud, André, Godfroy, Anne-Sophie, Michel, Jean (eds.), Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers. Does Interdisciplinary Education improve the gender balance and attract more young people in Engineering and Technology higher education? Proceedings of the GIEE HELENA Conference, Paris June 23-24 2011. Sense Publishers.
Barnard, S.; Powell, A.; Bagilhole, B.; Dainty, A.. (2010) Researching UK Women Professionals in SET: A Critical Review of Current Approaches. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, North America, 2 3 08 2010.
Maguire, J., Barnard, S., Butler, K. and P. Golding (2008) ‘Olympic Legacies in the IOC’s ‘Celebrate Humanity’ Campaign: Ancient or Modern?’ The International Journal of the History of Sport, 2041-59.
Maguire, J., Butler, K., Barnard, S. and P. Golding (2008) ‘Olympism and Consumption: An Analysis of Advertising in the British Media Coverage of the 2004 Olympic Games’ Sociology of Sport Journal, 2008, 25: 167-86.
Maguire, J., Barnard, S., Butler, K. and P. Golding (2008) ‘Celebrate Humanity or consumers?: Building markets, constructing brands and glocalising identities’ Social Identities, 14(1): 63-77.
Barnard, S., Butler, K, Maguire, J. and Golding, P. (2006) ‘Making the News’: The 2004 Athens Olympics and Competing Ideologies? Olympika XV The International Journal for Olympic Studies 35-58.
Research reports published
(Prior to July 2005 these were published in my maiden name – Rawson)Barnard, S., Bagilhole, B., Dainty, A and Hassan T. (2010) ‘Deliverable 2.2: State of the Art, Career Choice and Gender’ for the Higher Education leading to Scientific Careers (HELENA) project.
Bagilhole, B. Powell, A., Barnard, S. and Dainty, A. (2007) Researching cultures in science, engineering and technology: an analysis of current and past literature. Available here.
Golding, P. and Barnard, S. (2007) ‘The Case of the UK’ pp 133-142 in AIM Research Consortium (eds) Understanding the Logic of EU Reporting from Brussels: Analysis of Interviews with EU Correspondents and Spokespersons. See www.aim-project.net
Barnard, S. & Owen H. (2005) International Students in the Community Study.
A report for the East Midlands Development Agency in conjunction with The University of Nottingham and Broxtowe College, Nottingham.
Available here.Rawson, S. & Davidson S. (2005) International Students at Broxtowe College Nottingham: a report for the East Midlands Development Agency.
Available here.Golding, P., McGuigan, J., Deacon, D., Purdey, H. and Rawson, S. (2005) The Case of Great Britain. AIM project. Available here.
Rawson, S. (2004) International students benchmarking study, for the East Midlands Development Agency
Available here.Rawson, S. (2003) Widening participation. Report to the Department of Social Sciences. Loughborough University
Conference papers
Barnard, S. B. Bagilhole, A. Dainty and T. Hassan (2011) ‘Women, Engineering and Higher Education in the UK: trends in participation and curriculum development’, paper presented at GIEE Conference 2011, Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers, Paris, 23th – 24th June 2011.
Barnard, S., Bagilhole, B. Hassan, T. and Dainty, A. (2010) ‘Reflections on methodology in gender research: politics, theory and issues’. Abstract submitted to Science in Society conference 11-13 November, Madrid, Spain.
Barbara Bagilhole, Sarah Barnard, Andrew Dainty & Tarek Hassan (2010) ‘Engineering curriculum in UK higher education and gender: a quantitative and qualitative exploration of the effects of interdisciplinary content’. Abstract submitted to Beyond the leaky pipeline. Challenges for research on gender and science
Final conference of the study ‘Meta-analysis of gender and science research’
19th - 20th October 2010, Brussels (Belgium)Barnard, S., Hassan, T., Bagilhole, B. and Dainty, A. (2010) 'Women in engineering in the UK: approaches to inclusion and engineering curriculum development' Presented at the UK's Higher Education Academy 'Promoting Equity in Higher Education' conference 27th-28th January 2010. Eastwood, Nottingham.
Bagilhole, B., Powell, A., Dainty, A. and Barnard, S. (2009) ‘Gendered Behaviour: Cultures in UK engineering and construction organisations’. Abstract submitted to: 5th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference (ISEC-5), 21-27 Sept 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Bagilhole, B., Powell, A., Dainty, A. and Barnard, S. (2009) ‘Engineering Women: Gendered cultures in science, engineering and technology institutions’. Abstract submitted to: 7th European Feminist Research Conference, 4-7 June 2009, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Barnard, Sarah (2009) ‘Virtual Universities and the Commodification of Higher Education’ British Sociological Association – Cardiff 2009
Barnard, Sarah (2009) ‘Digital Media and the New Market in Virtual Higher Education’, MeCCSA – Bradford 2009
Bagilhole, B., Powell, A., Dainty, A. and Barnard, S. (2007) Gendered Cultures in Science, Engineering and Technology. Prometea International Conference: Women in Engineering and Technology Research, 26-27 Oct, Paris, France.
Maguire, J., Barnard, S. Butler, K and P. Golding (2007) ‘Branding and Consumption in the IOC’s ‘Celebrate Humanity’ Advertisements’ MeCCSA – Coventry 2007
Barnard, S. and P. Golding (2006) ‘The Brussels News Beat and the European Public Sphere’ European Sociological Association – Antalya 2006
Barnard, S. Butler, K, Golding, P. and J. Maguire (2006) ‘News Media, Sport, and the Management of Contested Ideologies: The Athens Olympics 2004’ International Sociological Association – Durban 2006
Barnard, S., Butler, K, Golding, P. and J. Maguire (2006) ‘News coverage of the 2004 Olympic games’ ICA – Dresden 2006
Other publications;
‘Engineering, women in’ for the Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World
Refereed journal articles for;
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal
Science, Technology and Human Values.
European Journal of Engineering Education
International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology