Dr Gill Clarke, MBE Cert Ed BEd PGCE(RES METHS) MA (Ed) PhD

Administrative responsibility	Head of IPD Research Centre Programme Director EdD
Office phone	+44 (0)23 8059 2977
Internal extension	22977
Email	gmc@soton.ac.uk
Room number	32/2059

Expertise / Academic Interests

Biography and narrative
Life stories: Women war artists and Women's Land Army
Physical Education and Sport Education
Sexuality and gender issues

SOE Research Centre Membership

Institutional & Professional Development

Programme Tutor

1. Doctorate of Education (EdD)

Other Courses

1. Dissertation through Flexible Study MA (Ed)
2. M Phil in Research Methodology
3. Doctorate of Education (EdD)
4. Research Training Programme

Principal Publications

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Significant Publications
Clarke, Gill (2006) Sexuality and physical education. In, Kirk, David, McDonald, Doune and O’Sullivan, Mary (eds.) Handbook for Research in Physical Education. London, UK, Sage, 723-739.
Clarke, Gill (2004) Threatening space: (physical) education and homophobic body work. In, Evans, J., Davies, B. and Wright, J. (eds.) Body knowledge and control. Studies in the sociology of physical education and health. London, UK, Routledge, 191-203.
Clarke, Gill and Quill, Mandy (2003) Researching sport education in action: a case study. European Physical Education Review, 9, (3), 253-266.
Cockburn, Claudia and Clarke, Gill (2002) "Everybody's looking at you!": Girls negoiating the 'femininity deficit' they face in physical education. Women's Studies International Forum, 25, (6), 651-665.
Books
Clarke, Gill (2008) The Women's Land Army: a portrait, Bristol, UK, Sansom, 216pp.
Clarke, Gill (2006) Evelyn Dunbar: war and country, Bristol, UK, Sansom & Company, 224pp.

Book Chapters
Clarke, Gill (2007) "The Women's Land Army and its Recruits, 1939-50." In, Short, Brian, Watkins, Charles and Martin, John (eds.) The Front Line of Freedom: British Farming in the Second World War. Exeter, UK, British Agricultural History Society, 101-116. (Agricultural History Review).
Clarke, G. (2002) 'Difference matters: sexuality and physical education', in D. Penney (Ed) Gender and Physical Education: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions, London: Routledge. pp.41-56
Journal Articles
Jones, Roger and Clarke, Gill (2008) The school experiences of same-sex attracted students in the 14- to 19- year-old secondary sector in England: within and beyond the safety and tolerance framework. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 19, (3/4), 119-138. (doi:10.1080/10538720802161359)
Clarke, Gill and Webb, Ida M. (2007) Marsh, Irene Mabel (1875–1938). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/93053)
Clarke, Gill and Webb, Ida M. (2007) Wright, Gladys Frances Miriam (1891–1980). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/93577)
Curtin, Michael and Clarke, Gill (2005) Listening to Young People with Physical Disabilities' Experiences of Education. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 52 (3), 195-214. (doi: 10.1080/10349120500252817)
Clarke, Gill and Webb, Ida M. (2005) Anstey, Rhoda (1865–1936). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50290)
Clarke, Gill and Webb, Ida M. (2005) Wilkie [formerly Wilke], Dorette (1867–1930). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63387)
Penney,D., Clarke,G. and Kinchin, G. (2002) Developing Physical Education as a 'connective specialism': Is sport education the answer? Sport, Education and Society 7(1), 55-64
Selection of International Conference Papers
Boorman, Georgie, Clarke, Gill and Nind, Melanie (2009) In their own words: the missing voices of girls with behavioural, social and emotional difficulties. In, Gender and Education Association 7th International Conference, London, UK, 25-27 Mar 2009. , 18pp.
Other
Clarke, G. (2000) Crossing borders: lesbian physical education students and the struggles for sexual spaces, in S. Scraton and B. Watson (eds) Sport, Leisure and Gendered Spaces, Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association.

Funded Research

Education and Vocational Training: A Biographical Study of Women's War Time Work with the Women's Land Army

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