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Ms Rajvir Gill

Job: Senior Lecturer

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: School of Applied Social Sciences

Address: Ð԰ɵç̨, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, United Kingdom

T: +44 0116 2506274

E: rajvir.cheema@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Rajvir Gill is a Senior Lecturer in The Division of Education. Her teaching areas include social justice, child development, technology and issues in contemporary education. She completed her degree in Education Studies from Ð԰ɵç̨ and secured a scholarship from the programme and went to continue her Master’s in Education Practice. She joined the team in 2015 and has completed her PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education and Training.

Her research interests include social justice: race and gender, identities. postionality and technology for educational purposes and assessment. Raj is currently working on her PhD (part-time) exploring the experiences of women in academia.

Publications and outputs

Gill, R. and Younie, S. (2021) ‘Evaluating eye tracking technology for assessment of students with profound and multiple learning difficulties’. Pixel-Bit. (62) 269-308.

Hall, R., Gill, R., and Gamsu, S. (2022). ‘Whiteness is an immoral choice’: The idea of the University at the intersection of crises. Special Issue: Higher Education in the Eye of the Covid-19 Storm, in Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research.

Bird, T and Gill, R. (2023). Understanding identity and positionality through student-staff interactions on an education studies undergraduate programme. In: Pulsford, M., Morris, L. and Purves, R. (eds.) Understanding Education Studies: critical issues and new directions. Routledge.

Research interests/expertise

  • Race
  • Gender
  • Feminism
  • Technology
  • Identities

Areas of teaching

  • Social Justice
  • Child Development
  • Education Studies 
  • Technology

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) Education Studies
  • MA Education Practice
  • PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education and Training
  • HEA Fellow

Courses taught

  • Historical and Contemporary Issues in Education
  • Dissertation 
  • Technological Transformation in Education 
  • Perspectives in Education 
  • Inclusion and Diversity 

Professional licences and certificates

PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education and Training

FHEA: Higher Education Fellowship 

Projects

 

Conference attendance

Gill, R. and Younie, S. (2020) ‘Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all’. BETT2020, London. 

Gill, R. and Younie, S. (2019) Technology for Assessment (Eye Gaze paper findings). TPEA (Technology, Pedagogy & Education Association), University of Winchester.

Gill, R. (2019) ‘Sisters on the margin: women of colour in academia’. RadicalÐ԰ɵç̨19. Ð԰ɵç̨. 

Consultancy work

Part of Ð԰ɵç̨ Research team supporting the ‘Hair Equality Report’ (response to The Education Inspection Framework 2019). 

Case studies

Media Coverage for 'Hair Equality Report' 2019