Jo Armstrong
Educational Research
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr. Jo Armstrong completed his doctorate 'Classed and gendered experiences of employment and motherhood' at Lancaster in 2005. His background in Sociology and Women's Studies. Currently, he is working as a Research Associate at Lancaster University. Recently, he has been engaged in projects concerning policies to prevent rape and analysis of the gendered dimensions of trafficking in human beings. He is a member of the UNESCO Chair in Gender Research Group. He has authored more than 15 articles.
Research Interest
Gender equality; violence against women; gendered employment policy; gender relations in work (paid and unpaid); the intersection between social class and gender; and intersectionality in equality policies and institutions
Publications
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Walby S, Armstrong J.Intersectionality: multiple inequalities in social theory.Sociology.2012;46(2):224-240.Â
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Walby S, Strid S, Armstrong J. Intersectionality and the quality of the gender equality architecture.Social Politics.2012 Oct;19(4):446-481.
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Roberts C, Tyler I, Satchwell C, Armstrong J.Health social movements and the hybridisation of ‘cause regimes’: an ethnography of a British childbirth organisation.Social Movement Studies.2016 Jul;15(4):417-430.
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Holland NJ, Houghton A, Armstrong JE, Mashiter C. Accessing and assessing appropriate widening participation data: an exploration of how data are used and by whom. Studies in Continuing Education. 2017 Jun;39(2):214-233.
