College of Graduate Studies
Prof Dennis Francis
| College of Graduate Studies | |
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| Professor Extraordinarius | |
| E-mail: | Dennis.francis@glasgow.ac.uk |
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Professor Dennis Francis is a South African scholar and activist whose work engages with questions related to race, gender, sexualities, and education. Professor Francis is a former dean of education and currently a professor in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK. Their research, located in the sociology of education, focuses on how educational structures, discourses, and practices reproduce cisheteronormativity and social inequality in education, and how these are also resisted and challenged. Their most recent books are Troubling the Teaching and Learning of Gender and Sexuality Diversity in South African Education (Queer Studies and Education – Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Queer Activism in South African Education: Disrupting Cis(hetero)normativity in Schools (Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2023). Professor Francis is also the recipient of several research and distinguished teaching awards. They serve on several international editorial boards, including the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education, Sex Education, International Journal of Curriculum and Social Justice, Educational Research for Social Change, International Journal of LGBTQ+ Youth Studies, and the Journal of Homosexuality.