Dr Helen Underhill
Lecturer (English)
My profile
Teaching
Postgraduate teaching
PGCE Secondary Education (English)
PGCE Secondary Education Professional Practice
MA Education
Subject areas
Secondary English Education
Research outputs
My research focuses on intersections of Education, learning and Development and Humanitarianism. This includes critical and radical education, informal learning in community organisations and social movements, and learning within low-income informal settlements. I am building on my doctoral research through developing understandings of conflict and agonistic pedagogies, and intersections of knowledge, gender and identity in contexts of vulnerability.
In 2018, I was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant to develop work in Lebanon on gender and fire education in informal settlements. I am also working with a low-income community in South Africa on understanding conflict as a process of learning that can reduce gender-based violence.
Within formal education, I have a range of interests and projects underway: I am developing work on reflective practice and knowledge production among trainee teachers and lecturers, and how teachers work with ideas of development, humanitatarianism and social justice in their practice. I am also interested in professional development for teachers in developing contexts and gendered dimensions of schooling.
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Chapters in books
Underhill, H.M. (2016) 'Learning in the Praxis of Diaspora Politics: Understanding Development as Social Justice.' Education, Learning and the Transformation of Development. Routledge,
Underhill, H.M. (2015) 'Translation and Diaspora Politics: Narrating the Struggle at Home and Abroad.' Translating Dissent Voices From and With the Egyptian Revolution. Routledge,
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Journal articles
Hirst, L., Underhill, H. (2023) 'Fire Safety in Informal Settlements: A Gendered Framework of Fire Justice.' Fire Technology,
Underhill, H. (2021) 'Becoming an activist-scholar through pedagogy of the oppressed: An autoethnographic account of engaging with freire as a teacher and researcher.' Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 61(3) pp. 398-420.
Underhill, H. (2019) 'Agonistic possibilities for global unlearning: constraints to learning within global citizenship education and social movements.' International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 11(2) pp. 204-218.
Underhill, H. (2019) 'Learning in social movements: Emotion, identity and Egyptian diaspora becoming ‘logically and emotionally invested’ in the continuing struggle.' Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 59(3) pp. 330-353.
Underhill, H. (2019) 'Learning in social movements: Emotion, identity and egyptian diaspora becoming ‘logically and emotionally invested’ in the continuing struggle.' Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 59(3) pp. 365-388.
Underhill, H. (2016) 'Learning in revolution: perspectives on democracy from Egypt's UK-based diaspora activists.' Contemporary Levant, 1(1) pp. 25-37.
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Conference papers
Hanley, C., Underhill, H., Ramsay, A., Overland, E., Patterson, R., Ariza, P., Baynham, J., Pawlik, P., Dunk, R. (2018) 'Exploring Higher Education: An investigation into teacher educators’ conceptualisations of learning in university..' In British Educational Research Association conference. Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK,