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Molly Warrington

University Senior Lecturer; Fellow of Homerton College and Director of Studies, King's College

Human Geographer with particular interests in gender, social issues and the geographies of inequality.

Biography

Career

• 1993-2000: Principal Lecturer in Geography and Education, Homerton College, Cambridge
• 2001-present: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

Qualifications

• MA University of Cambridge
• PhD University of Cambridge

Research

I have research interests in the field of social geography, with the focus of my work coalescing around social inequalities, particularly in relation to gender, and having a strong policy orientation. I have undertaken research into homelessness and the geographies of domestic violence in Britain, looking particularly at women experiencing domestic abuse in East Anglia, the evolution of the refuge movement and changing patterns of refuge provision through time and space.

A further research focus has been on the gender gap in education. I have published widely in education journals and was co-director of Raising Boys' Achievement, a four-year research project (£444,000) funded by the then Department for Education and Skills. This project, working with around 60 schools across England, in a range of socio-economic contexts, looked at strategies addressing gender and achievement.

Research undertaken as part of this project spawned new work looking at the links between geography, social exclusion and class, and the extent to which education provides a route from exclusion to inclusion within Britain's 'new economy'. Liaison with project schools in the north-east enabled an exploration of aspirations among students from backgrounds without experience of higher education, whilst another project examined contemporary geographies of masculinity and femininity among groups of fifteen-year-olds in schools in rural, suburban, small city and inner city contects.

Currently my research is linked to the Centre for Commonwealth Education, where I am engaged in projects exploring aspects of gender and education in East Africa and the Caribbean. Working alongside colleagues in Kenyan and Ugandan Universities, one project focuses on why some girls stay in school to continue their education against all the odds. Another project, arising from a World Bank and Commonwealth Secretariat sponsored conference in Jamaica, is working with the Antiguan government on boys at risk.

Publications

Selected publications

• Warrington, M. and Younger, M. 2010 "Life is a tightrope": reflections on peer group inclusion and exclusion amongst adolescent girls and boys, Gender and Education. Published on 24 March 2010 (iFirst). DOI: 10.1080/09540251003674121
• Younger, M. and Warrington, M. 2009 Mentoring and target-setting in a secondary school in England: an evaluation of aims and benefits, Oxford Review, 35.2: 169-185
• Younger, M. and Warrington, M. 2008 The Gender Agenda in Primary Teacher Education in England: fifteen lost years? Journal of Education Policy, 23.4: 429-445
• Warrington, M. 2008 Decisions and Transitions: meeting the needs of the 'knowledge economy', Environment and Planning: Government and Policy, 26.5: 924-937
• Younger, M. and Warrington, M. 2008 The Gender Agenda in Primary Teacher Education in England: fifteen lost years? Journal of Education Policy 23.4: 429-445
• Younger, M. and Warrington, M. 2007 Single-Sex Classes in Co-educational Schools, Genderwatch Still Watching ..., Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books
• Younger, M. and Warrington, M. 2007 Closing the Gender Gap? Issues of gender equity in English secondary schools, Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education 28.2: 219-242
• Warrington, M. and Younger, M. 2007 Partnerships in Gender Research: Processes and Outcomes, Fou i Praksis 2006 Rapport fra konferanse om praksisrettet FoU i laererutdanning, Trondheim: Tapir adakdemisk forlag
• Younger, M. and Warrington, M. 2007 In the End is the Beginning: The Search for Gender Equity in English Education, in R. Teese, S. Lamb and M. Duru-Bellat (eds) Education and Equity: International Perspectives on Theory and Policy (Vol.2), Springer Publishing: Dortrecht
• Younger, M. and Warrington, M. 2006 Would Harry and Hermione Have Done Better in Single-Sex Classes? A Review of Single-Sex Teaching in Coeducational Secondary Schools in the United Kingdom, American Educational Research Journal 43.4: 579-620
• Warrington, M. and Younger M. 2006 Raising Boys' Achievement in Primary Schools: an holistic approach, Maidenhead: Open University Press
• Warrington, M. and Younger, M. 2006 Working on the inside: discourses, dilemmas and decisions, Gender and Education 18.3: 265-280
• Warrington, M. 2005 Mirage in the Desert? Access to educational opportunities in an area of social exclusion, Antipode, 37.4:796-816
• Younger, M. and Warrington, M. 2005 Raising Boys' Achievement in Secondary Schools: Issues, Dilemmas and Opportunities, Maidenhead: Open University Press
• Younger, M. and Warrington, M. 2005 Raising Boys' Achievement, London; Department for Education and Skills, Research Report 636
• Warrington, M. and Younger, M. 2003 "We Decided To Give It a Twirl": single-sex teaching in English Comprehensive Schools, Gender and Education 15.4: 339-350
• Warrington, M. 2003 Fleeing from fear: the role of refuges, Capital and Class, 80:123-150
• Warrington, M., Younger, M. and McLellan, R. 2003 "Under-achieving boys" in English primary schools: The Curriculum Journal 14.2: 139-156
• Younger, M. and Warrington, M. 2002 Single-sex teaching in a co-educational comprehensive school in England: an evaluation based upon students' performance and classroom interactions, British Educational Research Journal 28.3: 353-374
• Younger, M., Warrington, M. and McLellan, R. 2002 The "Problem" of "Under-achieving Boys": some responses from English secondary schools, School Leadership and Management 22.4: 387-403
• Warrington, M. and Younger, M. 2001 Single-sex Classes and Equal Opportunities for Girls and Boys: Perspectives through time from a mixed comprehensive school in England, Oxford Review of Education 27.3: 339-356
• Warrington, M. 2001 "I must get out": the geographies of domestic violence, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS26.3: 365:383
• Warrington, M., Younger, M. and Williams, J. 2000 'Student Attitudes, Image and the Gender Gap' British Educational Research Journal 26.3: 393-407
• Warrington, M. and Younger, M. 2000 The Other Side of the Gender Gap, Gender and Education 12.4: 493-508
• Warrington, M. and Younger, M. 1999 Perspectives on the gender gap in English secondary schools, Research Papers in Education 14.1: 51-77
• Younger, M. Warrington, M. and Williams, K. 1999 The Gender Gap and Classroom Interactions: reality and rhetoric? British Journal of Sociology of Education 20.3: 325-341
• Warrington, M. 1996 Running to stand still: housing the homeless in the 1990s Area 28.4: 471-481
• Younger, M. and Warrington, M. 1996 Differential Achievement of Girls and Boys at GCSE, British Journal of Sociology of Education 17.3: 299-313
• Warrington, M. 1995 Welfare pluralism or shadow state? The provision of social housing in the 1990s, Environment and Planning A 27: 1341-1360

Teaching

Geographical Tripos (Undergraduate level)

• Part IA Paper 2: People Space and Geographies of Difference
• Part IA Geographical Skills and Methods
• Part IB Paper 1: Ideas and Methods
• Part IB Paper 4: Geography and Public Policy
• Part II Human Geography II: The New Europe: People Places and Politics

M.Phil. in Geographical Research

• The Social Impacts of the 'New Economy'

Current Ph.D. students

• Kirsten Purcell: Supporting, Justifying & Contesting Labour Education Policy Discourses: The Case of Academies

External activities

• Editorial Board, Gender and Education