CLASA: Classroom Language and Student Aspirations

This project is linked to the above project, examining men in primary school teaching. It pieces together two unique areas of research of classroom linguistics and student aspirations, positioning UH as a lead institute in the understanding of gender linguistics and future career choice. It will provide novel insight in to the national/ international debate on the impact of gender role in job choice (male primary school teachers/ nurses or women in directorships or STEM subjects); ccontribute to campaigns to de-gender occupations, increase men in AHSSBL occupations in line with the Equality Challenge Unit expansion in 2015 to include AHSSBL jobs, and result in a Corpus publicized on Corpus Resource Database (currently, few databases exist in this area making it difficult for researchers to find such annotated texts).