Cardiff School of Social Sciences

Research Interests

Emma Renold is Reader in Childhood Studies at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales. She is the author of Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities (2005), the co-founder of youngsexualities.org and co-editor of the journal Gender and Education. Working with feminist poststructuralist and posthumanist theories her research explores young gendered and sexual subjectivities across diverse institutional sites and public spaces. Her current research project foregrounds bodies, affect, subjectivity and movement in a community multi-media ethnography of girls’ and boys’ negotiations of place and space in a semi-rural post-industrial locale - KLiC Project – Young People and Place.

Research interests include:

Participatory methodologies with children and young people
Ethnography, creative methods, multi-media/multi-sensory, critical reflexivity, psycho-social.

Young masculinities, femininities and sexualities
Subjectivity;  relationship cultures;  sexualisation debates; gender and education; 'real'/virtual socialities; locality and spatiality.

Marginalisation, pathologisation and young abject subjects
Children in/ leaving care; children, social class and poverty;  gendered/sexualised bullying and violence.

Critical theory
New materialist feminist theory, queer theory, feminist poststructuralism, post-humanism

Current Writing

Sexualisation, sexual violence and schooling for a forthcoming themed issue in Gender and Education (with Jessica Ringrose)

Current Research

Gender, Power and Conflict in Young Children’s Relationship Cultures, (ALLIES Project - EU-funded DAPHNE III programme)

Young People and Place

Forthcoming Conferences

Pornification: Complicating Debates about the Sexualization of Culture

Using visual methods in the communication of research findings

Forthcoming Special Issues

Feminism, Contemporary Girlhood and Sexualization, Feminist Theory (2013)

Related Links

• Academia.edu
• Youngsexualities.org
• Childhood Research Group
• Gender and Sexualities Research Group
• Gender and Education Journal
• Gender and Education Association
• ONSCENITY Research Network
• Pornification: Complicating Debates about the Sexualization of Culture, ESRC seminar series
• Girls in Education 3-16 ESRC seminar series
• Multimodal Ethnography

Lecture Video

ESRC Seminar series: 'Pornified? Complicating the debates about the sexualisation of culture'
Seminar 5: Girls, Sexuality and Sexualisation: Beyond spectacle and sensationalism.
Dr Emma Renold and Dr. Jessica Ringrose, Institute of Education, University of London:
Theorising and researching teen-girls’ sexual cultures in an era of ‘sexualisation’: beyond the moral panic.