Pauline Leonard
Pauline Leonard is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Web Science Institute and Director of the Work Futures Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK.
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Gender and Physics in the Academy
Theory, Policy and Practice in European Perspective
This interdisciplinary collection addresses women's under-representation in science across Europe, focusing on physics and its gender imbalance. Emphasising social perspectives over biological explanations, it evaluates policy solutions and shares personal life stories, providing key insights into the physics world.
Getting In and Getting On in the Youth Labour Market
Governing Young People’s Employability in Regional Context
By Pauline Leonard and Rachel Wilde
Based on up to date qualitative and ethnographic research, and using a Foucauldian theoretical approach, this book examines youth education-to-work transitions in the UK and demonstrates how different employability schemes work in practice for young people from varying social and regional backgrounds.