Dr Stephen Atherton

Lecturer in Education
Stephen gained a 1st class BA (hons) in Education and Geography and was awarded Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding for an MA (passed with distinction) and PhD (completed 2011), all at Aberystwyth University. Stephen returned to the School of Education and Lifelong Learning as a lecturer in 2009. Photograph of Dr Stephen Atherton .

Contact

Email: sta@aber.ac.uk
Office: School of Education and Lifelong Learning, Aberystwyth University,P5 Penglais Campus , Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. SY23 2UX.
Phone: 01970 (62)8601

Teaching Areas

ED33020: Communicating Science

ED11710: Study Skills

ED10810: Introduction to Working With Groups

ED30120: Critically Reflecting and Evaluating Learning and Skills

Contributes to ED20320: Research Methods

Research

Stephens research has predominantly been in areas of gender and the military from which he has drawn key educational, geographical and sociological themes. His research has particularly focused on areas such as home and the family, emotions and memory, children’s access to education and services, and adult education and training. Throughout these themes Stephen has engaged with a critical analysis of the social construction of gender, with specific emphasis on how masculinities are performed from a cultural repertoire of identities that are temporally and spatially contingent.

Stephens research is now developing into a number of strands, including;

  • The productions and performances of gendered identities in young children
  • Technology and pedagogy
  • Skills development in Higher Education
  • Adult Education and training
  • Children in Army families.



Staff Publications

  • Atherton, S (2009) Post- Military Identities: The Construction of Masculinities in Non-military Spaces, RGS-IBG Conference, Manchester, August 2009
  • Atherton, S (2008) Leaving the Army: The Negotiation of Masculinities upon re-entry into Civilian Life, University of Wales Gregynog Postgraduate Conference, May 2008
  • Atherton, S (2008) Transitions in Work Place Identities: Masculinities through the Armed Forces Resettlement Scheme, Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston MA, April 2008
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  • Atherton, S (2008) Leaving the Army: The Negotiation of Masculinities upon Re-entry into Civilian Life, Aberystwyth University Gender Studies Research Group, March 2008
  • Atherton, S (2007) Domesticating Military Masculinities: Home, Performance and the Negotiation of Identity, RGS-IBG Conference, London, August 2007
  • Atherton, S (2007) Domesticating Masculinity: Place, Performance and the Negotiation of Identity, Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, April 2007
  • Atherton, S (2006) Constructing Men, University of Wales Gregynog Postgraduate Conference, May 2006
  • Atherton, S (2006) Constructing Men, Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, March 2006
  • Atherton, S (2009) Domesticating Military Masculinities: Home, Performance and the Negotiation of Identity, Social and Cultural Geography, 10 (8) pp 821-836