Staff profiles
Pat Morton
Director Women in SET (WiSET) / BSc (Hons) MPhil EdDoc FRICS
Phone 0114 225 4695
Email p.m.morton@shu.ac.uk
Current work
STEM Subject Choice and Careers (Department for Education) - leader of a three year national project (2008–2011) as part of the STEM Programme to raise awareness and engagement in STEM subjects and careers, working with a wide range of key STEM, education, equality and diversity and career stakeholders to widen access of young people to STEM careers. Following on from the funded project, we are working with other stakeholders to ensure the STEM Careers legacy is built upon and grown.
Women in SET - our team work with employers, learning providers, careers professionals, STEM organisations, third sector groups as well as directly with women and girls locally, regionally and nationally to widen participation in STEM and built environment sectors on a range of projects.
The UKRC -
our team have been a core partner since its inception with the
lead organisation for the provision of advice, services and policy
consultation regarding the under-representation of women in science,
engineering and technology (SET). I also deliver STEM Gender
Equality Training to higher education institutions as an accredited
trainer with UKRC.
Equality and diversity in STEM - equality and
diversity was placed at the heart of the STEM careers project.
In setting up the online
stem e and d toolkit initially as part of the project we
are aiming to take that knowledge and expertise and develop it
further to support STEM education and careers in all strands
of equality and diversity working in partnership with others.
Research interests
Research interests include
- the experience of female students in STEM and built environment education
- intersectionality and social justice in education
- equality and diversity in STEM subjects and careers
- vocational education, work related learning and work experience
- action research and feminist methodologies
Research outputs: key publications since 2006
Morton, P, Goodwin, A, Kellond, A, Close, K and Collins, J (2011) Investing in the Future Construction Workforce: CSR and work experience placements, International Journal of Construction Management, Special edition, CSR in Construction
Morton, P and Tobbell, R (2011) Public body mentoring: encouraging women to play a part in SET decision making, International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, Vol 3, No 1
Morton, P and Collins, J (2010) Widening horizons in STEM work experience, Research Conference, Education and Employer Taskforce, University of Warwick, 15 October 2011
Morton, P, Collins, J and Eaton, D (2010) Pathways to success: positive steps into built environment higher education for women, Building a Better world, CIB congress 2010, University of Salford, Salford Quays, 10–13 May 2010
Eaton, Denise and Morton, Pat (2008) A minority report - presented at ARCOM Conference, Cardiff, September 2008
Morton, Pat and Wilkinson, Sara (2008) Feminist Research, chapter in Knight, Andrew and Ruddock, Les (Eds.) Advanced Research Methods in the Built Environment, Wiley Blackwell, UK
Morton, Pat, Ishaq, Rihana, Collins, Jill and Eaton, Denise (2008) The Changing Face of Engineering, presented at EE2008 International Conference on Innovation, Good Practice and Research in Engineering Education: Loughborough University on 14–16 July 2008
Wilkinson, Sara and Morton, Pat (2007) The emerging importance of feminist research paradigms in built environment research in Structural Survey Vol 25, No 5, p408–417
Atwal, P, Morton, P and Watts, N (2007) Mentoring in Built Environment Higher Education Courses, 23rd ARCOM Conference, University of Ulster, Belfast, 3–5 September 2007
Morton, P (2007) Women and the Cultural Domain of Built Environment Higher Education, Gender Equality in Higher Education Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 27–31 August 2007
Morton, P (2006) Culture and the student experience of women in Built Environment Higher Education, GASAT 12 conference, University of Brighton, 3–8 September 2006
Morton, P, Collins, J and Eaton, D (2006) Women in SET, paper presented at 2nd International conference on Interdisciplinarity in Education, ICIE 2006, 11–13 May 2006, Athens, Greece
Other publications
Encouraging equality and diversity; Working towards equal opportunities in STEM subjects and careers, Crown copyright, 2011
STEM Subject Choice and Careers, Lessons Learned Part 1 and 2, Sheffield Hallam University, 2011
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