This Vice Chancellors Scholarship will explore if students have gender-specific expectations to their teachers and therefore judge male and female teachers’ performances differently, although such differences may not be reflected in observable teaching behaviours. The project aims to investigate the ways in which students actually interpret and use teaching evaluation scales with a particular focus on possible gender-related biases. A better understanding of the social beliefs and knowledge that students apply when judging teaching quality can help devise evaluation methods that minimise implicit biases, improve gender equality and enhance accuracy. Such methods will also help to make teaching evaluations more comparable across teachers, disciplines and universities.
This exciting scholarship will draw on qualitative research methods (e.g., open-ended surveys or semi-structured interviews analysed with thematic or content analysis) as well as some statistical analyses. The successful applicant will have access to software to conduct online surveys for data collection in various formats, and, if desired, for video-based behavioural coding.
A full description is available at:-- Dr Jana Uher Senior Lecturer in Psychology PhD CPsychol AFBPsS PgCertHE AFHEA University of Greenwich Psychology, Social Work and Counselling Old Royal Naval College, Park Row London SE10 9LS, United Kingdom Tel +44(0)20-8331 9654 Email [log in to unmask] www.janauher.com www.researchonindividuals.org www.id-research.org www.primate-personality.netUniversity of Greenwich, a charity and company limited by guarantee, registered in England (reg. no. 986729). Registered office: Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS.