Pippa Sterk
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Education
Research interests
- Diversity
- Education
Biography
Pippa is an interdisciplinary scholar, with a background in Film Studies and Gender Studies. Her doctoral thesis (funded through LISS-DTP) explored the experiences of volunteers working on LGBT+ initiatives within English universities, considering the evaluation of voluntary diversity work in the context of an increasingly neoliberal Higher Education sector. She is currently leading on a student/staff collaborative project which reflects on the possibilities for critical pedagogy in a marketised education system. She is enthusiastic about bringing amateur creative practice into research, working through zine-making and curation in her projects.
Research interests
- LGBT+/queer communities
- Communities of practice
- Creative methods
- Critical pedagogy
- Racialisation and national identity
Teaching
- BA Social Sciences
- Understanding the Social World (year 1)
- Transitions to Adulthood: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (year 3)
- Education MAs
- MA Seminar Series
- MA Education, Policy & Society
- The Social Context of Education
Research
Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC)
The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication is a major centre for descriptive linguistics, applied linguistics and language in education.
Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR)
The Centre for Public Policy Research is an interdisciplinary research centre research developing critical analyses of social change and social in/justice in education and other policy arenas, sectors and contexts to inform national and international policy debate, social activism, and personal, professional and organisational learning.
News
Introducing season two of the 'It's Just Research' podcast
‘It’s Just Research’ is back for a second season! In this minisode, we are reintroduced to our hosts Liam Cini O’Dwyer and Dr Pippa Sterk, as they catch-up on...
What does it mean to do critical research and engage with 21st century challenges? King's researchers give answers in new podcast
‘It’s Just Research - Critically questioning the world we live in’ is a new podcast made by researchers, with researchers, for researchers, and anyone keen to...
ECS academics and PhD students to share their expertise at the 2023 BERA annual conference
Researchers from across the School of Education, Communication & Society (ECS) will be presenting papers, sharing research findings, and leading symposia and...
Features
It's Just Research, Season 2 Ep.2: The necessity of unlearning with Dr Sophie Perry
Grind culture. Strict educational frameworks. It’s no wonder academics and researchers with activism at heart might struggle to strive towards a better...
It's Just Research, Ep. 4: 'Introducing... the team"
In this special episode of It's Just Research, we turn the microphone towards our own team, inviting you into the world behind the scenes at King's College...
It's Just Research, Ep.2: 'Teaching English as a form of political activism, with Mel Cooke'
For the second episode of ‘It’s Just Research: Critically questioning the world we live in’, we talked to Dr Mel Cooke, Senior Lecturer in ESOL & Applied...
It's Just Research, Ep. 1: 'Bringing politics into the science classroom, with Arthur Galamba'
In the first episode of ‘It’s Just Research: Critically questioning the world we live in’, we talked to Dr Arthur Galamba, Senior Lecturer in Science...
WPULL, the sociolinguistic paper series going polycentric
Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies is a working paper series started in 1997. Based at King’s, it went online in 2014, through the academia.edu...
Too big to mention: vulnerability in academia
PhD student Pippa Sterk asks how to foster vulnerability within academic spaces, while also taking care of one's own and other people’s boundaries.
Introducing the Language, Discourse and Communication PGR Blog
PhD candidates Angela Hakim and Pippa Sterk launch today the Language, Discourse, and Communication (LDC) PGR Blog. Here they explain why they decided to...
Lockdown Loneliness and LGBT+ Research
The (re-)surfacing of ‘the household’ as a conceptual unit under lockdown has once again shown the precarity of this construct, especially for LGBT+ people.
Research
Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC)
The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication is a major centre for descriptive linguistics, applied linguistics and language in education.
Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR)
The Centre for Public Policy Research is an interdisciplinary research centre research developing critical analyses of social change and social in/justice in education and other policy arenas, sectors and contexts to inform national and international policy debate, social activism, and personal, professional and organisational learning.
News
Introducing season two of the 'It's Just Research' podcast
‘It’s Just Research’ is back for a second season! In this minisode, we are reintroduced to our hosts Liam Cini O’Dwyer and Dr Pippa Sterk, as they catch-up on...
What does it mean to do critical research and engage with 21st century challenges? King's researchers give answers in new podcast
‘It’s Just Research - Critically questioning the world we live in’ is a new podcast made by researchers, with researchers, for researchers, and anyone keen to...
ECS academics and PhD students to share their expertise at the 2023 BERA annual conference
Researchers from across the School of Education, Communication & Society (ECS) will be presenting papers, sharing research findings, and leading symposia and...
Features
It's Just Research, Season 2 Ep.2: The necessity of unlearning with Dr Sophie Perry
Grind culture. Strict educational frameworks. It’s no wonder academics and researchers with activism at heart might struggle to strive towards a better...
It's Just Research, Ep. 4: 'Introducing... the team"
In this special episode of It's Just Research, we turn the microphone towards our own team, inviting you into the world behind the scenes at King's College...
It's Just Research, Ep.2: 'Teaching English as a form of political activism, with Mel Cooke'
For the second episode of ‘It’s Just Research: Critically questioning the world we live in’, we talked to Dr Mel Cooke, Senior Lecturer in ESOL & Applied...
It's Just Research, Ep. 1: 'Bringing politics into the science classroom, with Arthur Galamba'
In the first episode of ‘It’s Just Research: Critically questioning the world we live in’, we talked to Dr Arthur Galamba, Senior Lecturer in Science...
WPULL, the sociolinguistic paper series going polycentric
Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies is a working paper series started in 1997. Based at King’s, it went online in 2014, through the academia.edu...
Too big to mention: vulnerability in academia
PhD student Pippa Sterk asks how to foster vulnerability within academic spaces, while also taking care of one's own and other people’s boundaries.
Introducing the Language, Discourse and Communication PGR Blog
PhD candidates Angela Hakim and Pippa Sterk launch today the Language, Discourse, and Communication (LDC) PGR Blog. Here they explain why they decided to...
Lockdown Loneliness and LGBT+ Research
The (re-)surfacing of ‘the household’ as a conceptual unit under lockdown has once again shown the precarity of this construct, especially for LGBT+ people.