Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas

• Critical higher education studies
• Gender and inequalities
• Research Methodologies

• PhD Birkbeck, University of London
• M.Ed Open University
• BA (Hons) University of Manchester

• 2019 - Impact of gender equity interventions on work histories and career trajectories of academics in ‘Athena SWAN’ institutions. (Co-investigator)
• 2018-19 - The gword tour (Principal Investigator)
• 2016-2018 - Gender(s) At Work (Principal Investigator)
• 2012-2015 - Rethinking Student Belonging in Higher Education  (Principal Investigator) 

Books

Carruthers Thomas, K. (2108) Rethinking Student Belonging in Higher Education: From Bourdieu to Borderlands, Abingdon: Routledge.

Jackson, S., Malcolm, I, and Thomas, K. (eds) (2011) Gendered Choices: Learning, Work, Identities in Lifelong Learning, Dordrecht: Springer Academic Press. 

Journal Articles

Carruthers Thomas, K. (2017) ‘Towards a Methodology: Organisational Cartographies’ International Journal of Professional Management: Special Issue.

Carruthers Thomas, K. (2015) ‘Rethinking Belonging through Bourdieu, diaspora and the spatial. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning 17:1, 37-49.

Book Chapters

Carruthers Thomas, K. (forthcoming) ‘Using Massey in spatial storytelling’ in M. Murphy et al (eds) Theorising the university: Critical Perspectives on institutional research. London: Routledge

Carruthers Thomas, K. (forthcoming) The xCHANGE festival: small x, big CHANGE? In M.Mahat (ed) Women Thriving in Academia, Emerald Publishing.

Carruthers Thomas, K. (2019) ‘Gender as a Geography of Power’ in G. Crimmins (ed.) Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Carruthers Thomas, K. (2019) ‘Retention Matters’ in K.Krcmar (ed.) The Inclusivity Gap, Inspired by Learning.

Other Media

Carruthers Thomas, K. (2019) Glass, Sociological Fiction Zine [online] Available from www.sofizine.com (Poetry)

Carruthers Thomas, K. (2019) Redrawing Research Methods and Rewriting Data. SRHE Blog 23 June, 

Carruthers Thomas, K. (2019) Getting Graphic: Ways of Thinking. The Sociological Review Blog. 13 April 

Carruthers Thomas, K. (2018) My Brilliant Career? An Investigation. (Graphic Essay)

Carruthers Thomas, K. (2018) The Accidental Cartoonist: Learning the Art of the Graphic Essay. The Sociological Review Blog.28 March