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Q&A with Professor Valerie Walkerdine

Professor Valerie Walkerdine is a distinguished research Professor Emerita in the School of Social Sciences Cardiff University, Wales. She has researched and written on gender for more than 40 years.

Valerie will be a Visiting Professor in the department during the Autumn and Winter Terms of the 2024-25 academic year.  

Valerie Walkerdine
It is crucial that gender studies is not supressed or abandoned. It continues to have a crucial and changing global role both intellectually and politically.

What will you be researching in your time here?

I have a and will be working on research on women and girls in Britain from the 1970s to the present.

I am producing an archive using qualitative and visual data collected between the 1970s and 1990s. I am also planning to reinterview as many of the original participants as possible, who were first seen at age 4 and are now around 50. The original sample is quite diverse an