Máirtín Mac an Ghaill is áirtía social and educational theorist. He is the author of The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexualities and Schooling, The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Gender and Education (ed) (with Madeline Arnot), Education and Masculinities and Contemporary Racisms and Ethnicities.
He did his undergraduate degree at University of Liverpool and his MSc and PhD at the University of Aston. He was professor at the University of Birmingham, University of Sheffield and Newcastle University.
Academic interests
His research interests that are interrelated are:
Developing a critical understanding of teaching and learning
Changing pedagogies and policies:achieving social equity
Rethinking future work on education
He has recently completed Education and Masculinities: Social, Cultural and Global Transformations. He has recently been a joint director of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded project exploring Bangladeshi young people, ethnicity and transition to adulthood. He is currently working with postgraduate students from China, Taiwan and Japan on: global masculinities, migration, cultural identity and diversity.
Currently at Newman University he is a professor and the Director of Graduate School.
Selected publications
Books
Lin, X.; Haywood, C. and Mac an Ghaill, M. (2016) East Asian Men: Masculinity, Sexuality and Desire. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Man an Ghaill, M. and Haywood, C. (2017) Muslim Students, Education and Neo-liberalism: Schooling as 'Suspect Community'. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Recent chapters in books
Haywood, C. and Mac an Ghaill, M. (2015) ‘Critical Masculinity Studies’, in S. Sim (ed.) European Companion to Critical Theory. London: Routledge. Mac an Ghaill, M. & Haywood, C. (2016) (Dis)locating masculinities: ethnographic reflections of British Muslim young men. In Karioris, F. et al. (eds.) Masculinities under Neoliberalism. (pp. 198–212). London: Zed Books. Chen, B. and Mac an Ghaill, M. (2016) Negotiating family/filial responsibilities: reflexivity, tradition, and Taiwanese (young) professional men. In Lin X. et al. (ends.) East Asian Men: Masculinity, Sexuality and Desire. (pp. 51–68), London: Palgrave. Mac an Ghaill, M. & Haywood, C. (2017) Educating Muslim Students: Late modernity, masculinity, inclusion/exclusion and the neoliberal school. In Mac an Ghaill, M. and Haywood, C. (eds.) Muslim Students, Education and Neoliberalism. (pp. 199–216) London: Palgrave. Lin, X.; Mac an Ghaill, M. (2017) (Re)-masculinizing ‘suzhi jiaoyu’ (education for quality): aspirational values of modernity in neoliberal China. In Stahl, G. et al. (eds.) Masculinity and Aspiration: International Perspectives in the Era of Neoliberal Education. London: Routledge.