Overview
Background
Associate Professor Stahl's research interests focus on the relationship between education and society, socio-cultural studies of education, student identities, equity/inequality, and social change. Currently, his research projects and publications encompass theoretical and empirical studies of youth, sociology of schooling in a neoliberal age, gendered subjectivities, equity and difference as well as educational reform.
To date his scholarship has focused upon:
· Social and educational inequalities
· Learner Identities
· Student mobilities
· Masculinities
· Widening participation
He holds a PhD in Education (University of Cambridge), a Masters degree in International Education (New York University) and a Bachelors Degree in Secondary Education and English (Indiana University). He is a member and former SIG Convener for the Australian Association of Researchers in Education (AARE) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Associate Professor Stahl was awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council (2017-2019) where he researched the relationship between extreme disadvantage, masculinities and widening participation (DE170100510). In 2019, he was ranked by The Australian newspaper as one of the top 40 researchers in Australia who were less than 10 years into their career. Dr. Stahl is particularly interested in qualitative research methods, visual research methods and ethnography. At the University of Queensland, Dr. Stahl's teaches at the Undergraduate, Masters and PhD levels.
Recently, he was awarded two ARC Discovery projects: Including the voice of boys and young men in their health and well-being education (DP250102623) and Investigating how boys and young men experience their digital lives (DP250104014).
His research has been published in a range of international journals, including the Pedagogy, Culture and Society, the Journal of Educational Policy and Gender and Education. His books include Identity, neoliberalism and aspiration: educating white working-class boys (2015, Routledge), Ethnography of a neoliberal school: building cultures of success (2018, Routledge), Working-class masculinities in Australian higher education: policies, pathways and progress (2021, Routledge) and Gendering the First-in-Family Experience: Transitions, Liminality, Performativity (2022, Routledge) co-authored with Sarah McDonald.
He has held leadership positions in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE).
Prior to working as a researcher, Stahl taught in secondary schools in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Availability
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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor, Indiana University
- Masters (Coursework), New York University
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Research interests
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Sociology of Education
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Educational Inequalities
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Widening Participation and Higher Education
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Masculinities
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Boyhood/Adolescence
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Countering Violent Extremism
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Pre-service teacher education
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Male celebrities, masculinities and the promotion of mental health literacy: comparing the Anglophone and Sinophone pop culture landscape
Stahl, Garth and Zhao, Yang (2024). Male celebrities, masculinities and the promotion of mental health literacy: comparing the Anglophone and Sinophone pop culture landscape. NORMA, 1-20. doi: 10.1080/18902138.2024.2439196
2024
Journal Article
Beyond Mental and Manual: Investigating the Historical and Contemporary Borderlands Between Working-Class and Middle-Class Masculinities
Stahl, Garth and Asplund, Stig-Börje (2024). Beyond Mental and Manual: Investigating the Historical and Contemporary Borderlands Between Working-Class and Middle-Class Masculinities. Sociological Research Online. doi: 10.1177/13607804241285620
2024
Journal Article
Adaptation, change and reaffirmation: investigating the limits of young working-class men adapting to elite higher education institutions
Stahl, Garth D and Nguyen, Tin Pham (2024). Adaptation, change and reaffirmation: investigating the limits of young working-class men adapting to elite higher education institutions. Research Papers in Education, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/02671522.2024.2394045
2024
Journal Article
Understanding the Role of Masculinity through the Perspectives of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Intervention Practitioners Engaged in Men’s (de)Radicalization
Stahl, Garth, Adams, Ben and Oberg, Glenys (2024). Understanding the Role of Masculinity through the Perspectives of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Intervention Practitioners Engaged in Men’s (de)Radicalization. Gender Issues, 41 (4) 19. doi: 10.1007/s12147-024-09338-4
2024
Journal Article
African students consuming the Chinese higher education market: the role of pre-mobility capital(s) in transnational social reproduction strategies
Xu, Wen and Stahl, Garth (2024). African students consuming the Chinese higher education market: the role of pre-mobility capital(s) in transnational social reproduction strategies. Globalisation, Societies and Education, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/14767724.2024.2398205
2024
Journal Article
Navigating the cultural adaptation of a US-based online mental health and social support program for use with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in the Northern Territory, Australia: Processes, outcomes, and lessons
Opozda, Melissa J., Bonson, Jason, Vigona, Jahdai, Aanundsen, David, Paradisis, Chris, Anderson, Peter, Stahl, Garth, Watkins, Daphne C., Black, Oliver, Brickley, Bryce, Canuto, Karla J., Drummond, Murray J. N., Miller, Keith F., Oth, Gabriel, Petersen, Jasmine, Prehn, Jacob, Raciti, Maria M., Robinson, Mark, Rodrigues, Dante, Stokes, Cameron, Canuto, Kootsy and Smith, James A. (2024). Navigating the cultural adaptation of a US-based online mental health and social support program for use with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in the Northern Territory, Australia: Processes, outcomes, and lessons. International Journal for Equity in Health, 23 (1) 165, 1-15. doi: 10.1186/s12939-024-02253-w
2024
Book
Vulnerability, extremism, and schooling: restorative practices, policy enactment, and managing risk
Stahl, Garth, Adams, Ben, Baak, Melanie and Schulz, Samantha (2024). Vulnerability, extremism, and schooling: restorative practices, policy enactment, and managing risk. London, United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield.
2024
Journal Article
“If you don’t have rapport, you haven’t got anything really”: affective intensities, relationality and rapport building in the work of CVE Intervention Practitioners
Stahl, Garth, Adams, Ben and Oberg, Glenys (2024). “If you don’t have rapport, you haven’t got anything really”: affective intensities, relationality and rapport building in the work of CVE Intervention Practitioners. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/17467586.2024.2380687
2024
Journal Article
The Necessity of Trust: Young Men from Low Socio-Economic Backgrounds Reflecting on What Counts in Career Counselling at the Secondary Level
Stahl, Garth, McDonald, Sarah, Nguyen, Tin and Fairbairn, Kirsten (2024). The Necessity of Trust: Young Men from Low Socio-Economic Backgrounds Reflecting on What Counts in Career Counselling at the Secondary Level. British Journal of Educational Studies, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-24. doi: 10.1080/00071005.2024.2374073
2024
Journal Article
Investigating the development of peer-led asynchronous digitally mediated feedback in higher education: three case studies
Stahl, Garth, Oberg, Glenys, Fairbairn, Kirsten, McLay, Kate, Noble, Christy, Sale, Martin, Mandrusiak, Allison, MacMahon, Stephanie, Findlay, Wendy and Zafar, Sobia (2024). Investigating the development of peer-led asynchronous digitally mediated feedback in higher education: three case studies. Reflective Practice, 25 (5), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/14623943.2024.2372882
2024
Journal Article
Entrepreneurial working-class masculinities and curating the corporeal: social media influencers, porntrepreneurs and the case of OnlyFans
Stahl, Garth and Zhao, Yang (2024). Entrepreneurial working-class masculinities and curating the corporeal: social media influencers, porntrepreneurs and the case of OnlyFans. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print). doi: 10.1108/ijge-03-2024-0086
2024
Journal Article
Boyhood in 21st Century Educative Contexts
Stahl, Garth, Keddie, Amanda and Scholes, Laura (2024). Boyhood in 21st Century Educative Contexts. International Journal of Educational Research, 127 102403, 102403. doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2024.102403
2024
Journal Article
“I come from a poor family”: deciphering how working-class young men aspire to and experience their journeys in STEM higher education
Stahl, Garth, Fugurally, Shaneeza, Hu, Yating, Nguyen, Tin and McDonald, Sarah (2024). “I come from a poor family”: deciphering how working-class young men aspire to and experience their journeys in STEM higher education. The Australian Educational Researcher. doi: 10.1007/s13384-024-00724-1
2024
Journal Article
‘Girls do this, guys do that’: how first-in-family students negotiate working-class gendered subjectivities during a time of social change
McDonald, Sarah and Stahl, Garth (2024). ‘Girls do this, guys do that’: how first-in-family students negotiate working-class gendered subjectivities during a time of social change. The Australian Educational Researcher, 51 (3), 973-993. doi: 10.1007/s13384-024-00717-0
2024
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Investigating the role of identity versatility in the discursive production of working-class boyhood, learner identities and educational engagement
Stahl, Garth, Asplund, Stig-Börje and Scholes, Laura (2024). Investigating the role of identity versatility in the discursive production of working-class boyhood, learner identities and educational engagement. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 46 (4), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/10714413.2024.2326391
2024
Book
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Bourdieu and Educational Research
Garth Stahl, Guanglun Michael Mu, Pere Ayling and Elliot B. Weininger eds. (2024). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Bourdieu and Educational Research. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2024
Book Chapter
Introduction: applying Bourdieu in educational research
Stahl, Garth, Mu, Guanglun Michael, Ayling, Pere and Weininger, Elliot B. (2024). Introduction: applying Bourdieu in educational research. The Bloomsbury handbook of Bourdieu and educational research. (pp. 1-17) edited by Garth Stahl, Guanglun Michael Mu, Pere Ayling and Elliot B. Weininger. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
2024
Book Chapter
Coupling Bourdieu and Barad: exploring the vitality of cross-cutting conceptual meetings
Burnard, Pamela and Stahl, Garth (2024). Coupling Bourdieu and Barad: exploring the vitality of cross-cutting conceptual meetings. The Bloomsbury handbook of Bourdieu and educational research. (pp. 47-59) edited by Garth Stahl, Guanglun Michael Mu, Pere Ayling and Elliot B. Weininger. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
2024
Journal Article
‘I’d rather not bring any attention to myself’: shyness and belonging(s) during the first-year university experience
Stahl, Garth and McDonald, Sarah (2024). ‘I’d rather not bring any attention to myself’: shyness and belonging(s) during the first-year university experience. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 29 (1), 45-63. doi: 10.1080/13596748.2023.2285629
2024
Journal Article
The dialogical self and the multiplicity of I-positions: Experiences of becoming a teacher in the international practicum
Xu, Wen, Stahl, Garth and Poole, Adam (2024). The dialogical self and the multiplicity of I-positions: Experiences of becoming a teacher in the international practicum. Culture & Psychology, 30 (4), 887-902. doi: 10.1177/1354067X241226453
Funding
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Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
Investigating the role of Disillusionment in Early Career Teacher Experiences
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Amy Rouse
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Doctor Philosophy
Considering a model for understanding the Australian Extreme Right-Wing
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Mair Underwood, Dr Jonah Rimer
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Doctor Philosophy
Bridging the gender gap in mental health literacy
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Exploring Educator Opportunities for Promoting Gender Equity in Australian Single-sex Boy Schools
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Damon Thomas
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Master Philosophy
Anti-pluralism and the Populist Threat to Equality in Education The Case for a Collaborative Approach to School Based Intervention Strategies
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Bob Lingard
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Doctor Philosophy
Bridging the gender gap in mental health literacy
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Transformational learning in practice the exploration of teachers and school leaders role in the design of professional learning
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Terrance Fitzsimmons
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Doctor Philosophy
Expectations vs Experiences: Exploring Disillusionment in Early Career Teachers
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Amy Rouse
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Doctor Philosophy
Gender Segregation of STEM Higher Education in China: A Sociological Perspective
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Alice Campbell, Dr Rob Rouse
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Doctor Philosophy
Critical thinking reflected in the academic writing of Chinese and Australian PhD students
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robyn Gillies
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Doctor Philosophy
Transformational learning in practice the exploration of teachers and school leaders role in the design of professional learning
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Terrance Fitzsimmons
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Doctor Philosophy
Critical Literacy Education in Papua New Guinea: Investigating Challenges in Preservice Teacher Education in the 21st Century
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Kate McLay, Professor Rhonda Faragher
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Changing Masculinities and Moral Landscapes among Young Uzbek Men in Uzbekistan
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Jenny Munro
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- masculinities
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- social justice
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