Ms Rajvir Gill

Rajvir Gill is a Senior Lecturer in The Division of Education. Her teaching areas include social justice, child development, technology and issues in contemporary education. She completed her degree in Education Studies from De Montfort University and secured a scholarship from the programme and went to continue her Master’s in Education Practice. She joined the team in 2015 and has completed her PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education and Training.

Her research interests include social justice: race and gender, identities. postionality and technology for educational purposes and assessment. Raj is currently working on her PhD (part-time) exploring the experiences of women in academia.

Gill, R. and Younie, S. (2021) ‘Evaluating eye tracking technology for assessment of students with profound and multiple learning difficulties’. Pixel-Bit. (62) 269-308.

Hall, R., Gill, R., and Gamsu, S. (2022). ‘Whiteness is an immoral choice’: The idea of the University at the intersection of crises. Special Issue: Higher Education in the Eye of the Covid-19 Storm, in Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research.

Bird, T and Gill, R. (2023). Understanding identity and positionality through student-staff interactions on an education studies undergraduate programme. In: Pulsford, M., Morris, L. and Purves, R. (eds.) Understanding Education Studies: critical issues and new directions. Routledge.

• Race
• Gender
• Feminism
• Technology
• Identities

• Social Justice
• Child Development
• Education Studies 
• Technology

• BA (Hons) Education Studies
• MA Education Practice
• PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education and Training
• HEA Fellow

• Historical and Contemporary Issues in Education
• Dissertation 
• Technological Transformation in Education 
• Perspectives in Education 
• Inclusion and Diversity 

PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education and Training

FHEA: Higher Education Fellowship 

Gill, R. and Younie, S. (2020) ‘Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all’. BETT2020, London. 

Gill, R. and Younie, S. (2019) Technology for Assessment (Eye Gaze paper findings). TPEA (Technology, Pedagogy & Education Association), University of Winchester.

Gill, R. (2019) ‘Sisters on the margin: women of colour in academia’. RadicalDMU19. De Montfort University. 

Part of DMU Research team supporting the ‘Hair Equality Report’ (response to The Education Inspection Framework 2019). 

Media Coverage for 'Hair Equality Report' 2019