Dr Mark Vicars
		Phone: 99193210 Fax: Email:mark.vicars@vu.edu.au Office:26.102, Sunbury

• The Australian Association for Research in Education
• The American Educational Research Association
• The Australian Literacy Educators' Association
• The Australian Teacher Education Association
• The British Educational Research Association

Qualifications

• BA(Hons) Theatre Studies and English - University of Leicester, UK
• MA Theatre & Film - University of Sheffield,UK
• MEd (Literacy) - University of Sheffield,UK
• MA Educational Research Methodologies -University of Sheffield,UK
• PhD -University of Sheffield,UK
• P.G.C.E English & Drama- University of Hull, UK
• Diploma in Counselling Studies -University of Hull, UK
• Diploma in TESOL- Trinity College London.

• Communication and Social Action
• Making the Conditions for Learning
• Understanding Learning
  

• PLiteracy, Language and Identity in Communtiies of Practice
• Sexualities Equalities
• Qualitative Research Methodologies and Methods with a specific interest in narrative approaches, life history and autoethnography.
• Decolonizing research practices
• Research for social justice
• Queer Theory

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

• Vicars, M. (2005) ˜I have a feeling were not in Kansas anymore': a British gay educators reconstructed life-history account of school. Sex Education, Vol 5 (3) pp. 269-279.
• Vicars, M. (2006) "'Queer goings-on': An Autoethnographic account of the experiences and practice of performing a queer pedagogy" Auto/Biography, Vol 14 (1) pp. 21-40.
• Vicars, M. (2006) Who are you calling queer? Sticks and stones can break my bones but names will always hurt me. British Educational Research Journal, Volume 32, No 3, June 2006, pp. 347-361.
• Vicars, M. (2008) Textual Encounters and Pedagogic Interventions. Pedagogy, Culture and Society.

Book Chapters

• Vicars, M. (2005) `Cameo: Queer Matters in Methodology'. In: Wellington, J., Bathmaker, A.M., Hunt. C., McCulloch, G., Sikes, P. (Editors) Succeeding with your Doctorate. London: Sage.
• Vicars, M. (2007) Literacy and sexuality: The reading practices and identities of gay men. In: Bearne. E., & Marsh, J. (Editors) Literacy and Social Inclusion: Closing the Gap. London: Trentham.
• Vicars, M. ( 2008) Is it all about me? How Queer! In: P.Sikes & A. Potts (Editors) Researching Education from the Inside, Investigating Institutions from Within. London: Routledge.
• Vicars, M. (2008) Making a Visible Difference: Memories of Homophobia in Childhood. In: E. Atkinson & R. de Palma (Editors) Invisible Boundaries: Addressing Sexuality Equality in Children's worlds. London: Trentham.
• Vicars, M., & Senior, K. (2009, forthcoming) Queering the Quotidian: Yaoi, Narrative Pleasures and Reader Response. In: Levi, A., McHarry, M and Pagliasotti, D (Editors) Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys: Japanese Boys' Love Anime and Manga in a Globalised World, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co.

Conference Presentations

• Economic Social Research Council - Invisible boundaries: Addressing Sexualities in Children's Worlds (February 2006), The University of Nottingham, Encounters and Interventions: Memories of Homophobia in Further Education Students' Childhood.
• Spaces of Sexuality Unlimited Research (August 2006), The University of Brighton, 'I sort of read to be middle-class and to be gay'.
• Place-Based Sex/Sexualities and Relationship Education (May 2007), University of London, Institute of Education, 'Passing through Place: Literacy, Peers and Queers'.
• The Australian Association for the Teaching of English and the Australian Literacy Educators Association (Adelaide, July 2008) 'Anywhere but here: Literacy and Sexuality in Communities of Practice'.