Higher education physics has long been a field with a disproportionately skewed representation in terms of gender, class, and ethnicity. Responding to this challenge, this study explores the trajectories into higher education physics, with a particular focus on “unexpected” physics students. Drawing on semi-structured timeline-guided interviews with 20 students enrolled in university physics...
The number of women has increased greatly in higher education over the last decades but women are still underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education programs. This gender difference has been reported and analysed, and many recommendations put forward and interventions tried focusing on different issues, but the effects and changes are slow. In our...
