Mr Luan Cassal

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Manchester Institute of Education, School of Environment, Education and Development

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cassal@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

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ORCID: 0000-0003-4237-3270

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Overview

I am a Brazilian educational psychologist, queer activist, PhD researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant. My current research discusses how ideas of time and future appears in British policies for trans and gender non-conforming adolescents. Previously, I studied gender and sexuality in schools, practices in educational psychology, public polies for LGBT population, and LGBTphobic violence in Brazil. I am convening the Discourse Unplugged Research Group, based at Manchester Institute of Education.

External positions

Lecturer in Psychology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

1 Mar 2015 → 31 Mar 2016

Educational Psychologist, Itaboraí City Council

23 Jun 2012 → 31 Jan 2018

Areas of expertise

BF Psychology - Social Psychology, Educational psychology, Discourse Analysis, Human Rights, LGBTIQ+, gender and sexuality studies
L Education (General) - Equality and Diversity, Queer pedagogies, Learning

Education / academic qualifications

2012 - Master of Research, Master in psychology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
2009 - Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Bsc in Psychology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Related information

Queering Education in Brazil

Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Special issue

Poor Queer Studies: confronting elitism in the university: by Matt Brim, Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2020, 247 pp., £26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1478008200: Ethnic and Racial Studies

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

Enfrentamento à LGBTIfobia, Afirmação Ético-política e Regulamentação Profissional: 20 anos da Resolução CFP nº 01/1999