Providing current research to our members is a strategic priority for the Alliance. We deliver access to valuable resources and anaylsis of the latest research findings relevant to educators of girls. Subscription-only academic research articles, as well as open access articles and reports by governments, universities and major organisations are summarised for members, highlighting themes and topics of particular relevance to the education of girls, including academic performance, mental health, leadership, neuroscience, single-sex education, STEM, wellbeing, and work and careers.
With more than 500 research abstracts, including over 160 related to single-sex education, many of which summarise research from subscription-only academic journals, the Alliance Research Library provides an unparalleled source of information on single-sex education for girls.
Library access and membership:
Free library membership and access is available for all staff of Alliance member schools, simply complete the access request form to receive your personalised login.
Annual library subscription for non-Alliance members costs AUD550
$550.00BUY
For more information or member access, please contact Loren Bridge (t) +61 7 5521 0749 (e) [email protected]
The focus on mental health concerns for children and young people has been growing since the early 2000s. Researchers from the University of Exeter have drawn together multiple articles addressing girls’ mental health and its relationship to academic achievement in response to the “mental health ‘crisis’ or ‘epidemic’ that is…
read more –›It has long been recognised that when STEM subjects are taught in co-ed classrooms, girls can be underrepresented when compared to their male peers. This extends beyond the student cohort, and female teaching staff are underrepresented in science in “many European, American and African countries” (Mim, 2022, p. 80). This…
read more –›There is a societal stereotype that suggests girls are less interested in computer science and engineering compared to boys. Researchers from the Universities of Houston and Washington in the United State of America (USA) have undertaken a project to investigate the impact of these gender interest stereotypes on girls and…
read more –›Eirini Flouri, Efstathios Papachristou and Heather Joshi (2022, p. 343) from the University College of London Institute of Education have undertaken a study to question if “adolescents’ style of decision-making is related to the sex composition of their friendship groups”. Peer influence in adolescence has received significant attention in research.…
read more –›Researchers from the Australian National University have completed a research study that considered ‘the experiences of home schooling caregivers at multiple time-points during the pandemic’ (Morse et al., 2022, p. 1). This study was based on experiences during school closures that initiated remote learning during 2020 and 2021. Participants in…
read more –›With the extent of natural disasters, pandemic, national emergencies and other crises, the risk to children’s mental health has increasingly been addressed by researchers. Shima Gadari, Jamileh Farokhzadian and Parvin Mangolian shahrbabaki (2022) have recently undertaken research into the social self-efficacy of girls as a response to female children’s vulnerability…
read more –›Researchers from the School of Education at Western Sydney University have undertaken a study to better understand student experiences of sociality, resilience and agency during online learning. Dominant narratives of online learning experiences during the pandemic focus on ‘vulnerability and losses in learning’ (Naidoo et al., 2022, p. 81). In…
read more –›The purpose of this research study was to produce an understanding of the need to develop school-based ovulatory-menstrual health literary resources. Felicity Roux, Sharyn Burns, HuiJun Chih and Jacqueline Hendriks (2022), in conjunction with the School of Population Health, Curtin University, Western Australia, have undertaken important research showing the high…
read more –›This research is a reminder for educators in girls’ schools of the seriousness of disordered eating. While the seriousness of eating disorders in Australia’s youth and adolescents cannot be denied, “[m]any more people experience disordered eating (i.e., behaviours consistent with an eating disorder such as restrictive dieting, binge eating, vomiting,…
read more –›