Corridor Cultures: A community-led research project into school cultures of gender and sexuality

Exploring how schools create environments that include and celebrate all students.

Schools should be places where everyone can be themselves and feel like they belong. Corridor Cultures aims to understand school cultures of gender and sexuality, and how these can affirm or marginalise students.

Corridor Cultures is a community-led research project that works with students, teachers and school leaders to improve the experiences of schooling for everyone. This is the first project to directly include students and teachers as co-researchers to investigate how school policies, spaces and activities influence cultures of gender and sexuality, and how these in turn shape feelings of belonging and wellbeing at school. It will produce evidence from the ground up about how different school communities can disrupt gendered violence in inventive and contextually responsive ways.