Dr Marios Kostas

Marios is the course director for the MA Education and a senior lecturer in Early Childhood Education. Since joining CCCU, Marios has taught in several programmes within the School of Arts, Humanities and Education [i.e., BSc (Hons) Early Childhood Studies, BA Early Childhood Education and Care, MA Early Childhood Education, MA Education, and the doctorate programme in Education].

Marios teaches a range of modules at both undergraduate (BA Early Childhood Studies, BA Early Childhood Education and Care) and postgraduate levels (MA Education, MA Early Childhood Education, and Education Doctorate), including Research Methods and Methodologies, Gender Issues in the Early Years, Critical Issues in Early Childhood. He also supervises Masters and Doctoral students working in the fields of sociology of education and gender studies and would be keen to hear from any prospective students interested in working on topics in this area.

Marios has a doctorate in Social Psychology of Education from the UCL Institute of Education and is a senior fellow of HEA (Advance HE). Prior to working for Canterbury Christ Church University. Marios lectured at higher education institutions in the UK and abroad and trained and taught in primary schools in London. 

Marios's research interests lie in the areas of gender and sexuality. Working with feminist, queer and post-humanist approaches, his current research explores gendered and sexual subjectivities across diverse institutional sites and public spaces. He is particularly interested in what it means to be a gendered child and how this is understood by children themselves. Other research foci include: LGBTQ, spatiality and schooling; power/knowledge; gender and curriculum.

Current Research Projects
A new materialist approach to gay masculinities, femiphobia, and homophobic bullying
Gender Differences in Classroom Interaction.
Gender Representations in Chinese Textbooks of Primary Education

Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (Advance HE)
Member of the International Professional Development Association (IPDA)
Member of the Early Childhood Studies Degree Network
Academic External Adviser for Postgraduate Education & Childhood and Youth in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport at the Open University. 
Associate Editor of Sage Open Journal