This talk is organised by the Oxford Martin Programme on Women's Equality and Inequality.

Dr Shereen Benjamin is Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Edinburgh. She was a teacher for 14 years, working in primary schools and in schools for children with complex needs.

Her research focusses on the sociology of schooling, and the use of feminist and critical theories to help understand how schools continue to produce unequal outcomes for children.

She will be speaking to the seminar abouther research on girls and achievement in schools.

Dr Shereen Benjamin & Prof Selina Todd in conversation: "What counts as ’success’? Girls and achievement in primary and secondary schools"