Call for Participation
The Gender Empowerment Through Politics in the Classroom (G-EPIC) Project, led by Professor Bryony Hoskins in collaboration with the Association for Citizenship Education (ACT), is pleased to organise the Empowering Girls’ Voices: Building Confidence in Politics event on 28 November 2025 at University of Roehampton (10-4pm).
Aim
The event aims to bring together teachers from across England for a vibrant one-day event to disseminate and provide training on the G-EPIC programme.
This is a great opportunity for teachers to:
- Learn about G-EPIC five lesson programme and how to empower girls
- Learn from teachers who have taught G-EPIC
- Create professional networks with other teachers and with academia
About G-EPIC
The G-EPIC is an evidence-based programme that has been piloted, refined, and implemented in 45 schools by 46 teachers for 1,340 students across Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, and Germany. The findings across all five countries show that the programme has demonstrated notable success in:
- Enhancing students' political self-efficacy.
- Broadening their understanding of politics.
- Fostering confidence in political engagement
The G-EPIC programme is a set of five classroom sessions designed for Year 9 students (aged 14), particularly girls from the most disadvantaged backgrounds, to increase their confidence in engaging in politics. The programme focuses on five learning outcomes, which are
- Improving self-confidence in knowledge and understanding of politics,
- Broadening the understanding of what politics is and reducing resistance to using and engaging with the word ‘politics’,
- Improving self-confidence in political activities in school,
- Improving self-confidence in political activities outside of school and participating in political activities in the future, and
- Challenging preconceptions and stereotypes of social roles in politics.
The five-week intervention covers topics such as:
1. What is politics?
2. How do I fit into politics?
3. How do I create change?
4. How will we create change?
5. Performing change
Benefit of participation
- Teachers will gain Continuing Professional Development Certificates from Roehampton University (UK).
We are inviting teachers that
- Teach citizenship or citizenship-related topics in year 9 (pupils 13-14 years)
- Are open to new ideas, including those coming from research
- Want to engage in participatory, inclusive teaching practice
- Are committed to students’ voices and their political engagement
- Are passionate about achieving gender equality
Reimbursements
We will cover the costs for schools for teacher replacements and travel (in England) to participate in the event. These arrangements will be made with your headteacher to avoid excluding any schools who wish to participate.
Do you want to participate?
Should you wish to participate in this research project, please fill out this form.