Dr Cal Horton

PhD, MSc, BA (Hons)

Research Fellow

Oxford Brookes Business School

chorton@brookes.ac.uk

Role

Cal is a research fellow in Oxford Brookes' Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice (CDPRP) with a specialism in trans inclusion and Applied Trans Studies.

Research

Cal is currently primary investigator on the ASPIRE project, tackling barriers to trans retention in STEM careers.

Centres and institutes

Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice

Projects

BLA-HAJ (Culturally competent outcome measurement in trans youth healthcare)

Projects as Principal Investigator, or Lead Academic if project is led by another Institution

Building Lived Experience Accountability into Culturally Competent Health and Well-being Assessment for Trans Youth Social Justice (BLA-HAJ) (01/02/2024 - 31/01/2028), funded by: Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), funding amount received by Brookes: £210,639
Addressing Systemic Precarity: Trans Inclusion and Retention in STEM (01/09/2023 - 30/12/2024), funded by: The Royal Society of Chemistry, funding amount received by Brookes: £65,696

Publications

Other

Horton C, Tzanakou C, Harroche A, Still A, 'RESISTIRE D3.4 Overview of summary reports on mapping quantitative indicators – cycle 1, 2, and 3', (2023)
Abstract Published here Open Access on RADAR

Education

Horton, C. (2020) Surviving or Thriving? Raising our ambition for trans children in primary and secondary schools, Frontiers in Sociology. 5.
Horton, C. (2022). Institutional cisnormativity and educational injustice: Trans children’s experiences in primary and early secondary education in the UK. Educational and Child Psychology.
Horton, C. (2022). Reducing Gender Minority Stress – Support for trans pupils in our schools. International Journal of Transgender Health.
Horton, C. and Carlile, A. (2022) “We just think of her as one of the girls” - Applying a Trans Inclusion Staged-Model to trans children’s experiences in UK schools. Teachers College Record.

Family

Horton, C. (2022). “Euphoria”: Trans children and experiences of pre-pubertal social transition. Journal of Family Relations.
Horton, C. (2022). “I was losing that sense of her being happy” - Trans children and delaying social transition. LGBT+ Family Studies.
Horton, C. (2022). “I never wanted her to feel shame”: Parent reflections on supporting a transgender child. Journal of LGBT Youth.
Horton, C. (2021) Parent Advocacy Groups for Trans Children SAGE Encyclopaedia of Trans Studies

Healthcare

Horton, C. (2021) “It felt like they were trying to destabilise us”: Parent assessment in UK Children’s Gender Services, International Journal of Transgender Health
Horton, C. (2022). “Of Course, I'm Intimidated by Them. They Could Take My Human Rights Away”: Trans Children’s Experiences with UK Gender Clinics. Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.
Horton, C. (2022). Experiences of puberty and ‘puberty blockers’ – Insights from trans children, trans adolescents and their parents. Journal of Adolescent Research.
Horton, C. (2022). “I didn't want him to disappear” Parental decision-making on access to puberty blockers for trans early adolescents. Journal of Early Adolescence.
Horton, C. (2022). De-pathologising diversity: Trans children and families’ experiences of pathologisation in the UK. Children and Society.