Dr Gabriel’s research centres on equity and social justice, adopting critical and emancipatory paradigms and eclectic methods to qualitative-interpretative research. She has adopted innovative modes of enquiry including critical ethnography, autoethnography, virtual ethnography, cyberethnography, experiential learning, conversational learning and participatory witnessing, alongside traditional methods such as focus groups, interviews, and case studies. Use the dropdown menu on the navigation bar to view key publications.
Publications
Gabriel, D. (2023). Do Black lives really matter? Social closure, white privilege and the making of a Black underclass in higher education in Andreassen, R et al (eds). The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies. London: Routledge.
Gabriel, D. (2021). Editorial. ‘Race, ethnicity, and gendered educational intersections’, Gender and Education, vol 33, issue 7.
Gabriel, D. (2020). (ed). ‘Transforming the Ivory Tower: Models for Gender Equality and Social Justice’, London: UCL Press
Gabriel, D. (2020). ‘Teaching to transgress through 3D Pedagogy decolonising, democratising and diversifying the higher education curriculum in Gabriel, D. (ed). Transforming the Ivory Tower: Models for Gender Equality and Social Justice, London’: UCL Press
Gabriel, D. (2019). ‘Enhancing higher education practice through the 3D Pedagogy Framework to decolonize, democratize and diversify the curriculum’, Int’l Journal of Technology & Inclusive Education. Vol.8 Issue 2.
Gabriel, D. (2018). ‘Pedagogies of Social Justice and Cultural Democracy in Media Education’,(8)1 Media Education Research Journal.
Gabriel, D., & Tate, S.A. (eds). (2017). ‘Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives of Women of Colour Surviving and Thriving in British Academia’, London: Trentham Books.
Gabriel, D. (Nov 2017) ‘Overcoming objectification and dehumanisation in academia’, In Gabriel, D., & Tate, S.A. (eds). Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives of Women of Colour Surviving and Thriving in British Academia, London: Trentham Books.
Gabriel, D. (July 2016). ‘Blogging While Black British and Female: A Critical Study on Discursive Activism’, Information, Communication and Society. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1146784.
Gabriel, D. (2015) ‘Alternative Voices, Alternative Spaces: Counterhegemonic Discourse in the Blogosphere’ in Thorsen, E; Jackson, D; Savigny, H; & Alexander, J.(eds), Media, Margins and Civic Agency, London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Winner of the James Thomas Memorial Prize for Best Paper at the Media and Politics Group Annual Conference)
Gabriel, D. (2015). ‘Challenging the Whiteness of Britishness: Co-creating British Social History in the Blogosphere’, Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies.
Gabriel, D (2014). ‘Blogging While Black and British: An Exploratory Study on the Use of Blogs as Social, Cultural and Counterhegemonic Practice’, (unpublished PhD Thesis), University of Salford, Salford.
Gabriel, D (2007). ‘Layers of Blackness: Colourism in the African Diaspora. London: Imani Media.
