Research and knowledge exchange colleagues across the University of 欧美高清 conduct internationally leading work in the field of gender studies, and related interdisciplinary fields of feminist, women鈥檚, LGBT+ and queer studies. The theme encompasses a wide range of interests including:
- Gender issues, inequalities, gender-based violence, gender justice, gender differences, gender identities, gendered relationships, gender and power.
- The social, cultural, historical, political, and economic dimensions of gender.
- How gender intersects with related structural inequalities including class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and disability.
- Gender theory, queer theory, feminist epistemology and methodology.
- Activism, advocacy, business, education and policy work in fields of diversity, inclusion, equalities, and social justice.
The gender network has a strong policy, community, and media orientation, aiming to generate new understandings of, and tools for addressing, gendered inequalities across different contexts.
Our research cluster on Gender includes a new Masters programme in Applied Gender Studies led by Professor Karen Boyle and PhD researchers investigating a wide range of gendered related topics across the four faculties.
Recent grants and projects include:
- Media monitoring for (Prof Karen Boyle with Engender and Women 50/50, funded via Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust).
- 鈥楥onnecting States of Desire: Sustaining LGBTQ Lives in a Refugee Organisation鈥� (Dr Churnjeet Mahn, AHRC funded)
- the NORFACE funded 'Comparing Intersectional Life Course Inequalities amongst LGBTQI+ Citizens in Four European Counties', (Prof Yvette Taylor)
- Equally Safe in Higher Education a project funded by the Scottish Government to tackle gender-based violence in Higher Education. This two year project implements the Toolkit that the team launched in April 2018 (Dr Melanie McCarry, Anni Donaldson, Roisin McGoldrick)
- 鈥楩andom, Media, and Gender in Scotland鈥檚 鈥淣ational鈥� Game鈥�, (Prof Karen Boyle, AHRC funded)
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TransEDU (Dr Stephanie Mckendry and Dr Matson Lawrence, SFC funded) which conducted empirical research, and developed resources and information for supporting trans, non-binary & gender diverse applicants, students and staff in Further and Higher Education.
- 鈥榃omen in the Russian Penal System' (Prof Laura Piacentini, ESRC funded).
- Here and Now: a gender-specific approach to trauma, bereavement and loss among women in prison, (Ms Nina Vaswani, CYCJ), (evaluation funded by Barnardo鈥檚)
- Cross-Border Queers: The Story of South Asian Migrants in the UK (Dr Churnjeet Mahn and Dr Rohit K Dasgupta, British Academy Funded)
- (Dr Caroline Verdier, funded by the Carnegie Trust)
- (Prof Becky Lunn, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPSRC funded)
Our activities include:
- Workshops and seminars
- International collaborations
- Collaborating with policy makers
- Hosting readings and other public events
Related activities
organises monthly seminars with guest speakers in conversation with 欧美高清 colleagues, open to all.
欧美高清 student and staff meet to discuss a different text every month.
Monthly lunchtime are open to staff and PhD students engaged in feminist research projects.