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Feminist Digital Ethnography roundtable

On the 25th January, we welcomed our fantastic speakers Francesca Sobande, Ingrid Brudvig, and Zoë Glatt for a roundtable event on Feminist Digital Ethnography as part of our Advanced Feminist Methods and Skills series. Here, timely and urgent questions were raised around the ethics and challenges of conducting feminist research online. Such questions included examining…

Professor Rosalind Gill’s new report published on International Women’s Day

Professor Rosalind Gill at the GSRC is publishing a new report on March 8th to mark International Women’s day. The report, Changing the Perfect Picture: Smartphones, Social Media and Appearance Pressures, is based on research with 175 young women and nonbinary people in the UK. Ranging over many issues from the experience of lockdown, to…

Difficult conversations: A feminism and methodology workshop with Róisín Ryan-Flood

Laura Favaro’s reflections on the day As part of our ongoing series ‘Advanced feminist research methods and skills’, on 15th January Dr Róisín Ryan-Flood (University of Essex) ran a workshop on ‘Difficult Conversations’, which was attended by PhD Students and other Early Career Researchers across the world and different disciplines. Usefully drawing on a diverse…

Producing Feminist Research with Maria do Mar Pereira

Hannah Curran-Troop’s reflections on the day Back in December, we had the pleasure of hosting Professor Maria do Mar Pereira for our event, Producing Feminist Research: Dilemmas of doing Feminist Ethnography and Research with our own Communities. This session transpired to be a really supportive space where we talked openly about the obstacles and sticky…

New History module at City: ‘Disruptive Divas, Riot Grrrls and Bad Sistas: A History of Women in Popular Music’

“Disruptive Divas, Riot Grrrls and Bad Sistas: A History of Women in Popular Music” (HI 3009) is a new third year elective in the School of Arts and Social Sciences organised by Dr Peter Grant. It briefly covers the early history from The Beggars Opera in 1728, through music hall, blues and swing before concentrating…

GSRC Youtube Playlist

You can now watch recorded GSRC events and talks via our new YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-fOTakP4gHYj4GRIixCHu6tF6PbCNfnH

New Feminist Methods Series

We are happy to announce the start of our new GSRC series of events for this academic year: ‘Advanced feminist research methods and skills’. The series will comprise workshops and seminars on qualitative methods, with a particular focus on managing challenging interviews and having ‘difficult conversations’, conducting digital feminist ethnographies, engaging with the media, and…

Laura Favaro in Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain

Laura Favaro has a recently published chapter, ‘Hey, here’s the new way’: Young Women’s Magazines in Times of the Web 3.0’ in Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s The Postwar and Contemporary Period https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-s-periodicals-and-print-culture-in britain-1940s-2000s.html. This book draws attention to the wide range of postwar print cultures for women. The collection spans domestic,…

Jo Littler & The Care Collective

Jo Littler is part of The Care Collective whose book The Care Manifesto is out now; recorded book launch is here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_jPptWDOgQ

Koen Slootmaeckers selected to co-chair at European Conference on Politics and Gender

Koen Slootmaeckers has been selected to co-Chair the Sexuality Politics section of the 2021 European Conference on Politics and Gender, 7th-9th July. Further conference details here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/157