New Gender and Sexualities Research Centre launches this autumn

Autumn 2019 sees the launch of a new Gender and Sexualities Research Centre (GSRC) at City. Housed in the institution’s Department of Sociology, but with research and activity ranging across the university, the GSRC will analyse how gender and sexuality intersect with other social divisions and identities in a rapidly changing world, and will foster interdisciplinary dialogue, collaboration and research.

Sociology academics Dr Jo Littler and Professor Rosalind Gill will lead the Centre, with a further eight City academics  sitting on its Management Committee and numerous other City academics as members . A full list of academics and organisations involved in the Centre, including Fawcett, MegJohn and Justin and Rights of Women, can be found  on City’s website The GSRC is based around the ideals of knowledge exchange, partnership and inclusion. It aims to act as a hub, drawing together the wide-ranging research existing across the University on gender and sexualities, providing an intellectual base and fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, collaboration and research within City and beyond.

The Centre is critical, inclusive and outward-looking, offering a space for engagement with key contemporary issues. These range from current news headlines (#MeToo, the gender pay gap, LGBTQI rights) to enduring questions about the dynamics of power and in/equality, in order to analyse how gender and sexuality intersect with other social divisions and identities in a rapidly changing world.

In its previous incarnation as the Gender and Sexuality Research Forum, academics have put on a wide range of public talks, seminars, graduate workshops and conferences on subjects such as gender and social media, feminism and childcare, feminism and neoliberalism, digital masculinities, care and inequality.

Having now grown into a fully-fledged Research Centre, an official GSRC launch event in association with the Feminist and Women Studies Association, will take place on 16^th October 2019 from 1:30-6:30pm, followed by a reception.

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