By Mary Edwards (PhD Student, University College Cork, Ireland) While violence is undoubtedly a powerful tool in the oppression of any group, the manifestation of violence is not always obvious. It is multifarious in nature and never more so than when it is used to oppress persons as a consequence of their gender. At…
On October 12-13th I had a pleasure to participate at a conference titled “Migrants in the City: New Dynamics of Migration in Urban Settings”, brought by a collaboration between The Sheffield Methods Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group and the ESRC Applied Quantitative Methods Network. Thanks to the Ailsa McKay Travel Grant…
More than forty post-graduates, researchers, scholars, practitioners, and members of the Belfast community came together for a post-graduate Symposium on Occupation, Transitional Justice and Gender on Friday, 8 May 2015 at the Belfast campus of Ulster University. PhD students from the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), Ulster University coordinated the event after receiving funding from…
by Megan Henesy “This AHRC-funded Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Development Programme (CWWSkills) is a series of six workshops, to be held between August 2013 and July 2014. The programme is designed to enable UK-based postgraduate research students and early-career researchers who work in the field of contemporary women’s writing to develop an entrepreneurial approach to…
by Megan Henesy This week the third of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Workshops was held at Leeds Metropolitan University. The theme of the event, ‘Careers and Employability’, allowed for the discussion of our future as postgraduate students and early career researchers in the Humanities. We were given advice, support, and a chance to discuss…
by Megan Henesy “This AHRC-funded Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Development Programme (CWWSkills) is a series of six workshops, to be held between August 2013 and July 2014. The programme is designed to enable UK-based postgraduate research students and early-career researchers who work in the field of contemporary women’s writing to develop an entrepreneurial approach to…
Conference Blog: Panel Session VIII, Sunday 23 June FEMINIST MOBILISATIONS (II): ETHNOGRAPHY Dr Manjima Bhattacharjya ‘The Union and the Agency: The Case of Fashion Models Organizing in India’ Bhattacharjya’s paper discussed her ethnographic work looking at the modelling industry in India. The paper suggested that modelling increased in the nineties due to globalisation and began to…
FWSA (Feminist and Women’s Studies Association) Biennial Conference, Nottingham 21-23 June 2013 by Emily F. Henderson There is perhaps some irony in holding an academic conference about protest and activism, but, as we discovered, there is potential for this irony to become a productive source of discussion and debate. The biennial FWSA (Feminist…
