News & Updates

The Trans & Queer Pedagogies Learning Circle focuses on gender-diverse and trans-inclusive teaching and queer pedagogy in particular. Circle meetings take place approximately monthly, and are open to new staff and student members.

A five-day exploration of resources, connections and bite-size activities to support your own journey and consideration of the values important to you and your teaching practices.

You will hopefully be aware that the University recently ran a staff culture survey to explore staff sense of belonging and inclusivity at the University. To follow-up on the initial findings and further explore some specific staff experiences, the University have organised a series of six focus groups.

The Doctoral College have organised a focus group on what it's like to do a PhD as someone who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic, or belongs to another gender/sexual orientation minority group.

In February the Queering University programme launched the 'Understanding LGBTQUIA+ Student Experiences' project, in pursuit of a better institutional understanding of LGBTQUIA+ students' experiences at the University. Whilst we are still undertaking further analysis on the data, we wanted to share the project's initial findings across eleven key themes with the University community at this point.

Nick Cherryman and Sam Parr are running a series of trans-led focus groups on the use of deadnames in the University context, with the aim of writing up guidance to inform best practise for the University.