DEAR & CSWG Co-hosted Event: LGBTQ+ staff in the cishetmononormative university
Date & time
- Tuesday 5th May 2026
- DEAR/CSWG doctoral group session 11:30-12:30
- Convivial refreshments 12:30-1pm
- Talk & discussion: 1-2pm
Venue
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Warwick University campus (room number will be provided to registered attendees)
Registration
Registration is required - please go to https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ces/desresearch/dear/cmueventregistration/
This event is co-hosted by the Doctoral Education and Academia Research Centre (DEARLink opens in a new window) and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWGLink opens in a new window).
This talk draws on a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Gender and Education. We present findings from semi‑structured interviews with 81 LGBTQ+ staff at a Russell Group university in London, highlighting how cisnormativity and mononormativity emerge as distinct yet interconnected dimensions of heteronormativity in their accounts. To capture the entanglement of sexuality, gender, and relationship norms that shape these experiences, we propose the term ‘cishetmononormativity’. We will explore how this concept helps illuminate the structural and everyday mechanisms through which inequalities are (re)produced in higher education, and we invite seminar participants to consider its potential for understanding, and transforming, the working lives of the most marginalised LGBTQ+ staff.
About the speakers:
Professor Simon J Lock (he/they)
Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL
Simon Lock is Professor of Science, Politics and Culture in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at UCL. Their current research and teaching is focused in the field of Queer STS which aims to unpick the heteronormative, gendered, racialised and ableist architectures within and around cultures of science and knowledge production. More broadly they focus on science and knowledge in public and research cultures, with a particular focus on social justice in science communication, higher education and policy.
Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment, UCL
Emma Jones is a Lecturer in Gender and Education at the UCL Institute of Education. Her research, teaching, and institutional citizenship advance gender and LGBTQ+ equity and justice, grounded in a reflexive commitment to how marginalised knowledges are produced, valued, and excluded within educational spaces. A central thread in her scholarship is the development and teaching of critical feminist and decolonial research methodologies, through which she works to challenge dominant epistemologies and expand possibilities for more inclusive and transformative forms of knowledge-making.
Co-hosted by the Doctoral Education and Academia Research Centre (DEAR) & the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG). Further information about the work of the DEAR Centre can be found at www.warwick.ac.uk/dearLink opens in a new window. Information about CSWG can be found at https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/Link opens in a new window. Please direct any queries regarding the Centre or this event to dear@warwick.ac.uk