Feminism, Gender and Sexuality
Cluster overview
The Feminism, Gender and Sexuality (FeGS) research cluster brings together internationally known scholars and early career researchers, including PhD students, who are committed to furthering the reputation which the Department of Sociology has built in this research field over the past 30 years. FeGS houses empirical and theoretical research, based on diverse and innovative methodologies, which explores and analyses how feminism, gender and sexuality intersect with other identities, social divisions and social movements, within local, national and transnational contexts.
Cluster members take a critical and inclusive approach in keeping up with current debates. Our research questions ever-enduring relations of power and social divisions, and engages with all gender categories. Members may belong to other research clusters in the department and collaborate closely with research centres and networks across and beyond the university, including the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender.
The cluster acts as a hub for intellectual and practical support, where members seek advice on their research ideas, ongoing projects and future plans. It also facilitates exchanges of knowledge and current research news with regard to sources of funding, writing grant proposals, journal and book publishing, events, public engagement and impact activities. We meet at least once a term.
Cluster members
Postgraduate research students
| Bruna Do Rego Troccoli |
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| Michelle Rothwell-McHugh |
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Selected current research
| Research Lead | Research Title | Research Type |
| Claire Blencowe |
Spirits of extraction: Christianity, settler-colonialism and the geology of race |
Forthcoming book |
| Stephanie Brown |
Murder and mercy: Homicide and capital punishment in nineteenth-century Wales |
Forthcoming book |
| Anastasia Chamberlen |
Captive arts: Curating the curious symbiosis between the arts and imprisonment |
AHRC-funded project |
| The vulnerable state: Appraising the ambivalent economies of state power |
Leverhulme Trust-funded project |
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| Cath Lambert |
Troubling Adoption |
Forthcoming book |
| Sexual cultures in university: an arts-based intervention |
In collaboration with Vincent Dance Theatre, IATL-funded strategic grant |
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| Maria Do Mar Pereira |
Academics and the construction of discursive and institutional boundaries of ‘proper’ scholarly knowledge |
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology-funded longitudinal study |
| Ravi Thiara |
Sexual violence and minoritised Women |
Esme Fairbairns Foundation-funded project |
| Elena Vasiliou |
Queer interventions on self-harm in prison |
Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship project |
| Khursheed Wadia |
Increasing the representation of women from racialised minority communities in UK local politics |
Muslim Women’s Network UK / Comic Relief funded project |
| Sarah Werner Boada |
Antigypsyism in child removal decisions: An intersectional cross-country study |
Eutopia-SIF co-funded project |
For more information please email the co-ordinators: Khursheed Wadia () or Maria Do Mar Pereira ()