Being a PhD student is a time of entering new spaces within academia – institutions, departments, research groups, committees, Twitter spaces – all while negotiating the chatter and challenges of personal lives, relationships, and situations. While this can bring new friends, colleagues, and opportunities, entering these new spaces can reveal both new conflicts and feelings of being ‘out of place’: particularly as feminists.

This student-led zine-making workshop hopes to form a space for PhD students to come together and share experiences of navigating such conflicted spaces, critically reflecting on the structures and processes that come to shape them. We aim to reflect on our collective insights as well as those from colleagues and mentors who are later down the line in academia. We plan to put together a self-help zine, including tips for navigating, negotiating, (and moaning about!) PhD life as feminists.

The troubles of PhD life cannot be solved with a self-help zine. Yet there’s a power in moaning and making, and in this we hope to build friendships and solidarities within the university, while also providing a resource for those around and beyond it.

Come prepared to cut, paste, and chat.

We welcome all PhD students and postdoctoral researchers who would like to attend.
No previous experience of zines is necessary, nor any artistic proficiency!
Lunch will be provided, along with all necessary materials for zine-making. We also actively encourage bringing with you any materials – visual, material, lyrical, and otherwise – that will bring your contribution to the zine to life!

REGISTRATION:

This workshop is free, but places are limited, and will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.

To register for a place, click here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/archive/eventregistration-zines

In the registration form, you will be able to indicate dietary requirements, accessibility requirements and any adjustments we can make to support your full participation.

If you register but realise that you can no longer attend the event, please get in touch with us ASAP on cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk, so we can offer your place to someone else.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk