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The aim of the GFRN is to bring expertise and knowledge from across faculties, schools and institutes into productive interdisciplinary dialogue.

Anyone involved in research at UCL can affiliate to the network, if they are currently working in gender studies, feminism or any related fields. We hold regular meetings where any member can attend to discuss ideas for events or the future direction and activities of the network. If you would like to be involved please email ucl.gfrn@ucl.ac.uk

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Directors

The Co-Directors of the GFRN are Alex Hyde (SELCS-CMII) and Emma Jones (IOE).

Alex Hyde (she/her)
I teach on the Gender and Sexuality Studies programme at SELCS-CMII and have been involved with the GFRN since I arrived at UCL in 2016. My research interests are in women’s experiences of war and military power; gender, sexuality and security, and feminist epistemology.

Emma Jones
I am a Lecturer in Education and Gender at the UCL Institute of Education. My research in gender and international development is interdisciplinary and informed by feminist epistemologies and decoloniality. 

Affiliated Staff

  • Larne Abse Gogarty (Slade School of Fine Art): modern and contemporary art, as well as theories relating to Marxism, race and gender.
  • Louisa Acciari (Risk and Disaster Reduction): looks at gender in the world of labour, and in particular, at how marginalised women workers organise to defend their rights in crisis contexts. 
  • Jennifer Bond (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): historian of modern China focusing on gender, Christianity, education and diplomacy in the early twentieth century.
  • Sara Bragg (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): research interests are in student and youth ‘voice’; child and youth cultures including gendered and sexual cultures.
  • Laura J Brown (Institute for Global Health): mixed-methods interdisciplinary feminist global health research.
  • Emma Day (Institute of the Americas): intersections between histories of sexuality and gender and medicine and disease in the United States. 
  • Roghieh Dehghan Zaklaki (SELCS): how culture and gender shape the mental health consequences of sexual torture and influence survivors' help-seeking behaviours.
  • Juliana Demartini Brito (SELCS): feminist and queer contemporary art practices, and how they challenge academic discourse of depoliticization in post-June 2013 Brazil.
  • Sarah Dryhurst (Risk & Disaster Reduction): member of the Centre for Gender and Disaster
  • Giuliana Ferri (IOE - Culture, Communication & Media): research focus on intercultural ethics, the relationship of education to issues of language and intersectional inequalities and feminist approaches to language and neoliberal identities.
  • Rhiannon Firth (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): has condicted historical and theoretical research on feminist consciousness-raising, and has published on gender and education.
  • Maureen Fordham (Risk & Disaster Reduction): focusing on the inclusion of a range of marginalised social groups in disaster risk reduction, especially women and girls. Founding member of the Gender and Disaster Network and coordinates the website and its activities. 
  • Katie Gaddini (IOE SRI Thomas Coram Research Unit): research interests are in the sociology of religion with particular focus on gender, politics and nationalism.
  • Tamar Garb (History of Art): research interests focus on gender and sexuality, the woman artist and the body in nineteenth and early twentieth century French art.
  • Kate Gilchrist (IOE - Culture, Communication & Media): Her research interests include singledom, feminine subjectivities, mediated understandings of intimate life, alternative relationship formations, gender performativity, digital intimate publics and popular cultures. 
  • Lilia Giugni (Bartlett - Sustainable Construction): Gender and intersectional inequalities and gender-based violence in and across organisational spaces and processes.
  • Sonia Gollance (Hebrew & Jewish Studies): researches the ways dance, theatre, gender, and the body mediate Jewish experiences of modernity. 
  • Rosamund Greiner (Global Health): research interests include gender and global health, reproductive justice and decolonising disability studies.
  • Sarah Hawkes (Global Health): analyses the use of evidence in policy processes, particularly in relation to gender, and helps develop policy for programmes focusing on gender, sexual health, non-communicable diseases and human rights.
  • Alex Hyde (SELCS- CMII): interested in the ways in which women’s productive and reproductive labour is incorporated into nation-building projects through the institutions of marriage and the family. 
  • Anne Irfan (Arts and Sciences): Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies
  • Rebecca Jennings (History):  interested in notions of selfhood and subjectivity; intimacy, kinship and family life; cultural representations of lesbianism; and sexual subcultures.
  • Emma Jones (IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment): interested in how knowledges about gender and sexuality come into being (and/or are excluded) in education and global policy. 
  • Maki Kimura (Political Science): broad research interests are in the areas of gender and racial equality, and social justice.
  • Kata Kyrölä (IOE - Culture, Communication & Media): a media and cultural studies scholar specialized in feminist, queer and decolonial/critical race studies of popular culture.
  • Alison Lamont (IOE Social Research Institute): a qualitative sociologist with a background in Chinese Studies, and interest in the study of gender, families and childhood. 
  • Xiaofan Amy Li (SELCS-CMII): has published on feminist language in poetry and is interested in geneder inequality.
  • Simon Lock (Science & Technology Studies): Their research and teaching is focused in the nascent field of Queer STS, which aims to unpick the heteronormative, gendered, racialised and ableist architectures within and around cultures of science and knowledge production.
  • Leah Lovett (Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis): 
  • Hattie Lowe, Institute for Global Health
  • Mairéad McAuley, Greek & Latin
  • Jenevieve Mannell, Institute for Global Health
  • Lo Marshall, Bartlett School of Architecture
  • Jenny Parkes, IOE - Education, Practice & Society
  • Mary Rawlinson, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
  • Hanna Retallack, UCL Institute of Education
  • Jessica Ringrose, UCL Institute of Education
  • Stefano Rossoni, SELCS
  • Fatemeh Sadeghi Givi, Institute for Global Prosperity
  • Karen Schucan Bird, IOE - Social Research Institute
  • Sonya Sharma, IOE - Social Research Institute
  • Victoria Showunmi, IOE - Education, Practice & Society
  • Leah Sidi, CMII
  • Clare Stovell, IOE - Social Research Institute
  • Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite​​​​​​​, History
  • Tom Witney, Primary Care and Population Health
  • Punam Yadav, Centre for Gender and Disaster
  • Xine Yao, English
  • Carey Young, Slade School of Fine Art 
  • Yan Zhu, IOE - Education, Practice & Society

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