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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

Directors | Staff | Students | Collaborators

Directors

The Co-Directors of the GFRN are Lilia Giugni (Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction), Maki Kimura (Political Science) and Karen Schucan Bird (Social Research Institute).

  • Lilia Giugni: I am interested in feminist approaches to alternative technologies and fairer futures, gender and intersectional inequalities, and gender-based violence across digital and organisational spaces and processes.
  • Maki Kimura: My broad research interests are in the areas of gender and racial equality, feminism and social justice. I also research into the politics of memorialisation of war.
  • Karen Schucan Bird: My research interests span gender, politics, and social policy, with a recent focus on on domestic violence and abuse.

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. 
  • Irma Allen (Geography): feminist political ecology perspectives to trace the embodied emotional resonance of anti-environmentalist, far-right narratives among predominanly male coal workers.
  • 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.
  • Alinda Damsma (Hebrew & Jewish Studies): gender-related aspects of magic, divination and witchcraft in the Bible.
  • 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
  • Hakan Ergül (IOE - Culture, Communication & Media): media ethnography, everyday life studies, media sociology, gender and digital media.
  • 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.
  • 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 Advanced Spatial Analysis): spatial and environmental justice in arts practices and urbanism
  • Hattie Lowe (Global Health): improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health and preventing all forms of violence against women and girls. 
  • Mairéad McAuley (Greek & Latin): the body and the senses; gender and the family
  • Jenevieve Mannell (Global Health): gender-based violence prevention
  • Lo Marshall (Bartlett Architecture): gender, sexuality and cities, with a focus on LGBTQIA+ peoples' lived experiences
  • Jenny Parkes (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): relationship between violence, gender and inequalities in young people’s lives
  • Mary Rawlinson (Institute of Advanced Studies): sexual difference, feminist bioethics
  • Hanna Retallack (IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment): gender, sexualities and feminisms in education
  • Jessica Ringrose (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): sociology of gender and education
  • Stefano Rossoni (SELCS-CMII): masculinities
  • Karen Schucan Bird (Social Research Institute): gender, politics, and social policy
  • Sonya Sharma (Social Research Institute): the intersection of feminist, gender and religious studies
  • Victoria Showunmi (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): gender, education, leadership and empowerment
  • Leah Sidi (SELCS-CMII): feminist theatre and psychoanalysis.
  • Clare Stovell (Social Research Institute): gender, social inequalities, work and family intersections, social policy, parenthood, and work-life balance.
  • Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite​​​​​​​ (History): women's activism, gender, sexuality and sex work.
  • Tom Witney (Primary Care and Population Health): improving access to sexual health for trans and gender diverse people.
  • Punam Yadav (Gender and Disaster): Gender, Peace and Disaster; Gender Quotas and Women's Political Participation; Women's Reproductive Health and Rights
  • Xine Yao (English): trans, feminist, and queer of colour theory.
  • Carey Young (Slade School of Fine Art): intersection of language, the body, gender and systems of power. 
  • Yan Zhu (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): Children’s school experiences, with a focus on gender, sexuality, and power relations.

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