Event type:

In person

Date & time:

23 Jul 2021, 13:00 – 14:30

VIRTUAL EVENT: Systemic and structural violence against women - what have we learned?

This closing talk will present the organisers reflections on the conversational series 'Systemic and structural violence against women: learning from non-academic voices'. It will also explore the experiences of the organisations that have hosted over the past several weeks.

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VIRTUAL EVENT: Systemic and structural violence against women - what have we learned?

23 Jul 2021, 13:00 – 14:30

Professor Heidi Safia Mirza

Emeritus Professor of Equality Studies in Education

UCL Institute of Education

Professor Mirza is also Visiting Professor of Race, Faith and Culture at Goldsmith’s College, and Social Policy at London School of Economics. She is a daughter of the Caribbean Windrush Generation and is internationally known for her pioneering intersectional academic research on race, gender and identity and championing the rights of Black, Muslim, and Asian women through educational reform.

She is the author of several best-selling books including 'Black British Feminism' and 'Young Female and Black', which was voted in the top 40 most influential educational studies in Britain. Professor Mirza is a leading voice in the global debate on decolonisation and co-edited the flagship book, ‘Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, whiteness and decolonising the academy’.

Rommy Anabalon Schaaf

Fourth-year PhD candidate in Sociolinguistics

Department of Culture, Media and Communication, UCL Institute of Education

Drawing on critical sociolinguistics ethnography, Rommy's PhD project seeks to examine the role of work, education, affect and language in the (re)configuration of female subjectivities and expectations towards specific temporal and spatial horizons, which in turn, work to maintain the reproductive role to which (precarised) women have been confined in a capitalist society. 

Aneeza Pervez

PhD student

Department of Psychology and Human Development, UCL Institute of Education

As a social psychologist, Aneeza's work has focused on belongingness and human experience. Her doctoral research work focuses on prosociality and its engagement with social relationships in middle childhood. 

Further information

Ticketing

Pre-booking essential

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Aneeza Pervez

aneeza.pervez.18@ucl.ac.uk