qUCL is made up of students and staff from across UCL.
Anyone involved in research at UCL can be affiliated to the network, if they are currently working in LGBTQ studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory or any related fields. Please contact lgbtq-research@ucl.ac.uk if you want to get involved.
Directors | Staff | Students
Directors
Dr Simon Lock (he/they)

Bob Mills's tenure as Director of qUCL came to an end in August 2018 after three years in the role. Simon Lock (UCL Science and Technology Studies) and Steven Vaughan (UCL Laws) took up the reins as qUCL Co-Directors from September 2018. Steven had to leave to take up other responsibilities but Simon remains and has exciting plans for developing the network further.
Simon's research focus is interdisciplinary, examining the public dimensions of science and technology from sociological, historical, cultural and policy-related perspectives; in particular, the development of the nascent field of ‘Queer STS’ which aims to unpick the heteronormative, gendered and racialised architectures within and around cultures of science and knowledge production.
Dr Xine Yao (she/her)

Xine (UCL English) joined Simon as co-director in January 2022.
As co-director, Xine is particularly interested in fostering feminist, queer, and trans of colour critique, and looks forward to supporting and growing the vibrancy of the qUCL network in the diversity of its research and, foremost, the people and the wider community.
Xine’s primary research focuses on early and nineteenth-century American literature through affect theory, critical race and ethnic studies, and feminist and queer of colour theory. Her book Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (2021) won the Duke University Press Scholars of Colour First Book Prize.
Affiliated Staff
- Phillip M. Ayoub, Dept of Political Science
- Haim Abraham, Faculty of Laws
- James Agar, Department of French
- Bojan Aleksov, School of Slavonic & East European Studies
- Edward Alessi, Instiute of Advanced Studies
- Samer Anabtawi, Dept of Political Science
- Emily Baker, School of European Languages and Cultures
- Jonathan Bell, Institute of the Americas
- Sara Bragg, IOE - Education, Practice & Society
- keisha bruce, Institute of Advanced Studies
- Fiona Burns, Institute for Global Health
- Ben Campkin, Bartlett School of Architecture / UCL Urban Lab
- Brent Carnell, Bartlett School of Architecture / UCL Arena Centre
- Hans Demeyer, School of European Languages, Culture and Society
- Juliana Demartini Brito, School of European Languages, Culture and Society
- Ayeshah Emon, Institute of Epidemiology & Health
- Liz Fearon, Institute for Global Health
- Rhiannon Firth, IOE - Education, Practice & Society
- Jayne Flowers, Students’ Union UCL, Equity and Inclusion Unit
- Jonathan Galton, IOE - Social Science Research Unit
- Kate Gilchrist, IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- John Gray, IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- Sonia Gollance, Hebrew & Jewish Studies
- Joshua Hollands - Institute of the Americas
- Alex Hyde, Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry
- Rebecca Jennings, Department of History
- Jayne Kavanagh, Medical School
- Kata Kyrölä, IOE - Culture, Communication and Media
- Fiona Leigh, Department of Philosophy
- Simon Lock, Department of Science and Technology Studies
- Leah Lovett, Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
- Nephtali Marina-Gonzalez, Division of Medicine
- Lo Marshall, Institute of Advanced Studies
- Deborah Martin, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
- Lorraine McDonagh, Institute of Epidemiology & Health
- Bob Mills, Department of the History of Art
- Ada Miltz, Institute for Global Health
- Richard Mole, School of Slavonic & East European Studies
- Emily Jay Nicholls, Institute for Global Health
- Thibaut Raboin, Department of French
- Hanna Retallack, UCL Institute of Education
- Gala Rexer, Sarah Parker Remond Centre
- Luciano Rila, Department of Mathematics
- Jessica Ringrose, UCL Institute of Education
- Jennifer Rode, UCL Institute of Education
- Beatrice Sica, School of European Languages, Cultures, and Society
- Leah Sidi, CMII
- Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Department of History
- Pete Swaab, English Department
- Ann Varley, Department of Geography
- Steven Vaughan, Faculty of Laws
- Lucia Gloria Vazquez Rodriguez, IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- Ian Warwick, Institute of Education
- Tom Witney, Primary Care and Population Health
- Ralph Wilde, Faculty of Laws
- Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
- Tom Witney, Primary Care and Population Health
- Christine (Xine) Yao, Department of English
Affiliated Students
- Luisa Boada Bayona, Clinical Psycology
- Stephen Colbrook, Americas
- lga Doletskaya, SSEES
- Ellen Durban, History
- Sarah Edwards, English
- Philomena Epps, History of Art
- Yifan Butsik Feng, UCL Knowledge Lab
- Claire Fletcher, Geography
- Mie Jensen, Centre for Multidisciplinary & Intercultural Inquiry
- Ryan Kearney, Bartlett School of Architecture
- Kate Luxion, Social Research Institute
- Jacqueline Mabey, History of Art
- Gregory Mc Guinness, Institute of Education
- Alexandra Meghji, Greek & Latin
- Bindu Mehra, Slade
- Will Reid, History of Art
- Michael Nabil Ruprecht, Institute of Education
- David Rypel, SSEES
- Louis Shankar, History of Art
- Shilpa Soni, Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology
- Natalija Stepanovic, SSEES
- Marc Svensson, UCL Institute of Education
- Evangeline Tabor, Social Research Institute
- Claire M. Tunnacliffe, Bartlett School of Architecture
- Chloe Tye, Greek and Latin
- Ludwig Wagner, Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry
- James Watson, Department of Greek & Latin
- Nana Wei, Geography
- Ben Weil, Department of Science & Technology Studies
- Baylee Woodley, History of Art
- Hao Wu, Geography
- Zhuanxu Xu, Culture, Communication and Media, IoE
- Peng Zhang, IOE - Education, Practice & Society