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
Professor 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 (Science and Technology Studies) and Steven Vaughan (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, Political Science
- Haim Abraham, Laws
- James Agar, SELCS-CMII
- Bojan Aleksov, Slavonic & East European Studies
- Samer Anabtawi, Political Science
- Emily Baker, SELCS-CMII
- Jonathan Bell, Institute of the Americas
- Susie Bower-Brown - IOE Social Research Institute
- Sara Bragg, IOE - Education, Practice & Society
- Peter Browning, IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- keisha bruce, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- Fiona Burns, Global Health
- Ben Campkin, Bartlett School of Architecture / UCL Urban Lab
- Brent Carnell, Bartlett School of Architecture / UCL Arena Centre
- Emma Day, Institute of the Americas
- Hans Demeyer, SELCS-CMII
- Juliana Demartini Brito, SELCS-CMII
- Helen de Witt, Anthropology
- Ayeshah Emon, Epidemiology & Health
- Liz Fearon, Global Health
- Rhiannon Firth, IOE - Education, Practice & Society
- Jayne Flowers, Students’ Union UCL, Equity and Inclusion Unit
- Jonathan Galton, IOE - Social Science Research Unit
- Liang Ge, IOE - Social Research Institute
- Kate Gilchrist, IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- John Gray, IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- Sonia Gollance, Hebrew & Jewish Studies
- Martin Gozzi, Social Research Institute
- Jesper Hansen, Education and Practice Development (ARENA)
- Joshua Hollands - Americas
- Alex Hyde, Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry
- Rebecca Jennings, History
- Jayne Kavanagh, Medical School
- Kata Kyrölä, IOE - Culture, Communication and Media
- Fiona Leigh, Philosophy
- Simon Lock, Science and Technology Studies
- Leah Lovett, Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
- Nephtali Marina-Gonzalez, Medicine
- Lo Marshall, Institute of Advanced Studies
- Deborah Martin, SELCS-CMII
- Lorraine McDonagh, Institute of Epidemiology & Health
- Bob Mills, History of Art
- Ada Miltz, Institute for Global Health
- Richard Mole, School of Slavonic & East European Studies
- Emily Jay Nicholls, Institute for Global Health
- Daniel Ovalle Costal, Bartlett Architecture
- Thibaut Raboin, SELCS-CMII
- Hanna Retallack, UCL Institute of Education
- Luciano Rila, Mathematics
- Taylor Riley, Anthropology
- Jessica Ringrose, UCL Institute of Education
- Jennifer Rode, UCL Institute of Education
- Beatrice Sica, SELCS-CMII
- Leah Sidi, SELCS-CMII
- Hugh Stevens, English
- Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, History
- Pete Swaab, English
- Evie Tabor, Social Research Institute
- Ann Varley, Geography
- Steven Vaughan, Laws
- Lucia Vazquez Rodriguez, IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- Ian Warwick, Institute of Education
- Ralph Wilde, Laws
- Tom Witney, Primary Care and Population Health
- Christine (Xine) Yao, English
Affiliated Students
- Natalie Abbott, SELCS-CMII
- Sitian Chen, IOE - Education, Practice & Society
- Olga Doletskaya, SSEES
- Ellen Durban, History
- Sarah Edwards, English
- Philomena Epps, History of Art
- Yifan Butsik Feng, Interaction Centre (UCLIC) & Knowledge Lab
- Mie Jensen, SELCS-CMII
- Caitlin Kane, SELCS-CMII
- Ryan Kearney, Bartlett School of Architecture
- Kate Luxion, Social Research Institute
- Jacqueline Mabey, History of Art
- Victoria Mangan, English
- Gregory Mc Guinness, Institute of Education
- Bindu Mehra, Slade
- Jonathan O'Shea, Psychiatry
- Jane Perez, Political Science
- Freya Proudman, SSEES
- Michael Nabil Ruprecht, Institute of Education
- Julia Ryng, SELCS-CMII
- David Rypel, SSEES
- Louis Shankar, History of Art
- Shilpa Soni, Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology
- Natalija Stepanovic, SSEES
- Marc Svensson, UCL Institute of Education
- Claire M. Tunnacliffe, Bartlett School of Architecture
- Chloe Tye, Greek and Latin
- Tyler Valiquette, Risk and Disaster Reduction
- Ludwig Wagner, SELCS-CMII
- James Watson, Greek & Latin
- Ben Weil, Science & Technology Studies
- Baylee Woodley, History of Art
- Hao Wu, Geography
- Zhuanxu Xu, Culture, Communication and Media, IoE
- Peng Zhang, IOE - Education, Practice & Society
- Yingxin Zhang, SELCS-CMII
- Zixi Zuo, IOE - Education, Practice & Society