qUCL is made up of students and staff from across UCL.
Anyone involved in research at UCL can affiliate 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.
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.
Any UCL staff are welcome to get involved with qUCL and to participate in its activities, regardless of whether they are currently working in LGBTQ studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory and related fields.
The following members of staff are currently affiliated to the network:
- Haim Abraham, Faculty of Laws
- James Agar, Department of French
- Bojan Aleksov, School of Slavonic & East European Studies
- Asma Ashraf, Institute for Global Health
- Emily Baker, School of European Languages and Cultures
- Jonathan Bell, Institute of the Americas
- Sara Bragg, IOE - Education, Practice & Society
- Ben Campkin, The Bartlett School of Architecture / UCL Urban Laboratory
- Brent Carnell, The Bartlett School of Architecture / UCL Arena Centre
- Urszula Chowaniec, School of Slavonic & East European Studies
- Hans Demeyer, School of European Languages, Culture and Society
- Jayne Flowers, Students’ Union UCL, Equity and Inclusion Unit
- Jonathan Galton, IOE - Social Science Research Unit
- John Gray, IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- 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
- Nephtali Marina-Gonzalez, Division of Medicine
- Lo Marshall, Institute of Advanced Studies
- Deborah Martin, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
- Bob Mills, Department of the History of Art
- Richard Mole, School of Slavonic & East European Studies
- Emily Jay Nicholls, Institute for Global Health
- Thibaut Raboin, Department of French
- Luciano Rila, Department of Mathematics
- Jessica Ringrose, UCL Institute of Education
- Jennifer Rode, UCL Institute of Education
- Sasha Roseneil, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
- Patricio Simonetto, Institute of the Americas
- Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Department of History
- Pete Swaab, English Department
- Ann Varley, Department of Geography
- Steven Vaughan, Faculty of Laws
- Ian Warwick, Institute of Education
- Ralph Wilde, Faculty of Laws
- Christine (Xine) Yao, Department of English
If you wish to be affiliated, or know of research being conducted at UCL on sexual and gender diversity that can be listed on these pages, please contact lgbtq-research@ucl.ac.uk
qUCL actively seeks students who would like to get involved and to participate in its activities. The following research students are currently affiliated to the network:
- Olga Doletskaya, SSEES (2021-25)
- Claire Fletcher, Geography (2016-22)
- Mie Jensen, Centre for Multidisciplinary & Intercultural Inquiry (2020-24)
- Ryan Kearney, Bartlett School of Architecture (2021-25)
- Kate Luxion, Social Research Institute (2019-2024)
- Jacqueline Mabey, History of Art (2020-24)
- Gregory Mc Guinness, Institute of Education (2020-27)
- Alexandra Meghji, Greek & Latin (2021-25)
- Michael Nabil Ruprecht, Institute of Education (2021-25)
- David Rypel, SSEES (2020-24)
- Louis Shankar, History of Art (2020-24)
- Marc Svensson, UCL Institute of Education (2017-25)
- Evangeline Tabor, Social Research Institute (2019-23)
- Claire M. Tunnacliffe, Bartlett School of Architecture (2015-24)
- Ludwig Wagner, Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (2020-24)
- James Watson, Department of Greek & Latin (2013-23)
- Ben Weil, Department of Science & Technology Studies (2017-22)
- Izabella Wodzka, Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (2018-23)
- Baylee Woodley, History of Art (2021-25)
- Zhuanxu Xu, Culture, Communication and Media, IoE (2021-25)
If you are an existing student and would like to be affiliated, and to have a link to your work or an abstract posted on this website, please contact lgbtq-research@ucl.ac.uk