PGR GSS Research Seminar: Introductions and Inspiration

In this session we ask everyone to nominate a favourite reading that has inspired their research.

We welcome any kind of reading that you feel relates to the study of gender and sexuality, and your place within it. We will then do some work to map our overlapping interests as a group.

The session will end with a decision about which readings we want to take forward for everyone to read for three Shared Reading Workshops across the year. Each workshop will be facilitated by research students, offering a chance to gain skills and experience, sharing their enthusiasm and interpretation of a reading that is important to them.

PGR Research Seminars in Gender and Sexuality Studies are a collaboration between UCL Gender and Sexuality Studies, qUCL, and the Gender and Feminisms Research Network.

Seminars and events will be held throughout the year, based around a series of shared reading workshops but also including public lectures, social events and exchange with other doctoral networks. This will culminate in a student-led qUCL and GFRN  ‘work in progress’ symposium in term 3.

The aim of the workshops are to provide an informal and relaxed opportunity to get to know others, discuss your ideas and exchange experiences. Sessions will be collaborative, co-designed and responsive to the needs and interests of the group.