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For all UCL PhD students interested in gender, sexuality & trans-inclusive feminisms, please join our research seminars exploring the huge relevance of this multidisciplinary field to our work & lives
The sessions 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 is 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.
We welcome PhD students from any department or discipline open to gender, sexuality, trans and feminist studies. We welcome participants from any stage of research, from those taking initial steps to see what feminist methodologies or queer theory can offer for example, to those working through the later stages of research and finding their place within the scholarship.
Our aim is to build an inclusive community of practice that nurtures and supports your ideas, and with them the growth of this vital research culture at UCL. For any questions or to sign up please email Alex Hyde, Juliana Demartini Brito or Thibaut Raboin.
Seminars and Related Events, 2024/25
Term 1
qUCL and GFRN social: For UCL staff and students working on gender and sexuality
Join us to mark the beginning of a new academic year and meet staff and students working with gender and sexuality studies
2 October 2024, 5-7pm, IAS Common Ground (South Wing)
Introductions and Inspiration
In this session we ask everyone to nominate a favourite reading that has inspired their research.
23 October 2024, 2–3:30 pm, Room 206 (16-18 Gordon Square)
Shared Reading Workshop I
In this workshop, we’ll discuss the first reading we chose from your selection of inspiring texts, facilitated by the student(s) who nominated the text.
27 November 2024, 2–3:30 pm, Room 206 (16-18 Gordon Square)
UCL Gender and Sexuality Studies Social
12 December, 4-6pm, GSS office, G08, 17 Gordon Square
Term 2
PGR Research Exchange
In this session we’ll set up an exchange visit with students from another gender and sexuality PhD programme (eg Birkbeck / Cambridge / King’s / LSE / SOAS). The session will feature informal research presentations with generous time for discussion, providing a networking opportunity to meet new colleagues and share ideas in an informal and welcoming setting. We will also explore the possibility of a return visit to meet the PhD cohort at another institution and present our work.
5th February 2025, 2-3:30pm, Room 206, 16-18 Gordon Square
qUCL, GFRN, SPRC Public Lecture and Symposium
Details to be confirmed
7th March 2025, 5-7pm, room t.b.c.
Shared Reading Workshop II
In this group, we’ll return to our choice of inspiring readings. Again, everyone will be asked to name a further reading that they feel links to the current one, and we’ll continue to build our map of associations through the literature.
12th March 2025, 2-3:30pm, Room 206, 16-18 Gordon Square
UCL Gender and Sexuality Studies Social
27th March 2025, 4-6pm, Gordon Square Garden
Shared Reading Workshop III
We’ll discuss our final reading choice with a workshop facilitated by another colleague, and also do a review of the cumulative links and associations we’ve made to other favourite readings. We will also explore the possibility of capturing these connections in a creative form as a resource. This will help us think about our connectedness as a community of practice and end the year with a sense of the attachments we have to the scholarship, and the personal investments we make in it.
7th May 2025, 2-3:30pm, Room 206, 16-18 Gordon Square
qUCL and GFRN PGR Research ‘Work in Progress’ Symposium
Our annual conference focusing on your research presentations and those of other PGR students working with insights from gender and sexuality Studies here and other centres.
June 2025, 10am-4pm, room t.b.c.