Hello and welcome to our final newsletter of 2022. We’d like to wish the very best of luck to everyone who has approaching deadlines or exams: nearly time for an end of year break! But before we split up for the holidays, we have a few more exciting announcements and opportunities to share with you.
First and foremost, we can finally share details of our brilliant new committee members! See below for an opening round of introductions and look out for more detailed blog posts from each of our new members coming soon.
Alisha Palmer is a doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh in the department of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures. Her current research is investigating the politics and aesthetics of abortion representation in early twentieth century literature and culture. Her research explores the tensions between progressive abortion politics and its own history by exploring the discursive histories of abortion politics and representation. In doing so, she hopes to contribute the neglected radical histories of abortion to present conversations. After completing an MA in English Studies: Criticism and Theory at the University of Exeter where she wrote her dissertation on abortion, failure, and modernist aesthetics, she has been inspired to continue researching at the intersection of history, politics, literary studies, and critical theory. Her other research interests include cultural and theoretical engagements with the body, sexuality, nature, and posthuman subjectivities.
Atim Ubong Utuk is a minister of The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (PCN), through which she was ordained on 11 December 2016, having been licensed a minister on 22 July 2012.She is currently a student at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh where she is studying for an MSc in World Christianity. Her Research interest is in Gender Justice and mainstreaming, and deconstructing feminism. Atim thinks that thereâs something Beyond feminism. Atim is the World Christianity programme Postgraduate Taught representative in School of Divinity and School of Divinityâs Representative in the Student Council of the University of Edinburgh. She is an active participant in the weekly worship at New College and have officiated in the collegeâs weekly Holy Communion. Until leaving Nigeria in September 2022, Atim was an Associate minister in PCN Uyo Cathedral, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria and also served as a chaplain for Uyo Presbytery and the Presbyterian International Nursery and Primary Schools (PINS), Uyo. In addition, she was the coordinator of the Womenâs Guild in Akwa Synod and general secretary, Akwa Synod Female Ministersâ Network. Atim distinguished herself creditably from Essien Ukpabio Presbyterian Theological College, Itu, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, where she obtained her Bachelor of Divinity and at Akwa Ibom State College of Education, Afaha Nsit, Nigeria where she studied for National Certificate in Education (NCE), Mathematics/Computer Science. Atim is a gifted minister with excellent intergenerational and intercultural communication skills, she has a gentle spirit and has the capacity to shape leadership effectively.
Charley Rose Lloyd-Jones (she/they) is a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen. Their research takes a unique interdisciplinary approach to menstrual health, from contemporary medical concepts to historical and literary perspectives. She has an undergraduate degree in English Literature and History â which is where her interests in gender and health began â and an MSc in Global Health Policy, both from the University of Edinburgh. When not reading or writing, Charley enjoys travelling around Scotland, moshing at punk gigs, and finding hidden gems in charity shops.
Clare Binning (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of Strathclyde working on character resonance within virtual involuntary celibate networks. She recently graduated with an MRes English (with Gender Studies) and her research interests include literary and screen mediaâs role within both the manosphere and the alt-right radicalisation process. When not trawling the Deep Web for data, she enjoys watching ASMR and Revenge of the Sith. Twitter: @ciarebinning.
Ella Phillips is currently undertaking a SGSAH funded PhD supported by Jane Scoular the University of Strathclyde law school and co-supervised by Kirstie Blair at the University of Stirling. Her research explores how âfallenâ women were identified, categorised, and âreformedâ in mid-to-late 19thc legal and literary spaces. Ella is currently undertaking an internship with the Scottish Government, supporting the research and evaluation of a Minimum Income Guarantee. Outside of this, Ella enjoys teaching and practicing yoga, listening to folk music, wild swimming, and exploring nature. She is also a proud dog mum to an energetic but very cuddly black Labrador called Dennis.
Ellie Hunter is a Masters student at the University of Strathclyde studying Applied Gender Studies. She done my undergrad in History and Politics, with a dissertation focusing on the diagnosis of hysteria in the 19th century and the growing assumption amongst doctors that this was an illness faked by women. Ellie could see parallels between the treatment of women in the 19th century and women today who suffer with endometriosis, whose pain often goes unacknowledged or is minimised by medical professionals. The medical treatment of women is where her main research interests lie particularly issues with menstruation and the pill, generally the struggle women faced to be believed by doctors and why this is the case. Outside of studying, Ellie enjoys walking her 4 year old cockapoo Angus and in her spare time reads books not related to research and gets annoyed at the state of UK politics.
Finn Manders is an MPhil History student at the University of Glasgow, working on early modern Scottish recipe books. She is particularly interested in embodiment, âthe everydayâ and time â and thinking about gender in relation to each of these. Having worked in Widening Participation for two years after graduating from her Undergraduate degree, Finn continues to be involved in projects tackling educational inequality and access to Higher Education. In her spare time, she runs, attempts to not get injured on the shinty pitch, and enjoys playing fiddle at trad music sessions!
Lucy Mackay is a 2nd year PhD student at Glasgow Caledonian University. After completing her undergraduate in Law at GCU, Lucy continued in the department on a social justice based studentship, beginning a PhD in October 2022. Following from her undergraduate dissertation looking at gender and hate crime in Scotland, her research now focuses on potential legal responses to gender-based public harassment in Scotland. Outside of research, Lucy enjoys spending her free time cooking, wandering around Glasgow and escaping to the countryside to spend time with her family.
Thanks again to all that applied, we were thrilled to have so many fascinating researchers interested in working with us!
We’d also like to share that the planning for our fifth annual conference is now officially underway. We’re still working out all the kinks but keep your eyes peeled for the release of our Call for Papers before the end of the year. The conference will take place early next year, and we very much look forward to welcoming postgraduate students researching gender in all fields, across any discipline.
GENDER EVENTS
** Resources, Seminars, Materials and Events **
Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (Warwick), Graduate Seminar Series 2022/23
- The CSWG Graduate Seminar Series welcomes graduate research students from across the UK and beyond to share their work on gender, sexuality and feminism, in a supportive and friendly interdisciplinary environment. The seminars are free to attend and open to students at all stages of study, staff and the general public.
- The seminars are free to attend and open to students at all stages of study, staff and the general public.
- First event: 1st December, 2022.
- Find out more and register for tickets here.
The Naomi Mitchison Memorial Lecture: âThings that are soâŚthings that are not so.â Presented by Professor Louise Welsh
- The Naomi Mitchison Memorial Lecture is hosted annually by Scottish PEN and the Edwin Morgan Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. This year’s lecture, Things that are soâŚthings that are not so â Fiction and lies in a fragmented world, will be presented by Louise Welsh, Professor of Creative Writing at The University of Glasgow.
- Tďťżhis event will be both in-person at the University of Glasgow and online via Zoom.
- 1st December, 2022.
- Register for free here.
Women and the Media in Jordan: Gender, Power, Resistance, Dr Ebtihal Mahadeen (IMES), Book Launch
- GenderED and Islamic and Middle eastern Studies invite you to a book launch and discussion of âWomen and the Media in Jordan: Gender, Power, Resistanceâ by Dr. Ebtihal Mahadeen (IMES).
- The book provides a feminist, critical study of how gender power relations are played out through and across multiple mediated arenas in the contemporary Middle East, with Jordan as its case study. It examines the dynamic relationship between women and the media as it manifests at three key levels: labour, representation, and activism.
- 29th November, 2022.
- Register for free here.
From Greenham to Faslane â Craftivism and Memory Share Session, Glasgow Womenâs Library
- As we approach the 40th anniversary of Embrace the Base, the iconic action that brought Greenham Common Womenâs Peace Camp to international notoriety, Glasgow Womenâs Library are excited to host social archivers Greenham Women Everywhere and activists from Faslane Peace Camp in a day of banner making, information sharing, memory recording and song!
- Tďťżhis event will be both in-person at the University of Glasgow and online via Zoom.
- 26th November, 2022.
- Register for free here.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS/ABSTRACTS/PAPERS/MORE
Big Feminism: The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Signs, Call for Papers
- Signs was founded in 1975 as part of an emergent tradition of feminist scholarship and has been publishing continuously ever since, establishing itself as a preeminent journal in womenâs, gender, and sexuality studies
- To honour half a century of publication, our fiftieth anniversary issue aims to generate new questions and critical discussion about âBig Feminismâ â about the role and power of feminist theory â today and into the future.
- Deadline for submissions: 1st February, 2023.
- Find out more here.
Scottish Universities Press, Open for Monograph Submissions
- The Scottish Universities Press aims to provide a clear and cost-effective route for researchers to make their work freely available to a global audience, meeting the requirements of funders and realising the ambition to extend the impact of research across society.
- Scottish Universities Press (SUP) welcomes proposals for monographs in any subject by academics at Scottish HEIs and the Open University. Before submitting your proposal you may wish to view the About section and the FAQs to learn more about SUP.
- More information, including submission timeline, here.
JOBS, AWARDS AND PHD OPPORTUNITIES
SGSSS has compiled aâŻlist of current PhD studentshipsâŻavailable in the Social Sciences in Scotland. Further UK-wide PhD opportunities can also be found atâŻFindAPhD.com.
Feminism Between the Waves: A Political and Cultural History of the Six Point Group, PhD Opportunity
- The Six Point Group, Britainâs leading gender equality organisation between the two world wars, was closely associated with Time and Tide which regularly promoted its activities and campaigns. The doctoral student appointed to this project will reconstruct the history of the Six Point Group from its archive at the Womenâs Library (TWL@LSE) alongside periodicals including Time and Tide and enrich our understanding of feminist campaigning between feminismâs so-called âfirstâ and âsecondâ waves.
- âFeminism Between the Waves: A Political and Cultural History of the Six Point Groupâ was devised by Catherine Clay (Nottingham Trent University) and Gillian Murphy (The Womenâs Library at London School of Economics) and is a Collaborative Doctoral Award funded by the AHRCâs Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership.
- For full details including information on how to apply, please visit the M4C website which can be found here.
A LGBTQIA+, Black and Marginalised History of the British Psychological Society, 1892-2022, PhD Opportunity
- The British Psychological Society (88,000 members) is the voice of UK psychology. Its internationally significant archive collection (founded in 1891-2) contains numerous neglected hidden histories of LGBTQIA+, Black and marginalised people. A ground-breaking research partnership with the University of Leicester, rediscovers filed and forgotten histories, closed for over a century.
- Lead HEI Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth T. Hurren, Chair in Modern History, School of History, International Relations and Politics, University of Leicester.
- For full details including information on how to apply, please visit the M4C website which can be found here.
The National Library of Scotland, Call for Three New Board Members
- The National Library is the largest library in Scotland, one of the pre-eminent research libraries in Europe and the major centre for the study of Scottish literature and culture. In recent years it has developed a reputation for highly innovative approaches to widening access to its collections and expanding engagement with the many diverse communities in Scotland.
- The Library seeks Board members who reflect the many and diverse communities in Scotland and who can bring their lived experience, as well as their skills and knowledge to the Board.
- Application deadline: 25th November, 2022.
- Find out more, including details on how to apply here.
GenderED Communications and Events Intern (Undergraduate)
- The central role of the internship is to communicate and promote the diverse research, teaching, and knowledge exchange work on gender and sexualities at the University of Edinburgh. You will âbring to lifeâ the rich resources contained within our on-line directories and produce interesting and accessible outputs; help us to collate a forthcoming book based on the Dangerous Women Project; engage with staff, students and alumni; and contribute to the development of this exciting interdisciplinary initiative.
- Application deadline: 22nd November, 2022.
- Find out more, including details on how to apply here.
Part Time Researcher (4 months), Glasgow Caledonian University
- GCU is seeking a researcher for 4 months, 2 days per week, as part of a British Academy/Leverhulme funded research project on women, class, and sexual violence. The postholder can start early January, or earlier if you are available.
- Further details on position available here.
- To discuss or apply for the position, contact Dr Karen Lorimer at karen.lorimer@gcu.ac.uk.
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