Group members
The Gender research group brings together researchers with expertise in topics connected to gender, from disciplines across the Faculty of Social Sciences & Law and other faculties within the University.
Group lead
Prof Maria Fannin, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: Reproductive politics; feminist theory and philosophy; collection and exchange of human biological materials derived from pregnancy (including umbilical cord blood and placentas)
Group members
Prof Bridget Anderson, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: citizenship, nationalism, immigration enforcement (including ‘trafficking’), and care labour.
Dr Katie Bales, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: immigration, welfare and labour law with a developing interest in political economy and post-colonial theory - her interest in gender runs through all of these themes.
Prof Lois Bibbings, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: Law, gender and history. She has written about violence, sexuality and the body. An interest in men, masculinities and history is reflected in her work on conscientious objectors to military service.
Dr Natasha Carver, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: Gender and/in migration, racialised identities, child sexual exploitation, genital modifications, law and policy, the criminal justice system in England and Wales.
Prof Terrell Carver, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: Feminist theory and women’s politics; post-structuralist studies of gender and sexuality, including co-authored and co-edited volumes on the work of Judith Butler.
Dr Rachelle Chadwick, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: Reproductive and obstetric violence, gestational politics, feminist theories of violence, oppression and harm, and feminist reading and writing practices
Prof Katharine Charsley, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: gender, the family, migration and transnationalism, with a particular focus on marriage and migration (including the neglected experiences of migrant husbands).
Dr Jaskiran Chohan, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: Gendered implications of smallholder agriculture, building socio-ecological peace through feminism, and situating peasant and popular feminism.
Dr Helen Cramer, Bristol Medical School
Research interests: social and medical anthropology and an ongoing interest in gender.
Prof Esther Dermott, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: families, parenting, fathers, intimacy, poverty, inequality and gender.
Dr Patricia Gaya, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: Action research, participatory, feminist, and arts-based inquiry methods, especially in support of alternative forms of organising and systemic change for social justice, gender and racial equality, and ecological sustainability.
Dr Tigist Greive, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: Gender and development, adolescent girl’s reproductive health and rights, inequality, education, voice and agency, equitable research collaboration and partnerships between academic institutions in the Global North and South and between Academic institutes and NGOs.
Prof Roberta Guerrina, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: Gender mainstreaming in EU politics and policy; feminist foreign policy; equality and diversity mainstreaming in organisations.
Prof Marianne Hester, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: methodological and conceptual approaches to the study of sexuality, gender and feminist theory in many different contexts of gender based violence (including different organisational, institutional and country contexts).
Dr Nazia Hussein, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: Gender, race and religion with a particular focus on South Asian women and South Asian diaspora including Muslim women in the UK. Also specialise in postcolonial studies, critical race theory, feminist theory and cultural studies.
Prof Helen Lambert, Bristol Medical School
Research interests: Global public health, health systems, antimicrobial resistance, domestic violence, gendered and other inequalities in health and access to healthcare, especially in Asia.
Madison Lindeman, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: Menstrual health, feminist political economy, gender, and urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa.
Prof Julie Macleavy, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: gendered political economy, and the gendered dimensions of contemporary state regulation.
Dr Peace Medie, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: Gender-based violence, norm implementation, post-conflict policing, civilian protection, women traditional leaders.
Dr Natasha Mulvihill, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: sexual violence and abuse; powerful perpetrators; domestic abuse and coercive control; 'honour' abuse; the sex industry; intersections of sexual violence with faith, technology and popular culture.
Prof Tonia Novitz, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: individual and collective labour law, human rights mechanisms and also EU and external trade.
Prof Sarah Payne, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: gender equity in health and access to health-care.
Dr Maud Perrier, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: Social reproduction, reproductive justice and timing, childcare work and domestic work, motherhood, labour and feminist movements in neoliberal Global North economies.
Dr Elena Stavrevska, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: feminist and decolonial approaches to peace and peace research, political economy and intersectionality in conflict-affected societies, colonially of knowledge in International Relations.
Prof Bradley Stephens, School of Modern Languages
Research interests: the poetics and politics of gender in French literature, culture, and transnational literary adaptation; the critical study of men and masculinities; posthuman feminism
Helen Thomas-Hughes, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: co-productive and participatory methodology, socio-legal perspectives of social movements, structure and governance in charitable organisations, poverty, social exclusion and women’s dissent and, questions of voice, representation and community in development and research contexts.
Dr Sheena Vachhani, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: themes of embodiment, difference, ethics, identity and the feminine in organisation, with a particular interest in feminist post-structuralism.
Dr Elspeth Van Veeren, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: US security cultures, secrecy and ignorance studies, structural inequalities.
Prof Jutta Weldes, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: international relations theory, in/security, US foreign policy, popular culture and world politics and gender and world politics.
Dr Junko Yamashita, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: welfare, care, families, intergenerational relations, inequality and gender, using comparative analysis of East Asian and European welfare systems.
Dr Juan Zhang, School of Arts
Research interests: borders and mobilities, migration and gender, transnational families, care, labour, China and Southeast Asia.
Prof Rutvica Andrijasevic, School of Management - Business School
Research interests: gender, time, labour migration (including human trafficking and forced labour), digital labour, social reproduction, dormitory labour regime, China, Europe.
Dr Rosie Nelson, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: LGBTQ+ sexualities, trans and non binary identities, qualitative methodologies and - increasingly - the sociodigital