The Gender Research Centre (GRC) research seminars present research in progress by GRC staff, PhD students and visiting scholars.

All seminars take place on Wednesdays from 1 - 2 pm in LG.04, 11 Priory Rd. 

Everyone is welcome!

5 October
Professor Julia O’Connell-Davidson (University of Bristol, SPAIS)
'Slavery, Gender and the Ambiguities of Debt'

2 November
Adriana Suarez Delucci, PhD Candidate (University of Bristol, SPAIS)
'Resilience of whom and to what: Can a feminist approach help in building the resilience of socio-ecological systems to climate change effects? - The case of water governance in Chile'

23 November
Professor Susan Franceschet (University of Calgary/Sussex University)
'Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender: How Do Women Get a Seat at the Table?'

7 December
Rosie Waters, PhD Candidate (University of Bristol, SPAIS)
'"Pink-Washing": Gender and the Corporate Social Responsibility Agenda'

18 January
Dr Maria Maria Do Pereira (University of Warwick)
"You can feel the exhaustion in the air all around you".  The mood of academia and its effects on feminist scholarship  

15 February
Dr Rose Holyoak (University of Bristol, SPAIS)
'Degendering emotion work in radical social movements'

1 March
Karen Desborough (University of Bristol, SPAIS)
'The Global Anti-Street Harassment Movement: A Digitally-Enabled Feminist Politics of Resistance'

3 May
Professor Esther Dermott & Christina Pantazis (University of Bristol)
''Gendered Inequalities within the Household; deprivation, economising and managing money'

24 May
Dr Victoria Clarke (UWE)
'How can a heterosexual man remove his body hair and retain his masculinity?  Exploring accounts of male body hair removal using story completion technique'