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GENDER.ED Newsletter - June 2025

As the academic year draws to a close, we have provided a round-up of our events, awards, new appointments and other activities that have taken place across Semester Two! Take […]
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PrideSoc: A Reflection

At the close of Pride Month, PrideSoc President Poppy Watson discusses the Society’s achievements this year, and the need for such an active, visible queer Society on campus.

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Introducing the new GENDER.ED Undergraduate Summer Intern

Lauren Hood introduces herself as the new GENDER.ED summer intern and discusses the exciting projects she will be working on.
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Reflections from the GENDER.ED Interns

To conclude their internships with GENDER.ED, PhD Intern, Maéva Thibeault, and Undergraduate Intern, Mouna Chatt sat down and reflected on what they have accomplished and learnt during their time with GENDER.ED.
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Reflecting on the Mini-Undergraduate Dissertation Showcase

This year, GENDER.ED was able to host a Mini-Undergraduate Dissertation Showcase as part of our Annual Research Showcase. In this blog, Undergraduate Intern Mouna Chatt, and Kaveri Qureshi, Associate Director, converse about what they saw as the highlights and significance of the mini-showcase.

Poster for the Queering Research Method event. The poster reads 'Queering Research Methods' and has a circular photo of all the panelists below. At the bottom of the poster is the time and date for the event (Feb 4th) and a QR code to book your space at the event. At the right-hand side of the poster is a photo of some wooden panels/doors in the colours of the rainbow.

Queering – research – methods: a conversation; an act of queer politics of citation

At the GENDER.ED/IASH event on queering research methods earlier this semester, panellists and IASH fellows Dr Alex Brostoff, Dr Alice Parrinello and Dr Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell sought repeatedly to go back to their pre-roundtable brainstorming meeting, as an act of queer politics of citation, offering us a collectively authored text not full of answers, but of further questions. In this blog, they do us the honour of talking us through their ‘pre-conversation conversation’ once more.
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The Queer Data Showcase: queer data as an adjective and as a verb

Kaveri Qureshi reflects on how the Queer Data Showcase organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab, Pride in STEM and AI Ethics & Society addressed queer data as an adjective and as a verb.
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Queering Methods Through Absence: the Asexual-Spectrum and the Politics of Not-Knowing

What does it mean to centre absence, ambiguity, and refusal in research? This blog post explores how queering methods through the lens of the asexual-spectrum and the right to opacity invites us to read absence not as lack, but as an alternative form of presence and resistance.

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