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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.
Poster for the Queer Data Showcase. The poster reads: Queer Data Showcase: 5 June 2025, 5PM, Cabaret Bar, Pleasance, Edinburgh. At the bottom right corner, there is a photo of Mystika Glamoor.

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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Queering research methods

This piece introduces a blog series on queering research methods, extending out of a roundtable GENDER.ED hosted on this topic back in LGBT+ History Month.

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Exploring contracepting through poetry: a creative, arts-based methods workshop

Earlier this month, Marie Larsson and Autumn Roesch-Marsh hosted a workshop using poetry to explore contraception – an extension of Marie’s research on young people’s contraceptive negotiations, and Autumn’s work using creativity and the arts to co-create research. In this blog, Kaveri Qureshi sits down with them to discuss their collaboration, and how the workshop went.
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Critically Interrogating the ‘Rape Clause’

Rebecca Hewer summarizes her important new report exploring UK health and social care professionals’ thoughts about assessing and certifying eligibility for the two-child limit’s ‘non-consensual conception’ exception, colloquially known as the ‘rape clause’.
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Visioning Healthy More-than-Human Cities

Earlier this month, Dr Alice Hovorka from York University in Canada gave a lecture on visioning healthy more-than-human cities. Feminist posthumanist conceptual frames help to articulate these possibilities. GENDER.ED’s intern, […]
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GENDER.ED Annual Research Showcase 2025

Kaveri Qureshi, Associate Director of GENDER.ED, reflects on this week’s Annual Research Showcase - the highlight of the yearly calendar for GENDER.ED's community – and the different levels at which we see that the work of GENDER.ED matters.

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