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Supporting inclusive peace through technology: PeaceFem app V2 now live

Leave a Comment / Blog, doing gender sensitive research, gender and politics, Update / By Hemangini Gupta

The PeaceFem mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacebuilding. Version 2 is now live with additional case studies and translations into French and Indonesian, alongside English and Arabic. Read more here. Author Bio PeaceFem is a collaboration between UN Women, Inclusive Peace, Monash University’s Gender, Peace and Security Centre, and PeaceRep: The …

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72 Hours in Canberra: The Feminist Imperative and the Dilemmas of the Contemporary Academic’s Impactful Labour

Leave a Comment / Activism, doing gender sensitive research, gender and politics, Update, women / By Hemangini Gupta

by Sarah Childs In our Friday long read, Professor Sarah Childs explains her ground-breaking work on Gender-Sensitive Parliament audits and invites us into the backstage life of a feminist academic out to both study and change the world. Caption: Prof. Sarah Childs The text came in around 11am on the Thursday; by Sunday I was …

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A must read for ECAs: Advice on writing and disseminating your research through a feminist lens

Leave a Comment / doing gender sensitive research, Events, News, PhD and Postdoc Spotlight, student researchers / By Hemangini Gupta

By Rhea Gandhi Image: Panelists at the GENDER.ED panel on writing and disseminating research in gender and sexuality studies On March 24, GENDER.ED hosted a roundtable on ‘Writing and Disseminating your Research’ aimed at Early Career Academics. As an early career academic and a PhD Assistant at GENDER.ED, I was interested in this session and …

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Gendered Risks in Survey Research

Leave a Comment / Blog, doing gender sensitive research / By Hemangini Gupta

by Carin Runciman As researchers of gender and sexuality, we are reflexive of our own positions in our research, but how do we understand the experiences of survey workers who are crucial to quantitative research? This blog post is based upon an article of the same title published in the International Journal of Social Research Methodology. …

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Does Gender Affect Our Approaches to Climate Breakdown?

Leave a Comment / doing gender sensitive research, Events, intersectionality, Projects / By Hemangini Gupta

Image: Local Green Belt Movement members survey their work. Credit: USAID/Neil Thomas by Dr Rosalind Cavaghan Today, GENDER.ED teams up with the Edinburgh Earth Initiative to share our toolkit on gender sensitive research. The core message of our toolkit on gender sensitive research, is that gender is relevant in most research, even STEMM projects and …

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The Kigali Declaration: (Re)Committing to Gender-Sensitive Parliaments

Leave a Comment / Analysis, doing gender sensitive research, gender and politics, intersectionality / By Hemangini Gupta

The Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) 145th Assembly recently held in Rwanda was on ‘Gender equality and gender-sensitive parliaments as drivers of change for a more resilient and peaceful world’. It resulted in the Kigali Declaration and a recommitment for parliaments to achieve gender sensitivity, writes Sarah Childs who offers a brief summary of the Assembly deliberations for us. Image: …

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Sambhavi Ganesh – ECR Spotlight

Leave a Comment / doing gender sensitive research, ECR Spotlight, intersectionality / By Hemangini Gupta

The making of Brahmin womanhood by Sambhavi Ganesh Me – “Hello, I would like to book a place at your training event.” Organiser – “How old is your child?” Me – “I am asking for myself, and I am 24.” The same conversation played out yet again as I tried to negotiate the booking process …

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Upcoming Event – Gender Sensitive Research: Lessons from GCRF and Beyond

Leave a Comment / Blog, doing gender sensitive research, Events, feminism, News, Projects, Update / By Shy Zvouloun

GENDER.ED invites you to an online event showcasing gender sensitive research and discussing the challenges and gains involved: ‘Gender Sensitive Research: Lessons from GCRF and Beyond’, on Friday the 1st October.

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Gender Sensitive ODA Research: Tips and Tools

Leave a Comment / doing gender sensitive research, Events, News, Update / By Fiona Mackay

GENDER.ED ran an information event promoting gender sensitive research in May 2021, chaired by Prof Martyn Pickersgill, Co-Director of Research at the Usher Institute and attended by global health researchers. Slides from the presentation have been included in the post.

Biomedical versus social science understandings of gender

Leave a Comment / doing gender sensitive research, Projects / By Fiona Mackay

Funders often have a rhetoric of supporting interdisciplinary research, but communication amongst researchers with different backgrounds can be challenging.
In today’s blog, GENDER.ED team members, Dr Aoife McKenna and Dr Rosalind Cavaghan write about how this can affect health-focused projects incorporating sex and gender and offer some solutions.