Feminist Research Methods Workshop

What is feminist research and how does one conduct it? While many scholars identify with feminist, anti-racist, and progressive politics, they are often left struggling to understand how to conduct such research. Feminist Research Methods is an in-depth and interdisciplinary workshop to introduce scholars to foundational epistemological concerns and offer them a toolkit from which to forge new directions in their research.

In this workshop, participants can expect to encounter questions related to the researcher’s positionality in the field, intersectionality, decoloniality, participatory methods, and creative methods conducted with collaborators. This workshop is for those who are open and eager to learn about how to do feminist research!

You will learn from an interdisciplinary team of feminist researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde. You will be exposed to feminist research projects within academia as well as collaborations between academic and activist contexts. You will have the opportunity to explore different modes of presenting/articulating feminist research, including through creative practice.

We have convened this workshop based on the success and experiences of our past ones. Here’s what some of our workshop participants have noted over the years:

‘To future workshop attendees, I thought there would be several segments of this intensive workshop programme that would not be applicable or interesting to me. I was so surprised to find that every session was interesting, useful and inspiring.’

‘Attending the Feminist Research Methods workshops during the first year of my PhD has been transformative for my PhD and has fundamentally shaped how I approached my research design.’

‘It was the first time I have ever been taught by Black and Asian scholars, and about intersectional and decolonial perspectives. How have I made it to a PhD without having this, I have no idea, but what a pleasure it was.’

If you want to get started on doing feminist research and feel curious about the range of methods and approaches we might employ, look out for the next iteration of Feminist Research Methods, jointly organised by GENDER.ED – the University of Edinburgh’s gender and sexualities hub and Strathclyde University’s Feminist Research Network, with funding from the Scottish Graduate Schools' Spring Into Methods Workshop Scheme.

The Feminist Research Methods Workshop usually takes place in April or May.