Research and fellowships
RESEARCH
Learn more about research projects across Birkbeck that are supported by or affiliated with Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality.
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SEXUAL DIFFRACTIONS
- Dr Annette-Carina van der Zaag is currently working on a transdisciplinary project in which she drafts a cartography (diffraction pattern) of sexual difference that moves beyond a male/female binary to include posthuman bodies, queer desires and post-colonial past presents.
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SINGLE
- SINGLE, a collaboration between Dr Melissa Butcher and European partners Professor Christiane Brosius (University of Heidelberg) and Professor Jeroen De Kloet (University of Amsterdam), aimed to document the experiences of single women living and working in Delhi and Shangha.
- Visit the SINGLE website.
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GENDER AND PHILOSOPHY
- Dr Sophia Connell has undertaken a new research project on the role of women philosophers in the development of early analytic philosophy.
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GAY HISTORY MAKING
- Professor Matt Cook's widely shared research on domestic queer cultures has enabled lesbian and gay organisations and individuals to engage with oral histories and archival material and to explore the complexities within conventional ideas about histories of identity and community.
- Read about the Queer Homes, Queer Families debate.
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CONCEIVING HISTORIES
- Conceiving Histories looks at the past of un-pregnancy (that is childlessness, trying to conceive, very early pregnancy loss and the ambiguity of early pregnancy diagnosis).
- It is a collaborative project between literary historian, Dr Isabel Davis and Anna Burel, a visual artist.
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THE CHOLA BOURGEOISE
- Dr Kate Maclean is the principal investigator on the project 'The Chola Bourgeoisie: Processes of displacement, identity and urban change in the Global South'.
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NARRATIVES OF SEX-SEGREGATED PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES
- Dr Lisa McEntee-Atalianis has recently published a paper with Lia Litosseliti on 'Narratives of Sex-segregated Professional Identities'. Her forthcoming book Identity in Applied Linguistics Research includes a chapter on 'Gender and Sexual Identity'.
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INHERITANCE AND SEXUALITY
- Professor Daniel Monk's research explores the relationship between practices of inheritance and sexuality by adopting a variety of doctrinal, empirical, archival and literary methods.
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DECOLONIZING SEXUALITIES
- Dr Silvia Posocco co-edited Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions. This work contributes to the critical field of queer decolonial studies by demonstrating how sexuality, race, gender and religion intersect transnationally.
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AU PAIRING AFTER THE AU PAIR SCHEME
- The aim of this two-year ESRC-funded project was to provide evidence about the experiences of au pairs and host families in the UK since the ending of the au pair visa in November 2008.
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TRAFFICKING PAST
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Dr Julia Laite is a researcher on this project exploring sex, work and migration in modern history.
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Visual Archives of Sex
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Professor Heike Bauer and Dr Katie Sutton (ANU), who was a BiGS Visiting Fellow in 2017, are collaborating with Dr Melina Pappademos (UCONN) and Dr Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan) on a new project exploring the visual histories of 'sex'. View a preview of the project.
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Their special issue on 'The Visual Archives of Sex', which features new critical work, art, interviews and a curators' roundtable, will be published in January 2022 by Radical History Review.
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VISITING FELLOWSHIPS
Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality welcomes applications for Visiting Research Fellowships from established academics from outside the UK whose research is relevant to BiGS.
BiGS Fellows should apply as part of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Fellowship scheme.
The Visiting Research Fellow programme is on hold for the academic year 2020-21. However, expressions of interest and enquiries are welcomed and should be sent to BISR Manager.
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PAST VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWS
- Dr Alison Moore, University of Western Sydney
- Dr Katie Sutton, Australia National University
- Professor Dr Frederik Swennen
- Dr Caroline Rusterholz
- Antu Sorainen
- Dr Tuula Juvonen
- Dr Jacek Kornak