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The Erotic Reception of Sappho

In this blog - adapted from an essay which won an honourable mention for the 2025 Queer Futures prize - Elisha Sellick explores how Sappho’s voice reaches across millennia to challenge our modern habits of seeing and performing, offering instead a lyric of presence, tenderness, and reciprocity.
Women, walking with what possesions they can carry, arrive in a steady trickle at an IDP camp erected next to an AMISOM military base near the town of Jowhar, Somalia, on November 12 2013.

Integrating the Climate Crisis into the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

Mia Smith argues that the Women, Peace and Security agenda must move beyond crisis response to confront the structural injustices driving climate insecurity. This piece won second prize in the Political Studies Association’s ‘Women and Politics’ Undergraduate Essay Competition 2025.
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Introducing our new Co-Directors, Rebecca Hewer and Kaveri Qureshi!

As of this month, GENDER.ED has a new core team, as Becky Hewer and Kaveri Qureshi have begun as Co-Directors. In this blog, they introduce themselves, and their hopes and aspirations for GENDER.ED, in conversation with Associate Director Wannes Dupont.
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Looking back, looking forward

To welcome the new year, GENDER.ED’s new Co-Director, Kaveri Qureshi, and Associate Director Wannes Dupont look back on GENDER.ED's activities in 2025, sharing their excitement for 2026.
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GENDER.ED Newsletter - Autumn 2025

In this December's newsletter, Dr Radhika Govinda asks what tools gender and sexuality studies may offer at a time of budget cuts within the institution and intensifying democratic erosion globally […]
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Who cares in the University? Re-imagining research cultures through research with and by disabled and chronically ill academics

To mark the recently passed International Day of People with Disabilities, this blog introduces a new Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘Who cares in the University?', asking whether care enabled by slow scholarship can transform the academic ecosystem for disabled and chronically ill academics.
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A “Gold Standard” for Who? The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 as a feminist model

Elle Thacker summarizes the findings of her postgraduate dissertation evaluating for whom the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 is a ‘gold standard’ of feminist-informed domestic abuse law.

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The Harmony Trap: How Chinese Cultural Values Undermine Domestic Violence Protection

Yingying Liu reports on her Masters dissertation findings, on domestic violence policy-making in China and the "harmony trap" undermining genuine protection. She reveals how strategic ambiguity, deep-rooted cultural biases, and fragmented enforcement result in key anti-violence measures being consistently underutilized.
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Using research on gender-based violence on campus: experts reflect

Earlier this year, GENDER.ED hosted a roundtable addressing the urgent issue of researching gender-based violence on campus. In this blog, the third in a three-part series, panellists Susan Lagdon, Anni Donaldson and Bill Flack share key learnings from their work.

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Motivations for researching gender-based violence on campus: experts reflect

Earlier this year, GENDER.ED hosted a roundtable addressing the urgent issue of researching gender-based violence on campus. In this blog, the first in a three-part series, panellists Susan Lagdon, Anni Donaldson and Bill Flack share why they undertake this research, and how delivering on these motivations requires cross-institutional collaboration.

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Methods and ethics of researching gender-based violence on campus: experts reflect

Earlier this year, GENDER.ED hosted a roundtable addressing the urgent issue of researching gender-based violence on campus. In this blog, the second in a three-part series, panellists Susan Lagdon, Anni Donaldson and Bill Flack share methodological and ethical dilemmas.

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The challenging forms of post-separation economic abuse experienced by South Asian Muslim women in the UK

As November 26 was economic abuse awareness day, Punita Chowbey and Kaveri Qureshi examine the forms of post-separation economic abuse experienced by South Asian Muslim women in the UK.

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