Colloquium on LGBTQI+ Research

Sharing, Supporting and Sustaining our Current and Future Research

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This exciting colloquium of LGBTQI+ research aims to bring together colleagues across the University to discuss the challenges and impacts of conducting this research in today's academic environment.

Supporting research in LGBTQI+ studies is more important than ever in our current cultural moment. LGBTQI+ rights are increasingly vulnerable given national and international challenges to diversity, equality, and inclusion. Issues that are framed in terms of ‘culture wars’ can have pronounced material and psychological effects, raising issues of wellbeing and even survivability for LGBTQI+ people and communities.

In this colloquium/networking event, we aim to bring together colleagues working on LGBTQI+ research across the University to discuss our current research in these areas and the challenges we face. By sharing our different disciplinary perspectives, methodologies and examples of best practice, we hope to provide a forum for innovative interdisciplinary conversations. 

The event is open to all Loughborough University staff and postgraduates and is being held in the Brockington building. No registration is required.

The Colloquium organisers are grateful to have received funding from the Vibrant and Inclusive Communities Network Fund to support this event.

Programme

13.30-15.00: Panel on current LGBTQ+ research (chaired by Professor Surya Monro)

  • Professor Catherine Armstrong (History), ‘Archiving Everyday Trans Lives in the East Midlands: co-creating an ethical intergenerational space’
  • Dr Sarah Barnard (Business School), ‘Work as a “safe space” for negotiating LGBT identities? Careers in the construction sector’
  • Professor Sarah Parker (English): 'A book for all of us?: 100 Years of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness'
  • Dr Marco Pino (Communication and Media): ‘Gender invalidation and validation in broadcast socio-political debating’

15.00-15.30 Break  

15.30-16.30: Roundtable discussion (chaired by Professor Sarah Parker)  

  • Panellists to include: Dr Kirsty McGregor (Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy),  Professor Surya Monro (Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy), Dr Madeleine Moore (Mathematical Sciences); further panellists tbc.

16.30-17.00: Networking/refreshments

Any questions, please email the event organisers Professor Surya Monro S.C.Monro@lboro.ac.uk and Professor Sarah Parker s.l.parker@lboro.ac.uk