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Pride, Prejudice and Sensitivity: being and becoming a gender and sexuality education researcher and academic

Responding to feedback from our previous event on ‘what next for the SIG’, this themed workshop will provide an opportunity for PGRs and ECRs to discuss what it means to survive and thrive as a gender and sexuality education academic and researcher. We start the session with two 5 minute lightening presentations by the Gender and Sexuality Research Group GASP (Cardiff University) and the Feminist Education Research Lab, FEEL (University College London). Members of GASP will share some developments in their “JARRING” praxis from the chapter “Memoirs and Manifestos for Early Career Researchers in Gender and Sexuality Education Research” in the book, “Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research, edited by Tiffany Jones, Leanne Coll, Lisa van Leent and Yvette Taylor. FEEL will discuss their institutional fight for trans-inclusive feminism. These talks will be followed by a facilitated break-out groups and a collective discussion designed to affirm and support different ways of being and becoming a gender and sexuality education academic, with a special emphasis on care, ethics, inclusivity and intersectionality.

Programme:

17:30 Introduction and welcome
17:35 Welcome and outline of the session
Professor EJ Renold, British Educational Research Association Sexualities and Gender SIG Convenor and Dr Leanne Coll, Educational Studies Association of Ireland Gender and Sexualities Studies in Education SIG Convenor
17:45 Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research
Dr Leanne Coll, Educational Studies Association of Ireland Gender and Sexualities Studies in Education SIG Convenor
18:00  JARRING
(GASP, Gender and Sexuality Research Group)
18:05 Fighting for Trans-inclusive Feminisms
(FEEL, Feminist Education Research Lab)
18:10 Q&A
18:25 What Jars You?
Facilitated break-out groups and collective discussion
19:00 Conclusion, next steps and close
19:30 Close of event

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