Gender, Sexuality and Inequalities
We have a distinguished history of groundbreaking international and interdisciplinary research on gender, sexuality and inequality.
Our research expertise examines gender and sexuality in the context of law, health and medicine, migration, family studies and food.
We continue to reshape the field through empirically robust and theoretically driven research. Our work engages with the sociological imagination in topics that include class, age, ethnicity, embodiment and everyday life practices across a range of international contexts.
The department is also home to the world-renowned Centre for Women's Studies which boasts collaborations with colleagues in China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden, Finland and South Africa.
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- Dr Emily Nicholls
Gender, femininities, identities particularly in relation to drinking and sobriety
- Professor Ellen Annandale Gender theory/feminist theory, gender and health.
- Dr Clare Jackson
Conversation analysis applied to gender, childbirth - Dr Anna Strhan
Relations between religion, secularism, gender and sexuality - Dr Christine Jackson-Taylor
Exploring sexuality, gender and lived religion using narrative - Dr Ayshka Sene
Gender in wartime, gender and ethnicity, gendered spaces in the inner city - Dr Rachel Alsop
Gender theories and social justice, comtemporary developments in feminist theory; issues of body image (particularly in relation to aesthetic surgery); gender based violence and refugee and migrant women; and girls' rights - Dr Clare Bielby
Terrorism and gender; violence, representation and gender; violence, subjectivity and affect/emotion; the field of perpetrator studies; history of feminisms; queer studies and feminist queer theory; subjectivity and narratives of the self; gender, sexuality and representation - Dr Boriana Alexandrova
Contemporary women's writing and performance, 20th - 21st century literary multilingualism and translation, including Irish and European modernism, global and postcolonial studies, and cross-disciplinary theories of embodiment - Sheila Davitt
Supporting research staff with any research relating to this cluster - Dr Silvia Falcetta
Sexual orientation equality, discrimination, human rights, feminist and queer legal theory, social and legal control - Dr Amanda Rees
Feminism, futures, sciences, animals, science fictions - Dr Siân Beynon-Jones Feminism, time/temporalities, STS, pregnancy, reproductive healthcare, law, medical sociology
- Dr Raphael Nowak
Culture, value, technologies, affect, genres
Feminism, medical sociology, conversation analysis, decision-making in medical interaction, family therapy
- Dr Miranda Armstrong
Single motherhood, the life course, intersectional experiences of family and the inner-city - Dr Aurelien Mokoko Gampiot Gender and ethnicity in African religions and the African diaspora
- Dr Haley McAvay
Neighbourhood inequality and gender, migration and gender - Dr Kun Li Gender and ageing study, family relationships
- Lizzie Merrill
Gender, feminist art histories and the medical humanities - Siham Akaka
Feminisms / Women's experiences with Hijab - Amy Holmes
Gender, community / marginalisation, urban studies - Sanna Eriksson
Motherhood, gender and feminisms in China - Siyu Chen
Media and gender: the gendered experiences of Chinese journalists and their influence on sexual assault news reporting - Diana/Dee Adu-Gyimah
Gender & Activism: How female students are fighting against sexual violence on university campuses in Ghana - Alankrita Anand
Gender and health, reproductive justice, feminist agency, feminist research methods - Kelly Richards Darcy-Reed
Gender in visual and narrative pop culture - Lauren Cowling
Gender identity, sexualities,currently researching narratives of the vulvavagina - Nicole Roy
Feminism, gender (especially how antifeminist actors use their framing of a 'gender idealogy'), the far right, racism, femonationalism - Jade Gilbourne
Digital relationships, gender and sexuality, sex and identity
- Dimitra Mouriki
Sexual and gender-based violence against refugee women: A salient aspect in the Mediterranean refugee crisis.
- Catherine Stinton
Gender, racism, the far right, whiteness studies
- Shiyuan Yin
Gender & Identity, rural women in China
- Charlotte Edun
Feminism in pregnancy and birth. Women's experiences of birth plans, values based practice and knowledge redistribution - Mia Westrap
Postfeminism, nepliberalism, intuitive eating
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Our diverse and extensive research is documented in our research archive.