Hub members
Research interests:
- Feminist trauma, literary and performance studies
- Modernist and contemporary writing and artivism
- Transfeminism
- Artistic research methods
- Feminist disability studies
Research interests:
- Gender
- Migration
- Gender based violence
- Feminist pedagogies
- Feminist theory
Research interests:
- Caribbean
- Colonial/post-colonial
- Gender
- Race
- Environment
Rhys Archer
Researcher and EDI Champion, Stockholm Environment Institute
Research interests:
- Intersectionality
- Participatory research
- Inclusion
- Citizen science
- Diversity
Nicoletta Asciuto
Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature, Department of English and Related Studies
Research interests:
- Women in modernism
- Women in translation
Maria Ayaz
Head of Equality and Diversity (job share), Human Resources
Research interests:
- Policy
- Guidance
- Good practice
Katharina Bader
Chair in International HR Management; Head of People, Work and Employment group
School for Business and Society
Research interests:
- Gender inequality at work
- Working mothers/parents
- Gender diversity management
- International gender issues
Jennie Batchelor
Professor of Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies
Head of the Department of English and Related Literature
Research interests:
- Women's writing
- History of feminism/sexuality
Research interests:
- New materialities,
- Post humanism,
- Qualitative inquiry,
- Management,
- Leadership
Research interests:
- Theatre
- New playwriting
- Commemoration
- Heritage industry
- Hierarchies in space
Research interests:
- Prehistoric gender
Research interests:
- Feminist terrorism studies
- Feminist perpetrator studies
- Feminist history
- German gender studies
Rachel Bottomley-Wise
Research Fellow (Trial Coordinator)
Department of Health Sciences - York Trials Unit
Research interests:
- Athena Swan
- Parenting Lead
Research interests:
- Archaeology
- Intersectionality
- Prehistory
Research interests:
- Political philosophy
- Feminist philosophy
- Bodily rights
- Property rights
Research interests:
- Feminist methodology
- Decolonial feminism
- Feminist curation
- Memory
- Literature
Melissa Chacon
PRA
Department of Politics and International Relations
Research interests:
- Gender-based-violence
- Feminist, queer affect theory
- Feminist conflict and peace studies
- Everyday violence
- Arts-based methods
Research interests:
- Intersectional feminism,
- Postcolonial literature & theory
- South Asia, Pakistan, Muslim diaspora/migration
Research interests:
- Queer Studies
- Disability
- Health and Social Care
- Body
- Young adults
Research interests:
- Nonbinary
- Transgender
- Neurodiversity
Research interests:
- Queer studies
- China
- Ethnography
- Digital media
Research interests:
- Women in science
- Gender equality
Research interests:
- Feminist activism
- Co-optation of feminisms
- Racialised/migrant masculinities
- Gender and (post-)colonialism
Research interests:
- Care ethics
- Intersectionality
- Mothering
- Sexism
Research interests:
- Literature
- Languages
- Mediterranean
- Transnational
- Europe
Research interests:
- Memorialisation
- Gender-based violence
- Conflict-related gender-based violence
- Artivism
Research interests:
- Employment
- Unpaid labour
- Gender
- Diversity
Research interests:
- Feminism
- Contemporary literature
- Embodiment
- Reproduction
Research interests:
- Black feminist theory
- Black feminist methodologies
- Reproduction
- Parenting
Research interests:
- Climate change and gender(ed) vulnerability/inequality
- Just energy transition
Laura Jefferson
Associate Professor
Department of Health Sciences
Research interests:
Gender in medical workforce including:
- specialty choice
- career progression
- wellbeing
- pay gap
Research interests:
- Land and environmental movements
- Global development
- Human rights
- Masculinity
- South and Southeast Asia
Research interests:
- Storytelling
- Cultural politics
- Women in politics
- Sustaining activism over time
Ishita Krishna
Research Affiliate
School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Research interests:
- Feminist theory and literary analysis
- Queer theory
- Affect studies
- Nonhuman studies
- Theatre and literary analysis
Research interests:
- Gendered bodies in musical performance
- Women composers (historically and today)
- Gender issues in the field of music practice and scholarship
Research interests:
- Metaphysics of gender
- Social and political consequences of adopting an identity-based understanding of 'sex'
Research interests:
- Athena Swan Lead
- Care
- Neurodiversity
- Critical social marketing
Danielle Maxwell
Student Services Administrator
Department of Sociology
Research interests:
- Asexuality
- Intimate relationships
- Feminist methodologies
- Digital selves and coming-of-age online
Research interests:
- Creativity
- Metaphor use in teaching
- Aviation history
- Women pilots
Suzanna Nesom
Research Associate
Department of Economics and Related Studies
Research interests:
- Labour Market Childcare Policy
Research interests:
- Femininities
- Consumption
- Post-feminism
- Alcohol/sobriety
Research interests:
- Film
- Motherhood
- Reproductive rights
- Sexuality
Research interests:
- Gender economics
- Gender norms
- Gender bias
Research interests:
- Sexual violence
- Social reproduction
- Racial capitalism
- Feminist politics
- Abolition
Research interests:
- Feminist theatre practice
- Feminist theatre and comedy
- Contemporary feminist theatre
- Embodied feminist voice
Research interests:
- Early Modern
- Women's Work
- Printing
- Natural Philosophy
Research interests:
- Gender-based violence
- Sexual harassment
- Schools
- Universities
- Gender inequality
Research interests:
- Law, gender and sexuality
- Women and ageing
Research interests:
- Mass spectrometry
- Lasers
- Chemical Measurement
Research interests:
- Digital wellbeing and gender sensitive design
Natalie Browne
Postgraduate researcher
Research interests:
- Gender
- Class
- Media
- Consumption
- Audience
Asqa Chaudhury
Postgraduate researcher
Department of Sociology
Research interests:
- Gender
- Queer
- Diaspora
- Feminism
- Migration
Research interests:
- Coercion of women/unmanly men
Research interests:
- Trauma
- Memory
- Gender-based violence
- Queer Studies
Yanrui Cui
Postgraduate researcher
Department of English and Related Literature
Research interests:
- Victorian women's writing
- Feminist criticism
Research interests:
- Motherhood
- Social reproduction
- Governmentality
- China
- Media
Research interests:
- LGBT reproduction
- Reproduction policy
- Assisted reproductive technology
- Family making
Shuying Hu
Postgraduate researcher
Department of Sociology
Research interests:
- Chinese lesbian identity negotiation
Research interests:
- Gender equality in the workplace
- Work and diversity
- Inclusive
- Fertility policy and family policy
Brenda Metcalfe
Postgraduate researcher
Department of English and Related Literature
Research interests:
- Gender
- Lesbian
- Women
- Emancipation
- Anti-feminism
Research interests:
- Digital platforms
- Queer genders
- Queer sexualities
- Queer visibility
- Gay culture
Research interests:
- WPS
- HRBA
- Gender Advisors
- NATO
- Security
Research interests:
- Pop culture
- Digital and social media
- Life narratives
- Gender and media
Research interests:
- Affect
- Ecology
- Romanticism
- Environment
Research interests:
- Experimental Playwriting
- Feminist Critical Theory
- Feminist Theatre and Performance
Summer Sapiano
Postgraduate researcher
Department of English and Related Literature
Research interests:
- Horror Studies
- Queer Theory
- Intersectional feminism
Laura Szomanska
Postgraduate researcher
Department of Sociology
Research interests:
- Feminist trauma ethics and dark romance
Kit Towner
Postgraduate researcher
Department of Sociology
Research interests:
- Queer studies
- Lived experience
- Feminism
Research interests:
- Feminist theory
- Women and education
- Women and employment
Xiaoyu Zhang
Postgraduate researcher
Department of Sociology
Research interests:
- Media consumption
- Post-feminism
- Social media
- Female audience