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Hub members

The Gender Hub is a network for staff and PGR students working on, researching and/or teaching issues related to gender and sexuality. 

Meet the people who make up the Gender Hub:

Staff

Boriana (Bobby) Alexandrova

Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies

Centre for Women's Studies

Research interests:

  • Feminist trauma, literary and performance studies
  • Modernist and contemporary writing and artivism
  • Transfeminism
  • Artistic research methods
  • Feminist disability studies

Rachel Alsop

Senior Lecturer

Director, Centre for Women's Studies

Research interests:

  • Gender
  • Migration
  • Gender based violence
  • Feminist pedagogies
  • Feminist theory

Henrice Altink

Professor in Modern History

Department of History

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

Lynne Baxter

Senior Lecturer

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • New materialities,
  • Post humanism,
  • Qualitative inquiry,
  • Management,
  • Leadership

Rebecca Benzie

Lecturer in Theatre

School of Arts and Creative Technologies

Research interests:

  • Theatre
  • New playwriting
  • Commemoration
  • Heritage industry
  • Hierarchies in space

Penny Bickle

Professor of Funerary Archaeology

Department of Archaeology

Research interests:

  • Prehistoric gender

Clare Bielby

Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies

Centre for Women's Studies

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

Lindsey Büster

PDRA

Department of Archaeology

Research interests:

  • Archaeology
  • Intersectionality
  • Prehistory

Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott

Lecturer

Department of Philosophy

Research interests:

  • Political philosophy
  • Feminist philosophy
  • Bodily rights
  • Property rights

Maya Caspari

Lecturer

Department of English and Related Literature

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

Claire Chambers

Professor of Global Literature

Department of English and Related Literature

Research interests:

  • Intersectional feminism,
  • Postcolonial literature & theory
  • South Asia, Pakistan, Muslim diaspora/migration

Edmund Coleman-Fountain

Lecturer

Department of Sociology

Research interests:

  • Queer Studies
  • Disability
  • Health and Social Care
  • Body
  • Young adults

Kathryn Cowtan

Professor

Department of Chemistry

Research interests:

  • Nonbinary
  • Transgender
  • Neurodiversity

James Cummings

Lecturer

Department of Sociology

Research interests:

  • Queer studies
  • China
  • Ethnography
  • Digital media 

Irene D'Amico

Professor

School of Physics, Engineering and Technology

Research interests:

  • Women in science
  • Gender equality

Sara de Jong

Professor

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Feminist activism
  • Co-optation of feminisms
  • Racialised/migrant masculinities
  • Gender and (post-)colonialism

Michaela Edwards

Senior lecturer (Associate Professor)

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Care ethics
  • Intersectionality
  • Mothering
  • Sexism

Alice Flinta

Associate Researcher

Centre for Women's Studies

Research interests:

  • Literature
  • Languages
  • Mediterranean
  • Transnational
  • Europe

Harriet Gray

Senior Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Memorialisation
  • Gender-based violence
  • Conflict-related gender-based violence
  • Artivism

Anne-marie Greene

Professor

Chair of Work and Diversity

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Employment
  • Unpaid labour
  • Gender
  • Diversity

Alice Hall

Associate Professor

Department of English and Related Literature

Research interests:

  • Feminism
  • Contemporary literature
  • Embodiment
  • Reproduction

Patricia Hamilton

Lecturer

Department of Sociology

Research interests:

  • Black feminist theory
  • Black feminist methodologies
  • Reproduction
  • Parenting

Anika Haque

Senior Lecturer

Department of Environment and Geography

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

Saba Joshi

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Land and environmental movements
  • Global development
  • Human rights
  • Masculinity
  • South and Southeast Asia

Ruth Kelly

Lecturer in Human rights

Department of Politics and International Relations

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

Catherine Laws

Professor of Music

School of Arts and Creative Technologies

Research interests:

  • Gendered bodies in musical performance
  • Women composers (historically and today)
  • Gender issues in the field of music practice and scholarship

Mary Leng

Professor

Deputy Head of Department of Philosophy

Research interests:

  • Metaphysics of gender
  • Social and political consequences of adopting an identity-based understanding of 'sex'

Nadina Luca

Senior Lecturer

School for Business and Society

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

Jane Neal-Smith

Reader (T&S)

School for Business and Society

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

Emily Nicholls

Senior Lecturer

Department of Sociology

Research interests:

  • Femininities
  • Consumption
  • Post-feminism
  • Alcohol/sobriety

Melissa Oliver-Powell

Lecturer

Department of English and Related Literature

Research interests:

  • Film
  • Motherhood
  • Reproductive rights
  • Sexuality

Tho Pham

Senior Lecturer

Department of Economics and Related Studies

Research interests:

  • Gender economics
  • Gender norms
  • Gender bias

Alison Phipps

Honorary Profession

Centre for Women's Studies

Research interests:

  • Sexual violence
  • Social reproduction
  • Racial capitalism
  • Feminist politics
  • Abolition

Karen Quigley

Senior Lecturer and Head of Theatre

School of Arts and Creative Technologies

Research interests:

  • Feminist theatre practice
  • Feminist theatre and comedy
  • Contemporary feminist theatre
  • Embodied feminist voice

Helen Smith

Professor of Renaissance Literature

Department of English and Related Literature

Research interests:

  • Early Modern
  • Women's Work
  • Printing
  • Natural Philosophy

Vanita Sundaram

Professor

Head of the Department of Education

Research interests:

  • Gender-based violence
  • Sexual harassment
  • Schools
  • Universities
  • Gender inequality

Sue Westwood

Reader

Deputy Head of York Law School

Research interests:

  • Law, gender and sexuality
  • Women and ageing

Sarah Wilson

Postdoctoral research associate

Department of Chemistry

Research interests:

  • Mass spectrometry
  • Lasers
  • Chemical Measurement

Fangzhou You

Lecturer in Digital Design

School of Arts and Creative Technologies

Research interests:

  • Digital wellbeing and gender sensitive design

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Postgraduate researchers

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 

Josie Collings

Postgraduate researcher

Department of English and Related Literature

Research interests:

  • Coercion of women/unmanly men

Jaye Cook

Postgraduate researcher

Centre for Women's Studies

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

Sanna Eriksson

Postgraduate researcher

Centre for Women's Studies

Research interests:

  • Motherhood
  • Social reproduction
  • Governmentality
  • China
  • Media

Xinzhe Hu

Postgraduate researcher

Department of Sociology

Research interests:

  • LGBT reproduction
  • Reproduction policy
  • Assisted reproductive technology
  • Family making

Shuying Hu

Postgraduate researcher

Department of Sociology

Research interests:

  • Chinese lesbian identity negotiation

Meng Huang

Postgraduate researcher

School for Business and Society

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

Pablo Molina

Postgraduate researcher

Department of Sociology

Research interests:

  • Digital platforms
  • Queer genders
  • Queer sexualities
  • Queer visibility
  • Gay culture

Brook Morrison

Postgraduate researcher

York Law School and Centre for Applied Human Rights

Research interests:

  • WPS
  • HRBA
  • Gender Advisors
  • NATO
  • Security

Alice Myers

Postgraduate researcher

Centre for Women's Studies

Research interests:

  • Pop culture
  • Digital and social media
  • Life narratives
  • Gender and media 

Kate Nankervis

Postgraduate researcher

Department of English and Related Literature

Research interests:

  • Affect
  • Ecology
  • Romanticism
  • Environment 

Liesa Refflinghaus

Postgraduate researcher

School of Arts and Creative Technologies

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

Wenrui Xue

Postgraduate researcher

Centre for Women's Studies

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