Gender and social research
Date:
20/05/2024
Organised by:
University of Essex
Presenter:
Professor Róisín Ryan-Flood and Dr. Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Venue: Online
Description:
The course will provide students with a nuanced understanding of gender and power in social research, which will help them to develop questions and analyses that support a more rigorous engagement with social justice issues.
This course examines some of the gendered thinking that has impacted on social research in the social sciences. It critiques a male bias in the planning and carrying out of research. The course considers how to develop research questions and carry out the research process in ways that address questions of gender and wider social formations of power. Key issues explored are: developing research questions; ethics; analysis; voice and representation. There will be lectures and interactive sessions. Students will be expected to prepare for the workshop by completing readings beforehand. At the end of the course, participants will have a good understanding of how and why gender is significant to social research, ethics and epistemology.
Pre-requisites and advance information
Reading to be consulted in advance of the course:
Ryan-Flood, R. & Gill, R. (Eds.) (2010) Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections. London: Routledge.
Ryan-Flood, R., Crowhurst, I. & Hawkins, L. (Eds.) (2023) Difficult Conversations: Feminist Dialogues. London: Routledge.
Presented by
Professor Róisín Ryan-Flood is a Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship (CISC) at the University of Essex. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, citizenship, kinship and critical epistemologies. She is the author of Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship (Palgrave, 2009) and co-editor of numerous books including Secrecy and Silence in the research Process (2010), Queering Methodology (2022), Difficult Conversations: A Feminist Dialogue (2023), and Consent: Gender, Power and Subjectivity (2023), as well as many journal articles and book chapters. She is co-editor of the journal Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society (Sage).
Dr. Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki is a lecturer in the department of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Intimate Sexual Citizenship at the University of Essex. She has previously taught on gender studies programs at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town and Graduate Gender Studies Program, Utrecht University. Her research interests are in critical race, gender, class, sexuality, creative activism, public health as well as decolonial thought and praxis. She has published numerous chapters and journal articles within these interests. She is book review editor of the journal Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society (Sage).
Cost:
£140.00 - Other academia and not-for-profit organisations, £160.00 - Commercial participants
Website and registration:
https://shortcoursesgateway.essex.ac.uk/Course?courseref=SOC%3aGSR&dates=0
Region:
East of England
Keywords:
Research Management and Impact, Research Ethics, Gender and power in social research, social justice issues, developing research questions, ethics, analysis, voice and representation, ethics, epistemology.
Related publications and presentations:
Research Management and Impact
Research Ethics