Gender and social research
Date:
07/05/2025
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:
Aims
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.
Description
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.
Reading to be consulted in advance of the course
Ryan-Flood, R., Crowhurst, I. & Hawkins, L. (Eds.) (2023) Difficult Conversations: Feminist Dialogues. London: Routledge.
Ryan-Flood, R. & Gill, R. (Eds.) (2010) Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections. London: Routledge.
Mbasalaki, P. K. and Matchett S. (2024) How to do a (decolonial afro-feminist) creative action research with a group of street-based sex workers in Cape Town, In Sage Research Methods Cases: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research.
Gunaratnum Y., Mbasalaki P.K. & Matchett S. (2023) Scene! Colman R., Jungnickel K. & Puar N. (eds) How to do Research with…, Goldsmiths University Press.
Cost:
£120.00 - Essex PGR students, alumni, Staff, Essex partner PGR students and Eastern ARC PGR students, NHS staff
£140.00 - Other academia and not-for-profit organisations
£160.00 - Commercial
Website and registration:
Region:
East of England
Keywords:
Frameworks for Research and Research Designs, Epistemology, Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Research Management and Impact, Research Ethics
Related publications and presentations from our eprints archive:
Frameworks for Research and Research Designs
Epistemology
Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis
Research Management and Impact
Research Ethics