Life course
By considering the 'life course', we provide an overarching framework for understanding a range of inequalities across a number of spheres, including work, care, education, occupation, social mobility, gender and health, and how they emerge, evolve and accumulate over time
moreEmbodiment
Embodiment research, within and across disciplines, relates to the mind-body-world linkage and our ways of being and having a body within a socio-cultural framework, including conceptualisations of gender, age, class, ethnicity, degrees of dis/ability, and sexuality
moreSocial construction
In a society with ingrained institutional sexism, understanding past and present social enforcement of the conceptions of ‘masculinity’ and ‘femininity’ is vital for promoting equality
moreCulture & Creativity
Through heritage and the cultural and creative industries, we can vividly grasp that women's status in society - politically, legally, socially, economically - has been fundamentally curtailed in most of the world throughout a large part of human history
morePerceptions & prejudice
Interdisciplinary and engaged research that seeks to understand and challenge the influence of stereotypes and biases on behaviour and communication that leads to cultural barriers
moreResilience & adaptability
Interdisciplinary and engaged research in global environmental change, and post-disaster and post-conflict response where gender plays a key role in building resilience and adaptation pathways
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