Gender and Sexuality Research Network

About GSRN

The Gender & Sexuality Research Network at Durham is an inter-disciplinary forum where academics and post-graduates from different departments and faculties can discuss their research on gender and sexuality. The Network meets monthly for activities (Reading Groups, invited speakers, etc.).

If you are interested in undertaking research (including interdisciplinary research) in gender and/or sexuality at Durham and are looking for supervision, we hope the list below will help you in your search for a supervisor/supervisors.

Please visit the Gender and Sexuality Research Network blog for more information, news and discussion.

Faculty of Arts and Humanities
	Name	Research
English Language Centre	Ms. Alannah Fitzgerald	Educational technology and computation linguistics that support the study of academic writing in English, and facilitate education in under resourced communites such as refugee camps in Bangladesh and along the Thai-Bermese boarder.

English Studies	Prof. Pat Waugh	Forthcoming
English Studies	Dr. Jenny Terry	African American, Caribbean and black British writing; the work of women writers; feminist and postcolonial theory.

History	Dr. Cathy McClive	Men/women's bodies in early Modern France; attitudes towards menstruation; legal medicine; how gender affects medical expertise.

School of Modern Languages	Prof Lucille Cairns	Feminism, sexuality and gender in French literature and cinema; Jewish women's writing; the body in literature and cinema.
School of Modern Languages	Dr. Santiago Fouz Hernandez	Sexuality and masculinities in contemporary Spanish cinema; the male body in cinema.

Philosophy	Dr. Sylvie Gambaudo	Child Development and gender; narratives of depression and madness.
Philosophy	Mr. Richard Stopford (PhD)	Relationships between economic structures, sexuality and sexual norms.

Theology and Religion	Allison Fenton (PhD)	Meaning of infant baptism for new mothers.

Faculty of Science
	Name	Research
Psychology	Dr Lynda Boothroyd	Attraction; role of testosterone in men; competitive behaviour and dominance amongst men; how female reproductive biology influences competitiveness/dominance amongst men; how children learn to become competitive.

Faculty of Social Sciences and Health
	Name	Research
School of Applied Social Sciences	Dr. Maggie O'Neill	Prostitution and commercial sex-industry, migration/asylum.
	Dr. Nicole Westmarland	Male violence against women.
	Dr. Jo Phoenix	Prostitution, the governance of sex, gender and criminal justice.
	Dr. Lizzie Seal	Forthcoming.
	Nathan Griffin (PhD Student)	Animal rights activism; critical pedagogy and Queer/post-structural/feminist theory.

Geography	Dr. Angharad Closs-Stephens	Time, Space and identity; community, nationalism, political emancipation and resistance.
	Dr. Rachel Colls	Theories of sexual difference (Irigaray, Grosz, Braidotti); critical accounts of fatness and obesity; size and acceptance.
	Dr. Anne Le Mare	Livelihoods, alternative trades and countries experiencing conflict and reconstruction.
	Dr. Cheryl McEwan	Forthcoming.
	Dr. Bethan Evans	Forthcoming.

Law School	Prof. Clare McGlynn	Feminism and law - especially legal regulation of pornography, prostitution and rape; and equality law - especially women lawyers and academics.
	Dr. Neil Cobb	Sexuality and law - especially HIV status and criminalisation; same-sex partnerships and equality law; hate crimes.
	Dr. Erika Rackley	Judicial diversity, particularly in relation to the jurisprudence of Baroness Hale who (so far) is the only female member of the UK Supreme Court; extreme pornography.

School of Medicine and Health	Dr. Angela Woods	Gender, embodiment and mental illness; posthumanism; gender and narrative.
	Dr. Simon Forrest	Young masculinities, young people gender, sex and sexuality, gender and power in intimate relationships, gender and emotion, gender and identities, fatherhood and male parenting.
	Dr. Lutz Sauerteig	History of sexualities; bodies and gender - especially shaping the sexual knowledge of the young (1880s - 1970s); and history of puberty (19th and 20th centuries).
	Dr. Sally Brown	Young people; sexual health; risk; gender and health.

Further Information:

For further information about the Gender and Sexuality Research Network please contact:

Sylvie Gambaudo or visit her homepage.