Join us for a two-day deep-dive into queer feminist research methods!
This workshop is for everyone with an interest in the practice, processes, and power relations of feminist research methods. Feminist Research Methods Across Universities is a participatory and interdisciplinary workshop to introduce postgraduate researchers to advanced issues in feminist research methods, offering inspiration, space for critical reflection and practical toolkits for your own research methodology.
In this workshop, participants can expect to encounter hands-on learning about researcher positionality, the politics of feminist knowledge, intersectionality, decoloniality, power relationships, participatory methods, feminist writing, queer sharing and creative methods conducted with collaborators. This workshop is for everyone who is open and eager to learn about doing feminist research!
You will learn from an interdisciplinary team of feminist researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, Stirling, Strathclyde and Queen Margaret University. You will encounter practical workshop activities grounded in real-world feminist research projects, within and beyond the university. You will have the opportunity to explore questions of sharing and representing feminist research, including in activist collaborations and creative practice.
We have convened this workshop based on the success and experiences of our past events. Here’s what some of our workshop participants have noted over the years:
‘To future workshop attendees, I thought there would be several segments of this intensive workshop programme that would not be applicable or interesting to me. I was so surprised to find that every session was interesting, useful and inspiring.’
‘Attending the Feminist Research Methods workshops during the first year of my PhD has been transformative for my PhD and has fundamentally shaped how I approached my research design.’
‘It was the first time I have ever been taught by Black and Asian scholars, and about intersectional and decolonial perspectives. How have I made it to a PhD without having this, I have no idea, but what a pleasure it was.’
If you want to develop your feminist research practice and feel curious about the range of methods and approaches we might employ, come along to Feminist Research Methods, organised jointly by feminist researchers from Edinburgh, Queen Margaret, Stirling and Strathclyde and our networks: the Gender Research Group at Stirling, GENDER.ED at Edinburgh, and Strathclyde Feminist Research Network.
Schedule (please note the schedule is subject to change):
DAY ONE
– 09:30-10:00 Welcome & refreshments
– 10:00-10:30 Introduction
– 10:30-12:00 (Re)producing and Representing Knowledges
– 12:00-13:00 Lunch
– 13:00-14:30 Quantitative Methods for Feminist Research
– 14:30-15:00 Coffee break
– 15:00-16:30 Decolonizing Feminist Writing
– 16:30-16:45 Comfort break
– 16:45-18:00 Queer Feminist Sharing as Method: Student Voices
DAY TWO
– 09:30-11:00 Feminist Research Relationships & Partnerships
– 11:00-11:30 Coffee break
– 11:30-13:00 ECR Panel: Negotiating Power in the Feminist Field
– 13:00-14:00 Lunch
– 14:00-15:30 Disrupting Coloniality
– 15:30-16:00 Coffee break
– 16:00-17:30 Playing the feminist essay
– 17:30-17:45 Comfort break
– 17:45-19:00 Networking reception
Please Note:
In order to manage the volume of interest for Spring into Methods in a fair and equitable way, we ask that you submit a registration of interest form (below) to indicate you wish to participate in this workshop. Submitting a registration of interest does not automatically guarantee your place in a workshop. Once you submit your registration of interest, you will receive a confirmation email within 1 business day.
We will review all registrations of interest and we will be in touch w/c 01 April to confirm whether or not you have been allocated a place in this workshop. If you are allocated a place on the workshop, you will receive a confirmation email and event details will be sent to you ahead of the event. If you are not allocated a place in this workshop, we will email to let you know and will continue to hold your position on the wait list should a place become available.
You may submit a registration of interest for up to two Spring into Methods workshops. If you have submitted an expression of interest in another workshop, you will receive any communications about that workshop separately.