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Projects in Centre for Gender and Women's Studies

• The Surface Studies Network

  01/06/2013 →
  Liz Oakley-Brown, Rebecca Coleman
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• Gender, Teaching and Care

  20/10/2012 →
  Jo Warin
  Gender,teaching and care. Swedish/English network of gender researchers. This network began through collaboration between gender researchers at the Universities of Gothenburg, Lancaster and the Unive ... Read more»

• ESRC Seminar Series ‘Exploring Everyday Practice and Resistance in Immigration Detention‘.

  01/09/2012 → 31/12/2014
  Imogen Tyler
  Detention is a pressing empirical, conceptual, and political issue. Detained populations, detention facilities, and industries have expanded globally. We argue that developments in detention practices ... Read more»

• Monograph - 'International Child Relocation Law: Competing Interests; Competing Human Rights'

  30/07/2012 → 31/12/2013
  Sarah Beresford
  International Child Relocation Law will provide a clear, interdisciplinary and socio-legal analysis of the law in an international context with a focus on selected jurisdictions. Whilst there is some ... Read more»

• Cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare and international law

  05/07/2012 →
  Bela Bonita Chatterjee
  Dr Chatterjee is currently exploring the contours of international law as they relate to cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare. A paper on the topic has been presented to the International Law Group, Lancas ... Read more»

• Bright Links evaluation

  15/05/2012 → 30/12/2012
  Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden
  REAP evaluated the Bright Links Engineering e-mentoring scheme which is a 3 year scheme run by the Royal Academy of Engineering in partnership with Brightside. The scheme is intended to inspire and su ... Read more»

• The Genres Project

  01/01/2012 →
  Sam Clark, Brian Black
  Throughout the history of philosophy as an academic discipline, scholars have tended to focus almost exclusively on the content or meaning of philosophical works, with very little attention to the for ... Read more»

• Affecting citizenship: the citizenship naturalisation process in Britain

  01/04/2011 → 31/08/2013
  Anne-Marie Fortier
  Following on from Multicultural Horizons, my current research focuses on the British naturalisation process as a site of 'citizenship-in-the-making'. The distinctive character of this study is its foc ... Read more»

• Crash Cinemas in Spain, the Americas and Beyond

  31/01/2011 →
  Amit Thakkar
  This project concerns recent films in which crashes have featured not just as plot devices but also as linguistic motifs which help to structure and inform these films. The project covers both aesthet ... Read more»

• Maternal Publics and Counter Publics

  01/01/2011 →
  Imogen Tyler
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• Onscenity Network

  05/07/2010 →
  Debra Ferreday
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• Skeletal Subjects: visual cultures of thinness

  01/09/2009 →
  Debra Ferreday
  Media representations of anorexia, eating disorders, thinness and 'size zero' bodies ... Read more»

• Researching Affect and Affective Communications

  15/05/2009 → 26/03/2010
  Debra Ferreday
  Increasingly, social science researchers are pointing to the central importance of affect and affective communication to understanding the dynamics of flows and networks, particularly with reference t ... Read more»

• Barrow Youth Re: action Team

  02/12/2008 → 01/08/2011
  Ann-Marie Houghton, Steven Dempster
  The Youth Re: action Team (YRAT) was a group of upper secondary school students from Barrow-in-Furness who were involved in researching local people's views of the regeneration of their town.The YRAT ... Read more»

• Barrow Engineering Project: evaluation

  01/09/2008 →
  Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden
  REAP are evaluating the Barrow Engineering Project, a curriculum enrichment project that seeks to raise the profile of engineering among young people in Barrow-in-Furness. Partners include the Royal ... Read more»

• Fashioning Femininity

  01/06/2008 →
  Debra Ferreday
  Researching the relationship between femininity, feminism, dress, bodies and performance. ... Read more»

• Masculinities and Violence in Latin American Cultures

  30/04/2008 →
  Amit Thakkar
  Project leaders are myself and Dr Chris Harris at the University of Liverpool (website under construction: http://mavlac.wordpress.com/). Funding of £1500 was secured from the British Academy’s Jo ... Read more»

• What are the views of people affected by cancer and other illnesses about end of life issues? carer perspectives.

  01/08/2005 → 30/09/2005
  Carol Thomas, Amanda Bingley
  Project funded by Macmillan Cancer Relief ... Read more»

• The Literature and Photography of Juan Rulfo

  31/01/2005 →
  Amit Thakkar
  This is my own project since the completion of my PhD. The latter focused on irony in the work of the celebrated Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. Rulfo’s novel and masterpiece, Pedro Páramo, was listed i ... Read more»

• The Method of History

  01/10/2004 →
  Sarah Barber, Corinna Peniston-Bird
  Work in all my areas of research involves using sources from material, visual, aural and oral culture which prove problematic for Historians. Corinna Peniston Bird (Lancaster) and I have co-edited the ... Read more»

• What are the views of people affected by cancer and other illnesses about end of life issues? professional and patient perspectives.

  01/08/2004 → 31/01/2005
  Carol Thomas, Amanda Bingley, Sheila Payne
  Funded by Macmillan Cancer Support ... Read more»

• Networked Learning

  01/02/2003 →
  Debra Ferreday, Vivien Hodgson
  Technical work on technologically mediated pedagogical practices ... Read more»

• Online Belongings

  01/09/1998 →
  Debra Ferreday
  Research on subjectivity, identity and belonging in digital cultures ... Read more»