📣New research from Gender Studies colleagues! Melanie, @profkarenboyle.bsky.social and Melody discuss ‘safety work’ in HE classrooms and the need to move beyond the illusion of safety to instead create conducive learning spaces for all. Read open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣Today we launched our manifesto for Holyrood 2026. We're asking politicians to commit to 3 asks that will improve conditions for women working in culture, media, arts and the creative industries in Scotland. Read the manifesto: bit.ly/4mHKyWE

@strathfem.bsky.social seminar series restarts this acad year with @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social's talk on a report coauthored with Bulgarian feminist NGO LevFem #carework #whocares @strath-gender.bsky.social @strath-ioe.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/mariya-iva...

Visiting Reader at @strathjmc.bsky.social Professor Angela Smith @alengasmith.bsky.social talks to our grad students about turning their PhDs into books @strath-gender.bsky.social

We are pleased to be bringing back our Speed Mentoring Event to @meccsa2025.bsky.social Join us to meet and learn from fellow researchers in the field of media, communications and cultural studies! Sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

Despite growing suspicion and attacks on cultural and gender studies programmes, graduates are thriving! An insightful and important read to start your Monday off with 🎉 msmagazine.com/2025/07/20/c...

📣JOB OPPORTUNITY📣 Rape Crisis Ayrshire are looking for a new Sexual Violence prevention worker, deadline 22 August. A perfect role for one of our past or current Strath-Gender students! See here for more details: www.starcentreayrshire.org/prevention-ad/

📢 Article Alert! "To warn or not to warn? Trigger warnings in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences in UK HE", by JMC researchers @profkarenboyle.bsky.social, Melanie McCarry & Melody House, has been selected for the Journal of Gender-Based Violence Editors’ Collection Choice! 👏 🆓 Free access here:

An article by our Gender-Studies colleagues has been selected to feature in the Editors’ Choice collection for the Journal of Gender-Based Violence! 🎉 Their article, which looks at the use of Trigger Warnings in HE, can be accessed for free here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit...

📢 Please share with your networks and anyone you think might be interested! 📢 I'm looking for participants for my research project on young women's understanding of paid work on and through social media, including phenomena such as the #girlboss #corporatequeen or #lazygirljobs.

📣Research participants wanted! 📣Great opportunity for students (and friends!) who wouldn’t want a £30 voucher for furthering research!? 😃

📢 New research shows women face barriers & abuse as political candidates. In our new report, we wanted to dig deep & explore the candidate journey for women, from preparing to stand as a candidate, including interview & vetting processes, to being elected & what happens after 🧵⬇

Our new report was covered by @hannahmargbrown.bsky.social, highlighting how women across all major Scottish parties face entrenched sexism, opaque selection processes, caring barriers & widespread abuse. Read the full report here: www.engender.org.uk/news/blog/en...

📣 The political space is becoming increasingly hostile, with marginalised women & groups facing widespread sexism & abuse. Our new report highlights the barriers & abuse women face as political candidates 🧵⬇

📣 New Free Event! 📣 our students might be interested in the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture’s free online event on anti-feminist backlash and how we fight it TODAY at 3pm. Book your place here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ctrl-hate-...

New article 📚: @redikoobak.bsky.social and Madina Tlostanova discuss decolonial feminist aesthetics and sensibilities in the films ‘Forty Days of Silence’ (2014) and ‘Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’ (2023) read it open access here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join us for the second of our three summer working groups in collaboration with Culture Counts! You do not need to have attended a prior session to come along. Find out more: bit.ly/3Ie2B8w

Team News 📣: The European Journal of Women’s Studies, run by our Redi Koobak, has earned an Impact Factor of 1.8 for the year 2024 🎉 EJWS is stably ranked in Q1 in their reference category (Women’s Studies). An indication of the exciting research community we offer our students. Congrats Redi!

*Student job opportunity* We're looking for two Library/IT Student Ambassadors. These are paid roles requiring 10 hours' work per week. Work can be scheduled around your uni timetable. The closing date is Monday 14 July. For more information see: www.strathunion.com/jobs/vacancy...

Our brilliant student, Christie, shared some thoughts and experiences on the Applied Gender Studies masters course with our marketing team 🌟🎓 check it out here: eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Read our latest blog, by guest contributor Anna McFatridge of @strath-gender.bsky.social on the media's role in shaping narratives on harassment: shorturl.at/j8nao

Guest post: "Why did they let this go on?" Anna McFatridge, MSc student at @strath-gender.bsky.social shares her research into how the media frames harassment as an institutional problem. bit.ly/43QXEcX

This week we're joined on the blog by Ursula Grant, @strath-gender.bsky.social MSc student, who explores what feminist leadership is, and why the culture sector needs it. Read her blog now: bit.ly/3ZD4dhJ

In her second blog for us, Ursula Grant of @strath-gender.bsky.social dives into transformative feminist leadership practice. Read her take: bit.ly/4mD1M8T

Out in print today 📚: Research from @profkarenboyle.bsky.social, Dr Emma Flynn, Dr Chamil Rathnayake and Melody House on oppositional and asymmetrical versions of believability in the Depp/Heard case. Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Brilliant talk today by Professor Emeritus Angela McRobbie on 50 years of her study on girlhood 👏👏 much food for thought on how to sustain feminist interventions in popular culture and the ever increasing importance on feminist academics to keep up the resistance 💪

Fantastic event hosted by The Sideline Podcast and Strath-Gender alum Amanda Aitken last night 👏 as Laura Montgomery said, the media still has a long way to go before it is representing women’s sport equally, and documentaries like this show us what we are missing! ⚽️🏆

📣 New Free Event! 📣 The Sidline Podcast is hosting a screening of ‘The Women Who Built Glasgow City’ followed by a Q&A with the director and founders! A must for those interest in gender and sport ⚽️ Tuesday, 1 April | 7 PM 📍The Social Hub Glasgow www.eventbrite.com/e/the-women-...

📣 Upcoming Event with Strath's Feminist Network! 📣 Join us as we welcome Professor Emeritus Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths) for a discussion on 50 years of the feminist sociology of girlhood. Wednesday, 2 April | 1:00–2:30 PM 📍 Room TL 455, Strathclyde Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/angela-mcr...

Meet the team! 👥 Melody House is a new Teaching Associate on the Gender Studies course. Her research interests are focused on gender, violence, feminism, and reputation. You can read her latest publication here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Meet the team! 👥 Dr Sophie Jones is a lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Gender Studies. Her research interests are in post-1945 US literature and film, gender, disability, and the critical medical humanities. You can read her latest publication here: mh.bmj.com/content/50/4...

Meet the team! 👥 Dr Redi Koobak is a feminist cultural studies scholar specialising in critical studies of postcolonial and postsocialist Europe. Her expertise includes global perspectives on gender, race, sexuality and more. Read Redi's latest publication here: journals.ispan.edu.pl/index.php/sl...

Meet the team! 👥 Prof Karen Boyle is a Professor of Feminist Media Studies and the Head of Department of Humanities here at Strathclyde. Her research is focused on questions of violence, gender and representation. You can read her latest publication here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Hello #AcademicSky! We are the team behind the Applied Gender Studies masters course @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Follow for updates on our amazing students, faculty projects, groundbreaking research, events and more! 📣📚