EVENT | Feminist Café November 2025
The University of Glasgow Gender and Sexualities Interdisciplinary Network warmly invites you to its November 2025 Feminist Café on November 27, 1-2:30pm.
Gender and Sexualities Interdisciplinary Network
About Us
The Gender and Sexualities Interdisciplinary Network (GSIN) is an established network that brings together researchers at the University of Glasgow with an interest in gender and sexualities broadly construed. It is an initiative which grew from the Addressing Inequalities Interdisciplinary Research Theme in the College of Social Sciences, with the aim of fostering collaborative research across and beyond the University of Glasgow.
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EVENT | Feminist Café 2025
The University of Glasgow Gender and Sexualities Interdisciplinary Network warmly invites you to its 2025 Pride Month Feminist Café on June 13, 11am-1pm. We will be welcoming Professor of Law and Social Theory Aleardo Zanghellini from the University of Reading who will deliver a talk “Rationalising exclusion: conceptual, metaphysical and interpretive claims about trans (wo)manhood”.
Network Leads
Prof Lynaa Brams
Subject: History
Professor Brams is primarily an historian of gender and gender relations from the late 18th century to the present in Britain (including Scotland) and Europe.
Dr Ana Cannilla
Subject: Law
Dr Cannilla’s research is focused on feminist legal theory, constitutional law and jurisprudence.
Dr Tanya Cheadle
Subject: History
Dr Cheadle is an historian of modern gender and sexuality, with a particular interest in masculinities, progressive subcultures, and esoteric beliefs in a Scottish and Global context, c.1870-1920.
Dr Saurabh Lall
Subject: International Business
Dr Lall is interested in gender and entrepreneurship and small business development. His current research focuses on testing ways to make financing more easily accessible to women entrepreneurs using field experiments and observational data.
Dr Sam Lawton
Subject: Sociology
Dr. Lawton is an interdisciplinary researcher of bisexuality, with research focusing on masculinity, relationships, sexual identity and prejudice.
Dr Sonja Marzi
Subject: Sociology
Dr Marzi’s research focuses on gendered inequalities in urban spaces. This includes: resistance to multiple forms of violence, violence and (chronic) trauma, displacement, women's activism & participation, feminist geographies, qualitative and feminist research methodology, participatory (visual) methods, remote qualitative and participatory research.
Dr Nick Mayhew
Subject: Russian
Dr Mayhew’s research explores queer gender and sexuality in Russian and Church Slavonic culture. Nick is particularly interested in bringing queerness to light in contexts that are commonly deemed conservative and heteronormative, such as within the Russian Orthodox Church. His publications focus mainly on the early modern period, but he soon hopes to start working on a new project titled "Queer Christianities in Modern Russian Literature."
Dr Barbara Read
Subject: Education
Dr Read’s research regards gender and student/staff experiences in HE; Gender and the disciplines; Academic work/life and social precarity.
Dr Samuel Rutherford
Subject: History
Dr Rutherford is Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality. His research focuses predominantly on gender and sexuality in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century British Isles.
Dr Samuel Rutherford
Subject: Sociology
Dr Saunder’s research focuses on gender, class, sexual and reproductive health, reproductive justice, feminist theory and qualitative methodologies.
Prof Alex Shepard
Subject: History
Professor Shepard’s current research is focused on gender, work and care in Britain between 1660 and 1815. Shepard has published widely on the history of masculinity and patriarchy, on the intersection of gender and social inequalities, and on gender and the law in the early modern period.
Dr Matthew Waites
Subject: Sociology
Dr Waites research is in international political sociology and global historical sociology on sexualities, genders and queer politics in relation to colonialisms.
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Our Network Aims and Objectives
We aim to create a vibrant and collaborative research community dedicated to advancing knowledge and good practices in the fields of gender and sexualities from different disciplines.
Our primary objective is to facilitate meaningful connections and fruitful collaborations among academics, PGR students, and stakeholders with an interest in gender studies, feminism, LGBTQ+ studies, and social justice. To achieve our goals, we organise in-person and on-line events that provide an inclusive and welcoming space for GSIN members. These events serve as opportunities for networking, socialising, knowledge exchange and sharing research expertise. We run work-in-progress sessions for staff to disseminate and test new ideas in a collaborative environment, and we regularly host members of local community groups, organisations, and charities to share their experiences and initiatives with us. We also provide specialised support to colleagues seeking academic funding for their research projects in areas that are relevant to the GSIN. This support includes flagging relevant funding calls to members of the network and assisting throughout the funding application process.