Hannah Yoken, PhD student at the University of Glasgow:
Published: 16 February 2021
'What made my experience of the MSc especially rewarding were the close social and professional ties formed during the course.'
The year spent completing the MSc was an intensive, yet highly rewarding. The core classes provided me with a strong theoretical, methodological and conceptual foundation in gender history. I also benefitted from the interdisciplinary flexibility of the MSc course: in addition to the classes organised by the history department, I was able to choose from classes within e.g. Central and Eastern European Studies (CEES) and sociology. Furthermore, the Centre for Gender History’s seminar series enabled me to engage with new and interesting research within my own field.
What made my experience of the MSc especially rewarding were the close social and professional ties formed during the course. Via the course’s core classes and Hufton Postgraduate Reading Group, I met like-minded people with a shared interest in issues surrounding e.g. feminism and gender equality. Many of us remain friends and colleagues to this day. I also began to work closely with my doctoral supervisors already during the MSc course, while writing various PhD and funding applications.
I graduated from the MSc Gender History programme in the fall of 2016. At the time of graduating, I had already started my doctoral degree at the University of Glasgow. My research focuses on the transnational development of feminist activism in the Nordic countries from the 1960s to the 1990s and is supervised by Dr Maud Bracke and Professor Lynn Abrams. The project is fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in doctoral partnership with the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities. As part of my PhD studies I have done extensive fieldwork in Finland, Sweden and Denmark. In the fall of 2018 I was a visiting doctoral researcher at Stockholm University and The Swedish Labour Movement’s Archives and Library.
First published: 16 February 2021