Dear UK friends and colleagues,

This event may be of interest to PhD students and postdocs working around gender and sexuality.

Warm wishes,

Zeena

Building a Feminist Research Career in Anti-Feminist Times 

Roundtables

Wednesday, 10 June

9.00-16.00 (followed by a networking reception)

King’s College London, Strand Campus

Register here

Registration deadline: 22 May 2026 at midday BST

Building a Feminist Research Career in Anti-Feminist Times is a one-day programme of roundtables organised by the CHASE Gender & Sexuality Research Network and hosted by Queer@King’s. The day will focus on the unique challenges faced by early-career researchers (and activist scholars) doing work around gender and sexuality in UK universities today. 

Topics we will cover include:

• The contemporary funding landscape of UK academia

• Emerging political shifts and how they affect our work

• Navigating the job market as an early-career queer and/or feminist scholar

• Safeguarding against burnout, isolation and exploitation

• Care and community-building in the neoliberal university

• Resisting careerism (while having a career) 

We will close the day with an Ask Us Anything expert panel with the option to submit questions anonymously. This event is designed to offer advice and community-led support to later-stage PhD students (i.e. those preparing to enter the job market) as well as postdoctoral researchers and other early-career scholars. The day will conclude with a networking social at a local pub. 

Please note that registering may not guarantee a place and we will operate a waitlist if needed. If selected, you will be emailed invitations with joining instructions in advance of the event.

About CHASE Gender and Sexuality Research Network

Struggles over the rights and freedoms of women, queer and transgender people are increasingly at the centre of the political zeitgeist, yet academic research that equips us to understand and navigate these struggles is increasingly politicised and systemically threatened. CHASE GSRN is a peer-to-peer support infrastructure for scholars engaged in gender and sexuality research, with a particular emphasis on building capacity across institutions and uplifting postgraduate researchers (PGRs) who are working in a national context of decreased prioritisation and institutional support for producing robust knowledge about non-normative sexualities and genders, and the inequalities attendant to those identities. The co-directors of CHASE GSRN are Professor Tanya Serisier (Birkbeck), Dr Zeena Feldman (King’s College London) and Dr Kat Higgins (Goldsmiths).

If you would like to join our mailing list, you can sign up at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A0=GENDER-SEXUALITIES.