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a new interdisciplinary research centre @sotonpolitics.bsky.social focusing on gender and inequalities | Subscribe to our mailing list! 📧Email: [email protected] | Website: https://tinyurl.com/4kchvk5h | Blog: https://tinyurl.com/38dkac5w

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Feb 24

Our new website is live! Check it out here to learn more about the new research centre: www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...

Gender and Inequalities Centre (GAIN)

Gender and Inequalities Centre (GAIN). Established to explore and address the pressing issues of gender and inequalities in social science, GAIN brings together scholars from across the university and...

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Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and Law @scclaw.bsky.social · 27d

Call for abstracts is now open for our workshop on AI and Equality 15 April 2026 in collaboration with the
@unisouthampton.bsky.social Law School's
Law and Technology Centre.
#AI #equality #law #workshop #conference

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Aug 1

@sotonpolitics.bsky.social @jess-smith.bsky.social @elizabethjevans.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Aug 1

📝On our blog, we reflect on the @psawomenpol.bsky.social y.social annual conference we hosted here at @unisouthampton.bsky.social ! We were delighted to bring together scholars from diverse disciplines who study gender and inequalities. generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/gain/2025/07...

Reflections from the PSA Women & Politics Annual Conference 2025 – Gender and Inequalities Research Centre, University of Southampton

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Fiona Buckley @fionamaybuckley.bsky.social · Jun 21

Thanks to @psawomenpol.bsky.social & @gain-centre.bsky.social for hosting a fab conference this week in @unisouthampton.bsky.social with excellent research, examining women, gender & politics. @jess-smith.bsky.social @elizabethjevans.bsky.social @emiliabelknap.bsky.social #LeahMcCabe #Southampton

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Dr Caroline Leicht @carolineleicht.bsky.social · Jun 20

It was fantastic to return to Southampton this week for the @psawomenpol.bsky.social @gain-centre.bsky.social conference. Always such a joy to be with this group of brilliant & supportive friends & colleagues ☀️ Thank you to the organizing team for a great conference & for bringing us all together!

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thank you for sharing your research with us!

Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 20

Event alert 🔔 organised by PhD Students at Uni of Winchester‼️ Gender and Agency Conference at the University of Winchester - Tuesday 24th of June 📝
Sign up form is here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 19

We would like to thank all of the attendees to our Troubled Times? conference; especially our presenters!
Missed our conference? 📝That's okay! We had live bsky updates so you can catch up on all the research and presenters we hosted with @psawomenpol.bsky.social ! Day 1 thread is below here 👇

Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 17

Today we are honoured to host @psawomenpol.bsky.social here at @unisouthampton.bsky.social for the PSA Women and Politics conference! Today we kick off Day 1 of 2 with three panels. (🧵🪡) !

Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

Our amazing panellists from our Feminist Histories, Nationalisms and Global Crises panel close with questions from the audience! 💪 ✏️📚

Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

Lastly, but certainly not least we have Melanie Dietz from Goethe Uni Frankfurt am Main who asks: Different Colors of the Same Rainbow? 🌈 Melanie analyses 📊 ideological polarisation and the social structure of gender issues!

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PSA Women and Politics @psawomenpol.bsky.social · Jun 18

The last panel of the day on 'Feminist Histories, Nationalisms and Global Crises' getting under way!

Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

Our last panel of the day is commenced by Dr Maki Kimura from UCL on religious, nationalism, militarism & gender inequality! Maki was part of a research network “Transforming Values: gender, religiosities & secularities across the globe” (2018-2022) & highlights moving from binaries. @ucl.ac.uk

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

Next, we welcome @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social from Uni of Bath who presents her work on feminist foreign policy 🌎 and the crisis of liberal international order. She explores the transition of the F-word (feminism) from some policy adoption to active rejection. What does the term feminism mean?

Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

We were delighted to see Yvonne and Fiona win the @psawomenpol.bsky.social Lifetime Achievement Award! So well deserved! We were inspired by celebrating these two trailblazers and hear their perspective on the past, present and future of studying gender and politics.

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

We closed our first day of our conference 🙌 with an In Conversation event celebrating the careers of Professor Fiona Mackay and Yvonne Galligan. 📖📚 Fiona and Yvonne led us down the “winding path” of their academic careers and offered their wisdom on feminist leadership and making space. 🎤

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

Panellists receive questions from the audience closing out our first panel of the day! An excellent and interesting panel

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

Closing this panel, @fionamaybuckley.bsky.social from Uni College Cork presents research with Prof Yvonne Galligan (Tech Uni Dublin) on party candidate strategy in the context of legislative gender quotas by assessing women’s electoral performance at the 2024 Irish 🇮🇪 general election 🗳️

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Sanwal Hussain Kharl @sanwalkharl.bsky.social · Jun 18

While celebrating their wonderful career as great scholar of gender and politics
Professor Fiona Mackay &
Professor Yvonne Galligan
@gain-centre.bsky.social , @psawomenpol.bsky.social

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thank you for presenting your super interesting work 🤓 congratulations!

Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

From @sotonpolitics.bsky.social we have PhD researcher 📚 Tom Guyton-Day presenting his work with @elizabethjevans.bsky.social on whether fewer tiers means fewer women? They explore this through the case of gender representation and local government reform in England.

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

Next, we welcome @ggomesdacosta.bsky.social from Fed. Uni of Pernambuco discusses queering political representation in Latin America with a specific focus on Brazil 🇧🇷 and Peru 🇵🇪!

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PSA Women and Politics @psawomenpol.bsky.social · Jun 18

Kicking off day 2 of our conference with @gain-centre.bsky.social. First up our panel on Participation, Representation and Inclusion beginning with @carolineleicht.bsky.social

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

Next we have ⭐️ Sanwal Hussain Kharl from @astonuniversity.bsky.social presenting research on the impact of technology of women’s political participation in the Global South 🔍

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · Jun 18

Early start 🌅 for Day 2 of our conference with @psawomenpol.bsky.social with @sotonpolitics.bsky.social Alum 🎓 @carolineleicht.bsky.social at Uni of Glasgow on her research on the glass ceiling and glass cliff of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris in US election coverage.

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