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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde

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Welcome to Strathclyde’s MSc Applied Gender Studies. Email: hass-hum-genderstudiespd@strath.ac.uk For more information: www.strath.ac.uk/courses/postgradua…

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Journalism, Media & Communication - Strathclyde @strathjmc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Starting now! BBC Academy brought BBC Verify on tour to Strayhclyde in a partnership with JMC. We’re kicking off a series of events and workshops with 200+ high school pupils and Strath students. Strath is the only uni in Scotland hosting this event.
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 15/02/2026
"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds." #MsReads via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
📣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/...
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Equal Media & Culture Centre for Scotland @emcc-scotland.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📣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
A mustard yellow square with the EMCC logo top left. On the right is a graphic illustration of three women. One has purple hair and white skin, another has red hair and pink skin, and the third has brown hair and brown skin. They are smiling and wearing colourful clothes. To the left of the illustration is the text in white: Transforming Culture for a Fairer Future. Our manifesto for Holyrood 2026.
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Strath_Fem @strathfem.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
@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...
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Michael Higgins @michaelhiggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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
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MeCCSA Women's Network @meccsawomensnet.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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...
Poster for The MeCCSA Women’s Network Speeding Mentoring Event for any PhDs and ECRs wanting advice on academic careers, networking opportunities and/or tips for professional development. There is a QR code embedded for signing up, or alternatively you can click the link in the post
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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...
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Our Graduates' Successes: What the Data Tells Us About the Value of Women's and Gender Studies Degrees
Despite political attacks, data shows graduates of cultural and gender studies programs are equipped with skills in demand in the workforce.
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
📣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/
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Sexual Violence Prevention Worker Vacancy
Sexual Violence Prevention Worker Job Vacancy
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Journalism, Media & Communication - Strathclyde @strathjmc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
📢 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:
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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...
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Nathalie Weidhase @nweidhase.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
📢 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.
Do you identify as a woman and are aged between 18
and 30?
Do you use social media?
How do you feel about representations of paid work
on social media?
I am looking for women (including those identifying as non-binary and trans women) from all backgrounds who engage with work-related content on social to discuss their experiences. You do not need to be currently employed to take part in this study.

The interview will take approximately one hour and will be conducted online. You will be asked to bring in a meme relating to work – either one you found, or one you created yourself.

You will receive a £30 voucher for taking part in the
interview. Sign up to show interest by filling out this form: https://surreyfbel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aY6hOtqQ7BAaLQy

For more details, please contact the researcher Nathalie
Weidhase at n.weidhase@surrey.ac.uk The project is
funded by a British Academy Small Research Grant, and
has received ethical approval from the University of
Surrey Ethics Committee (Ref. Ethics RM ID: 1298). End of
recruitment period: December 2025.
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
📣Research participants wanted! 📣Great opportunity for students (and friends!) who wouldn’t want a £30 voucher for furthering research!? 😃
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Engender @engenderscot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
📢 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 🧵⬇
Graphic with purple text on a light pink background that reads 'We asked over 150 women what it's like to stand as a political candidate. Here's what they told us' Alongside illustrations including a mobile phone showing a woman candidate receiving online abuse on social media and pop up text messages with misconceptions about women's participation in politics.
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Engender @engenderscot.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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...
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Engender @engenderscot.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
📣 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 🧵⬇
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
📣 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-...
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CTRL HATE DELETE: The New Anti-Feminist Backlash and How We Fight It
A conversation with Cécile Simmons, hosted by the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Loughborough University
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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...
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Decolonial feminist aesthetics and sensibilities in filmmaking
This article focuses on the corporeal, affective, creative worldings which are at the core of decolonial feminisms, allowing us to imagine life otherw…
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Equal Media & Culture Centre for Scotland @emcc-scotland.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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!
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University of Strathclyde Library & IT @unistrathlibit.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
*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...
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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...
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Equal Media & Culture Centre for Scotland @emcc-scotland.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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
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Equal Media & Culture Centre for Scotland @emcc-scotland.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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
A blurry photograph of a phone screen with apps on it. It's possible to read the BBC News app on the phone. Text overlaid is a quote from Anna McFatridge's research reading: "Institutions should be held accountable when they enable harmful behaviour. But so should the individuals responsible for that behaviour."
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Equal Media & Culture Centre for Scotland @emcc-scotland.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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
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Equal Media & Culture Centre for Scotland @emcc-scotland.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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
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Blog | Guest Post: Transformative Feminist Leadership in Action
Transformative feminist leadership in action, a blog by Ursula Grant
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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/...
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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 💪
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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! ⚽️🏆
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
📣 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-...
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The Women Who Built Glasgow City - Documentary Screening and Q&A
Founded in 1998 with aspirations to become a dominant force in Scottish football and Europe, this is the story of how trailblazers are made
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
📣 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...
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Angela McRobbie - What Is a/the Girl Today?
Eminent feminist scholar Angela McRobbie discusses the feminist sociology of girlhood over the last fifty years.
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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....
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From “borking” to getting “kavanaughed”: language, reputation, and the importance of a (male) name
This paper considers how conservative media reported on the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh which emerged during his 2018 confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court. Whilst the fo...
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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...
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Narrative futures of pregnancy sickness: reproduction, disability, animality
In Sarah Hall’s short story ‘Mrs Fox’, a man wakes to find his wife, Sophia, vomiting. When Sophia’s nausea continues, he imagines her wasting from a rare cancer; instead, she mutates into a fox and, ...
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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...
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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...
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#MeToo and Feminism
In this second edition, Boyle argues for the importance of understanding #MeToo in relation to an on-going history of feminist activism in the US and UK
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Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde @strath-gender.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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! 📣📚
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