UPDATE: MAY 2026 – this event is now fully booked with a long waitlist. We are not able to accept new additions to the waitlist.

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.

About the speakers

The CHASE Gender & Sexuality Research Network is organised by:

• Dr Zeena Feldman (KCL)
• Dr Kat Higgins (Goldsmiths)
• Prof Tanya Serisier (Birkbeck)

Other speakers include:

• Dr Sara de Benedictis (Brunel)
• Professor Avi Ben-Zeev (San Francisco State University)
• Professor Andrea Cornwall (KCL)
• Dr Jamie Hakim (KCL)
• Dr Akane Kanai (Warwick)
• Professor S. Lamble (Birkbeck)
• Professor Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths)
• Professor Catherine Rottenberg (Goldsmiths)
• Professor Christina Scharff (KCL)
• Dr Lexi Webster (Southampton)