In the podcast series A Feminist Family History in Eight Lives Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas SFHEA narrates the lives of her grandmothers and six of her great grandmothers over ten generations in England, Scotland, Ireland and the colonial United States. A focus on everyday experiences of women and girls illuminates larger social questions and challenges the dominant narratives of genealogical and family history research. In this talk, Dr Carruthers Thomas considers what it means to tell a feminist family history - and why she chooses to tell it via podcast.
Kate is an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Gender in the Department of Education, College of Law and Social Sciences at Birmingham City University as well as an author of many publications (See below). She is also a Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University. Her research interests are gender and contemporary higher education, academic writing practices, and creative research methodologies. Kate is also an illustrator and poet and uses both in the dissemination of her research.
She is Co-Convenor of a national research network: Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic (HEC19) hosted by the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE).
Kate leads the Athena Swan Charter across BCU and is an Equalities Charter Associate (Athena Swan) for Advance HE.
Recent Publications
(2024) 'Five Survive Lockdown': Revisualising Survey Data as a Graphic Novella. In H. Kara, D.Mannay and A.Roy (eds.) The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis. Bristol: Policy Press.Carruthers Thomas, K. (2024). COVID-19 and female academics' research productivity in the United Kingdom. In S.Acker, Ylijoki, H-O and McGinn, M.K.(eds.) The Social Production of Research: Perspectives on Funding and Gender. London: Routledge.Carruthers Thomas, K. (2023) Fast, Slow, Ongoing. Female academics' experiences of time and change during COVID-19. Area. DOI: 10.1111/area.12894
Event Details
The event will commence at 1830 with an opportunity for networking over tea/coffee, allowing you to meet like minded individuals, members, guest and our board of trustees.
The event will take place at PHTA Ltd, No 1 BHIC, Birmingham Health Innovation Campus, Aston Webb Boulevard, Birmingham.
Car parking is available on site.
