Feminist Perspectives and Methodologies

South West Doctoral Training Partnership

The third online session in the SWDTP Feminist Perspectives webinar series 2022.

Feminist Perspectives webinar series 2022

Through a series of 3-4 webinars, we will explore the rich potential of Feminist Perspectives to inform the conceptualisation and design of research in the social sciences. The series aims to stimulate dialogue between researchers of all stages.

Taking inspiration from the epistemological and theoretical critiques and developments in feminisms, feminist methods and methodologies are about more than just including women in research or women studying women. Feminist methods tend to offer a challenge to knowledge production itself interlinked with feminist political intent, ethical processes, egalitarianism, and the examination of power, dominance, inequality, or discrimination. This webinar will provide an introduction to the history of feminist methods in concert with the growth of feminist thought. We illustrate both specific methodologies developed in and through feminist thought, and how feminist thought can be brought to bear on other methods and methodologies (e.g., interviews, fieldwork, ethnography, media studies), as well as on other aspects of the research process (e.g., ethics, representation).

<h3>Speakers</h3><ul><li><a href="https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/bryan-clift" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bryan Clift</a>, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Qualitative Research and Dept for Health, University of Bath
</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/elissaoconnell" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ellie O’Connell</a>, PhD Researcher, School of Education, University of Bristol
</li><li><a href="https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/jessica-francombe-webb" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jessica Francombe-Webb</a>, Senior Lecturer, Department for Health &amp; Institute for Policy Research (IPR), University of Bath
</li></ul>

<h2>About the webinar series</h2>Feminist perspectives have inspired a diverse range of theoretical and methodological innovations in social research over decades. Different forms of feminism have generated new disciplines and sub-disciplines, from women’s studies, masculinities studies and queer studies to feminist security studies and eco-feminism, many of which have emerged from debates and challenges between feminists. Feminists have led the way in developing philosophical insights, methodological innovations and analytical tools for researching complex social problems, revealing not only their gendered dimensions but multiple intersecting forms of oppression, inequality and dominance underlying and generating them. Feminist thought has historically evolved within the crucible of social movements and has from time to time been challenged, bifurcated, reshaped and reinvigorated within these movements.Meanwhile feminist perspectives continue to inspire activists and contemporary social movements such as the International Women’s Strike, the #MeToo movement, secondary school students’ exposure of rape culture in their schools, the global anti-street harassment movement and women’s environmental movements (to name just a very few).

Through a series of 3-4 webinars, we will explore the rich potential of Feminist Perspectives to inform the conceptualisation and design of research in the social sciences. Over the course of three webinars, we will invite established academics, activists, early career and doctoral researchers to talk about why they are feminists, the forms of feminism that have inspired their work and, crucially, how feminist analytical perspectives have been productive in the conceptualisation, design and conduct of their research.

The webinar series aims to stimulate dialogue between researchers at various stages of their careers and with different degrees of knowledge and commitment to feminist perspectives. While particularly aimed at doctoral researchers, it is open to academics and non-academics from across different disciplines within and beyond the five institutions that make up the South West Doctoral Training Partnership.

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