Community engagement is essential for ethical and timely research in sex, gender and sexuality studies. This event will facilitate dialogue between activists and scholars on how best to do sexualities research in response to community concerns. We invite scholars who are at any level (undergraduate, postgraduate, early career etc.) to come and take part in the workshop.

On the afternoon of Friday 20th September, we will host a workshop structured around a panel discussion with three LGBTIQ+ activists. This event will be led by Valentino Vecchietti who is an intersex activist and human rights campaigner in the UK. They founded the charity Intersex Equality Rights UK, and are a stakeholder for the UK Government Equalities Office.

The workshop will start at 12:00 (a vegetarian lunch will be provided) and finish at 4:30pm. More details can be found on the FUTURESEX website.

This event is completely free, thanks to generous sponsorship from the Wellcome Trust. We particularly want to encourage PhD students and Early Career Researchers to attend.

We also have a number of small travel bursaries to support individuals to attend. Once registered, please email futuresexmail@gmail.com with an estimate of travel costs if you want to apply for one of these bursaries.

The event is followed by a free wine and canape reception, and a public lecture from Prof Surya Monro on sexuality studies and community activism. This event is also free but you also need to register for that event on the separate registration page here.

Registrations are closed

FUTURESEX: Activism & Academia