The University of Greenwich (UoG) will be able to offer PhD supervision on Intersectional Gender Inequalities, as part of the interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Pathway of the UCL, Bloomsbury and East London Doctoral training partnership (UBEL DTP) with PhD scholarships funded by the ESRC.
The interdisciplinary themed pathway engages with a broad range of societal challenges emerging at the intersection of gender equality, social inclusion, and justice; and uses multi-disciplinary perspectives to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment. Students are supervised by world-leading social scientists in key disciplines including economics, sociology, criminology, education, psychology, development studies, business, politics, and law, with leading experts from associated disciplinary areas of literature, history, languages, art and design introducing a valuable arts and humanities perspective to the social science programme (see details of supervisors below).
Potential applicants need to apply through the UBEL website (https://ubel-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-studentships-main-competition/ ) and should read carefully the guidance given there.
Our research initiatives in this area are co-ordinated by the Centre for Communities and Social Justice, within the broader Institute for Inclusive Communities and Environments, Centres of Inequalities and Centre for Vulnerable Children and Families, within the Institute for Lifecourse Development, Centres for Research in Employment and Work and Centre of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability at the Greenwich Business School and the Gender and Social Difference group within the world-leading Natural Resource Institute.
Our research is highly inter and transdisciplinary with work on gender and intersectionality addressing: gendered human rights, gender based violence, employment, income and wealth inequality; care economy, green economy; food systems and nutrition s; governance and rights of/to land and nature ; climate change and environmental sustainability; ‘race’, intersections of ‘race’, ethnicity, class, disability, Indigeneity, LGBTQIA+ inequalities care work, migration and gender economics; reproductive rights and global health; children, families and communities, crime and deviance, social reproduction, political ecology and cultural studies. We also offer training in feminist, intersectional decolonizing and global south research methodologies including research co-production, participatory action research and creative, art-based practices.
A key indicator of the excellence and research impact of Intersectional Gender Inequalities research is the engagement of UoG staff on government advisory panels. For example, Onaran was invited by the Korean Development Institute in 2017-18, the Brazilian government funded research institute of Applied Economics Forsythe was invited to participate in the Global Food Security Summit in November, and an invited speaker on GBV and food systems with UN women and FAO.
We have a large pool of potential supervisors. Some of these, especially Ade-Ojo, Jameson, Monks, Onaran, Pacella, Reynolds, Vacchelli are experienced supervisors having supervised multiple PhDs to completion. Others listed may be newer to PhD supervision, including ECRs, but have highly relevant research experience and interests.
For discussion on proposed projects for a UBEL application, please contact at most two of the named supervisors below, following the guidance on the UBEL website, well ahead of the application deadline. Ozlem Onaran (o.onaran@gre.ac.uk) is available to answer questions by candidates interested in a PhD with a focus on feminist economics.
The deadline for preliminary applications via the UBEL website for entry in September 2024 is 15th January 2024. We are also committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, increasing and widening the participation of groups that are traditionally under-represented in PhD research and scholarship.
We currently have 19 PhD students working on social science topics related to gender and intersectional gender inequalities. These students benefit from the wider facilities and opportunities enjoyed by UoG 500 students, including a flourishing Doctoral Society.
Under University of Greenwich regulations, each research student is supervised by a team of three supervisors. Further details of potential supervisors are given below, please visit their webpages for a fuller account of their research interests.
List of supervisors
Supervisor | Indicative Research Interests | |
Tracey Reynolds* | Gender constructions of black womanhood and sexuality; gendered ‘race’ and migration; intersectional inequalities and intimate relationships, black maternal health | |
Ozlem Onaran | Gender gaps in income, employment and wealth, paid and unpaid care work, climate change and gender, gendering macroeconomics and development, equality-led growth, feminist economics |
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Cem Oyvat | Gender gaps in wages and employment, care economy, feminist macroeconomic models, gender gaps in developing economies, climate change and gender inequalities, feminist economics | |
Robert Calvert Jump | Shorter working weeks, potentially with application to gender gaps in working hours | |
Yuliya Yurchenko | Sex, gender, and feminism; materiality of sexed & gendered inequalities; spatio-temporal idiosyncrasies and political economy of intersectional othering; decolonising the de-/post-colonial epistemological gaze; progressiveness vs regressive reification in material cultures of gender | |
Maria Nikolaidi | ||
Ana Marr | ||
Antonella Russo | ||
Giulia Zampini | Drug policy, morality, harm reduction; Sex work/prostitution policy and feminism(s); gender and prison education; participatory methods, qualitative comparative methods; feminist epistemologies and autoethnography. | |
Stacy Banwell | Feminist and queer analyses of wartime rape and sexual violence; intersectional violence, atrocity crimes and climate change; eco-feminism and gendered reproductive violence against human and nonhuman populations; gender and green criminology more broadly; multi-species justice. | |
Alexandra Fanghanel | Gender, sexuality and public space; Fear of crime and securitisation; Sexual consent; Rape myths and rape culture; ‘rough sex’ defence; sadomasochism; using legal data for research | |
Misha Myers | Feminist approaches to socially engaged, performance and arts-based methods to respond to social inequalities, gendered oppression and violence; Feminist digital humanities and data feminism. | |
Claire Donovan | Gender and Higher Education careers; gender and (biblio)metrics; women’s careers in (social) science; gendered innovations in social sciences and humanities research. | |
Madeline Petrillo | Women’s experiences of the justice system; women’s pathways into and out of crime; gender-responsive and trauma-informed practice; women’s experiences of victimisation and abuse | |
Jill Jameson | Online grooming of young people, notably young women, in social media; hate crime re. women in vulnerable communities; higher educational leadership for women; trust and leadership for women. | |
Gordon Ade-Ojo | 2nd language acquisition and use. The foci include the process of acquisition and its impact on learning, learners and society at large. This extends to issues around inclusion and equity. | |
Priti Chopra | Participatory research for the prevention of gender-based violence; intersecting identities, global teacher education and social justice; intercultural and inclusive trauma-informed learning design | |
Rosana Pacella | Impact of violence on health and wellbeing, and the effectiveness of interventions to prevent and mitigate long-term consequences of violence, optimise trajectories and improve intrinsic capacity and daily functioning across the life course | |
Lora Forsythe | Critical (feminist, intersectional and decolonial) theory and methods to understand (in)equity and transformative change in the context of agriculture, food, climate and natural systems to contribute to social justice. Subject expertise in gender-based violence; food and nutrition security; climate change; governance and rights of/to land and nature; equity and justice in agricultural markets, and food cultures. Mixed-methods and arts-based approaches. | |
Adrienne Martin | Gender, agriculture and food systems. Intersectionality, decoloniality and the role of technology. | |
Valerie Nelson | Gender, intersectionalities and socio-ecological change: using relational, political ecology and arts-based theory and methods to understand identities, structures, relations and politics in contemporary, future and strange natures. More-than-human, multi-species justice and emotional ecology, decoloniality perspectives welcomed. | |
Fiorella Picchioni | Feminist political economy of food; Social reproduction and food systems; gendered and racialised food work; mixed-methods and place-based approaches; applied and theoretical research welcomed | |
June Po | Geographies of care, eco-feminism, diaspora and network dynamics, gender and land tenure, social norms, informal safety nets, reciprocity, systems of oppression, knowledge and institutions | |
Marco Palillo | Masculinities, refugee studies, racialisation and racism, migration governance, humanitarianism, structural vulnerabilities, sexuality, social policy, intersectionality, postcoloniality, Mediterranean studies | |
Jessica Simpson | reproduction of intersectional oppressions, specifically in Higher Education and the labour markets; sex work, stigma and social exclusion; feminist and queer research methodologies. |
