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DEAR and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender co-host event looking at LGBTQ+ staff in the cishetmononormative university
In early May, DEAR Centre and CSWG welcomed and from UCL to 糖心TV for a doctoral gathering to hear about and discuss their research titled LGBTQ+ staff in the cishetmononormative university. The talk drew on their study finding that have been recently accepted as a paper for publication in the.
Their study involved semi鈥憇tructured interviews with 81 LGBTQ+ staff at UCL, a Russell Group university in London. The findings highlighted how cisnormativity and mononormativity emerged as distinct yet interconnected dimensions of heteronormativity in staff accounts.
To capture the entanglement of sexuality, gender, and relationship norms that shaped those experiences, they proposed the term 鈥榗ishetmononormativity鈥�. Through the presentation, they explored how the concept helped illuminate the structural and everyday mechanisms through which inequalities are (re)produced in higher education. Later in the session, they invited seminar participants to consider its potential for understanding, and transforming, the working lives of the most marginalised LGBTQ+ staff.
The study report can be accessed at
The event marked a first co-hosting of events between DEAR and CSWG, which is hoped to be an ongoing collaboration.
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