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Do you have a bit of writing to work on but struggle to find the space and time to properly focus on it? Do you find it easier to focus when you're in a room with other people who are also working on their writing? Then join us for the CSWG writing sessions, a morning when staff and students get together in the same room to work on their writing independently, but in the company of others!

These sessions are open to both staff and students (UG, PGT and PGR). They will run during the Autumn Term, as follows:

• Week 5: Friday 6 November, 9 am – 1 pm
• Week 7: Friday 20 November, 9 am – 1 pm
• Week 9: Friday 4 December, 9 am - 1 pm

Sessions will be held in S1.50, located in the Social Sciences Building. Advance registration is not required - just turn up!

Sessions will be based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, in which sessions are facilitated and divided into a series of fixed, timed writing slots, with everyone working silently and independently, in the same room at the same time. Details on how the sessions will run are outlined below.

Plans for the Sessions
We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop writing. Writing blocks will typically last 30–45 minutes or up to 1 hour, with 10-minute breaks in between. The facilitator will use a timer, so you can focus entirely on your work without watching the clock.

We work to a policy of 'no surveillance', so you鈥檒l be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged (unless needed).

How to prepare?
To make the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake most of the reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

If necessary, you may use the sessions for preparatory tasks such as reading articles, provided this does not disturb others who are writing.

You are warmly invited to join us for a seminar on

Weaponising Safety: The Anti-Trans Backlash and the Carceral Politics of Gender in Britain

featuring Prof Sarah Lamble (Birkbeck)

This will take place as follows:

• Wednesday, November 18th
• 15.00 to 17.00
• in LIB2

Abstract:

What explains the rapid rise of the anti-trans backlash in Britain, and why have disputes about trans rights become so polarised? This talk will trace the weaponisations of safety claims, and the assertion that trans right pose a threat to women and children, as key tactics in the acceleration of the organised anti-trans movement in Britain. Such appeals draw on carceral logics that equate protection with surveillance, policing, exclusion, and punishment, while obscuring the structural conditions that produce material insecurity, violence and harm. Challenging the anti-trans backlash therefore requires more than defending trans people against demonising attacks; it requires a fundamental rethinking of safety politics more broadly and the carceral assumptions that underpin them. The talk will conclude by setting out a more transformative vision of safety, one that is rooted in collective care, socio-economic security and radical solidarity.

Speaker Bio:

Sarah Lamble is Professor of Criminology & Queer Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. Their research focusses on queer/feminist critiques of carceral politics, state violence, and the limits of punitive approaches to addressing harm. Lamble is co-founder of the Bent Bars Project, a letter-writing and solidarity project for LGBTQ+ prisoners in Britain, and Abolitionist Futures, which builds resources and education around alternatives to police, prisons and punishment. Lamble is the author of Unsafe: The carceral roots of the anti-trans backlash (Haymarket Books 2026).

This event is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, CLICK HERE.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

If you have accessibility requirements or there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, you can let us know through the booking page above.

This event is being organised by the Feminism, Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender.

Do you have a bit of writing to work on but struggle to find the space and time to properly focus on it? Do you find it easier to focus when you're in a room with other people who are also working on their writing? Then join us for the CSWG writing sessions, a morning when staff and students get together in the same room to work on their writing independently, but in the company of others!

These sessions are open to both staff and students (UG, PGT and PGR). They will run during the Autumn Term, as follows:

• Week 5: Friday 6 November, 9 am – 1 pm
• Week 7: Friday 20 November, 9 am – 1 pm
• Week 9: Friday 4 December, 9 am - 1 pm

Sessions will be held in S1.50, located in the Social Sciences Building. Advance registration is not required - just turn up!

Sessions will be based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, in which sessions are facilitated and divided into a series of fixed, timed writing slots, with everyone working silently and independently, in the same room at the same time. Details on how the sessions will run are outlined below.

Plans for the Sessions
We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop writing. Writing blocks will typically last 30–45 minutes or up to 1 hour, with 10-minute breaks in between. The facilitator will use a timer, so you can focus entirely on your work without watching the clock.

We work to a policy of 'no surveillance', so you鈥檒l be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged (unless needed).

How to prepare?
To make the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake most of the reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

If necessary, you may use the sessions for preparatory tasks such as reading articles, provided this does not disturb others who are writing.

Do you have a bit of writing to work on but struggle to find the space and time to properly focus on it? Do you find it easier to focus when you're in a room with other people who are also working on their writing? Then join us for the CSWG writing sessions, a morning when staff and students get together in the same room to work on their writing independently, but in the company of others!

These sessions are open to both staff and students (UG, PGT and PGR). They will run during the Autumn Term, as follows:

• Week 5: Friday 6 November, 9 am – 1 pm
• Week 7: Friday 20 November, 9 am – 1 pm
• Week 9: Friday 4 December, 9 am - 1 pm

Sessions will be held in S1.50, located in the Social Sciences Building. Advance registration is not required - just turn up!

Sessions will be based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, in which sessions are facilitated and divided into a series of fixed, timed writing slots, with everyone working silently and independently, in the same room at the same time. Details on how the sessions will run are outlined below.

Plans for the Sessions
We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop writing. Writing blocks will typically last 30–45 minutes or up to 1 hour, with 10-minute breaks in between. The facilitator will use a timer, so you can focus entirely on your work without watching the clock.

We work to a policy of 'no surveillance', so you鈥檒l be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged (unless needed).

How to prepare?
To make the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake most of the reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

If necessary, you may use the sessions for preparatory tasks such as reading articles, provided this does not disturb others who are writing.