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DEAR Centre & CSWG Co-Hosted Event: LGBTQ+ Staff in the Cishetmononormative University
The DEAR Centre and CSWG invite you to a co-hosted event on "LGBTQ+ Staff in the Cisheteronormative University", featuring Professor Simon J. Lock (UCL) and Dr Emma Jones (UCL)
The event takes place on 5th May, from 11:30am to 1:30pm, 糖心TV University Main Campus. Venue details will be shared with registered attendees.
The event schedule is:
- DEAR/CSWG doctoral group session with the invited speakers 11:30am-12:30pm
- Convivial refreshments 12:30-1:00pm
- Speaker talk & discussion: 1:00-2:00pm
The event is in two parts. The first part, from 11:30am to 12:30pm, is open to DEAR Centre and CSWG PGR students only. The second part, from 12:30pm to 2:00pm is free and open to all but prior registration is required. To Register, please click HERE
About the talk
This talk draws on a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Gender and Education. We present findings from semi鈥憇tructured interviews with 81 LGBTQ+ staff at a Russell Group university in London, highlighting how cisnormativity and mononormativity emerge as distinct yet interconnected dimensions of heteronormativity in their accounts. To capture the entanglement of sexuality, gender, and relationship norms that shape these experiences, we propose the term 鈥榗ishetmononormativity鈥�. We will explore how this concept helps illuminate the structural and everyday mechanisms through which inequalities are (re)produced in higher education, and we invite seminar participants to consider its potential for understanding, and transforming, the working lives of the most marginalised LGBTQ+ staff.
About the speakers
Professor Simon J Lock (he/they)
Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL
Simon Lock is Professor of Science, Politics and Culture in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at UCL. Their current research and teaching is focused in the field of Queer STS which aims to unpick the heteronormative, gendered, racialised and ableist architectures within and around cultures of science and knowledge production. More broadly they focus on science and knowledge in public and research cultures, with a particular focus on social justice in science communication, higher education and policy.
Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment, UCL
Emma Jones is a Lecturer in Gender and Education at the UCL Institute of Education. Her research, teaching, and institutional citizenship advance gender and LGBTQ+ equity and justice, grounded in a reflexive commitment to how marginalised knowledges are produced, valued, and excluded within educational spaces. A central thread in her scholarship is the development and teaching of critical feminist and decolonial research methodologies, through which she works to challenge dominant epistemologies and expand possibilities for more inclusive and transformative forms of knowledge-making.