Fostering a sense of belonging for higher education staff and students with caring responsibilities: A research- and art-based collaboration
International Women’s Day 2021
Carers are a group of particular significance to society, as they contribute precious time and energy to other people’s needs and, simply put, enable society to operate. Yet they are largely rendered invisible and misrecognised. This is particularly the case in academia where the figure of the ‘bachelor boy’ has long prevailed. Through the use of comics and other art forms (see, e.g., Moreau and Bernard, 2018), we want to challenge the status quo and turn academia in a place of belonging for students and staff with caring responsibilities.
Using the arts as a mode of dissemination does more than enhance accessibility and engage diverse publics with research topics and stories; the arts in general, and comics specifically, enable readers to simultaneously consider the parts and the whole. The contiguous images and words that characterise comic art allow readers to be challenged by individual carers' stories while also considering the larger sociocultural context.
In using this medium, we are hoping to stimulate interests and reach out to a broad range of policy- makers, practitioners and individuals which may not, in other circumstances, have engaged with this issue. In particular, we hope to raise awareness of carers and of the diversity and intersectionalities of their experiences, and to encourage the development of practices and policies which foster carers’ sense of belonging.
This webinar is going to be chaired by Professor Carine Ronsmans, epidemiologist and member of the Maternal and Neonatal Health Programme. Carine is also LSHTM's Athena SWAN working group lead.
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Before joining Anglia Ruskin, Marie-Pierre was Reader in Sociology of Education and Director of the RISE (Research in Inequalities, Societies and Education) research centre at the University of Roehampton, London. Marie-Pierre's research is primarily informed by feminist post-structuralist theories and located at the nexus of education, work and equality issues, with specific reference to gender.
Sally Campbell Galman, PhD Professor University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Dr Sally Campbell-Galman is an anthropologist, writer, performance and visual artist and advocate for gender diverse children and young people. Her research interests include the anthropology of childhood, arts-based qualitative and ethnographic research methods, and gender studies.
Please note that the time listed is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Other events taking place around this year's International Women’s Day include:
- 8 Mar: Women at the forefront of global leadership in the COVID-19 era
- 10 Mar: (open to internal staff and students only)
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