The IHSS Early Career Workshop Funding Scheme provides funding for the organisation of workshops with a cross-disciplinary dimension led by Early Career Researchers across the Faculty.
Currently, there are no open calls for applications.
We are pleased to announce the details of the funded workshops for the year 2024 - 25.
After a successful and popular three-part series of workshops on ‘Pluriversal Feminisms and Multispecies Justice: Thinking with/from the Global South’ that Dr Niharika Pandit's (School of Politics and International Relations) and Dr Swati Arora's (School of the Arts) organised between March and May 2024 through the support of IHSS Early Career Workshop funding scheme grant, they are keen to carry forward these discussions and give them form as an edited book collection. They will organise a few London-based writing workshops/retreats for their select workshop participants. These writing workshops will allow participants to collectively give shape to our edited book; co-producing its thematic focus, form and shape in the spirit of generating collaborative, praxis-oriented knowledge with non-university partners for wider reach and decolonising academic research.
Following feminist participatory methodologies aiming to trigger processes of knowledge co-production, PhD researchers Zinabu Shaibu (School Business and Management) and Rachele Shamouni-Naghde (School of Geography) will organise a series of three workshops to explore exciting ways of using co-authorship, using a flattened anti-hierarchical approach on a skillshare basis, so that all participants will share their experiences of writing collaboratively in the academy.
IHSS Fellows Drs Archie Davies and Elsa Noterman both from the School of Geography organising an interdisciplinary workshop bringing together experts in inhuman law, environmental reparations, arts, philosophy, anthropology, architecture, and more. It is being co-sponsored by research groups in the School of Geography, as well as the Faculty Research Centres the City Centre and the Forum on Decentring the Human.
This one-day workshop, lead by Dr Kate Lewis Hood (School of the Arts) in collaboration with colleagues in the School of Geography, will generate and nurture cross-disciplinary conversations around place-based pedagogies in research and teaching. The workshop focuses on how these practices can respond to ongoing legacies of empire, capitalism, and environmental breakdown in contemporary space-making, via anti-colonial feminist methods and perspectives.
Dr Charlotte Jones (School of the Arts) led two days of creative performances, workshops, film screenings and talks that took the 130th anniversary of the ‘Greenwich Bomb Outrage’ as an opportunity to bring organisers, activists, scholars and artists together.
Dr Niharika Pandit's (School of Politics and International Relations) and Dr Swati Arora's (School of the Arts) three-part workshop series sought to foster and sustain cross-disciplinary, cross-movement and transnational conversations on pluriversality, feminist theory and multispecies justice in contemporary times by centring decolonial and Indigenous scholarship and coalitional thinking from the Global South.
Dr Alvina Hoffmann (Politics and International Relations, at the time of award) and IHSS Fellow Dr Daragh Murray (Law) led a workshop to develop a cross-disciplinary network of scholars working on security and human rights broadly understood.
Dr Joseph Cronin (History, at the time of award), Ayesha Riaz (Law) and Meena Masood (Politics and International Relations) brought together postgraduate and early career researchers who presented papers on their current projects, grouped into four thematic and interdisciplinary panels, including Q&A sessions. The roundtable discussion concluded the workshop.
Via his workshop, Dr Regan Burles (Politics and International Relations, at the time of award) will connected scholars on geopolitics and world order across the Schools of Politics and International Relations and Geography.
Led by Dr Rachel Bryant Davies (School of the Arts) and Dr Amanda Sciampacone (School of History, at the time of award) this seminar series was dedicated to addressing the legacies of the nineteenth century and what studying the period involves across disciplines. How does the nineteenth century still shape today’s world? What is the value of interdisciplinary nineteenth-century research? How do different disciplines address the same questions, or ask questions of similar or the same source materials?
Led by Dr Hannah Scott Deuchar (School of the Arts), Dr Afef Mbarek (School of History), Dr Rebekah Vince (School of the Arts) this three-part workshop series focused on three archetypal modern sites of memory production – archives, museums, and narratives – to examine how memory is stored, mobilized, and contested across the Middle East and North Africa today.
This one-day interdisciplinary workshop on Latin American decolonial feminism led by Dr Valentina Aparicio (School of the Arts) and Dr Ana Laura Zavala Guillén (School of Geography) brought together researchers and activists working from this theoretical perspective in Britain.
Led by Dr Ana Laura Zavala Guillen (School of Geography) and Dr Micaela Signorelli (School of the Arts) this project will develop a series of online and in-person workshops that delve into the connections between bodies and research to explore how female-presenting researchers navigate the ubiquitous risk of gender-based violence in the field.
This interactive workshop brought together researchers working on early modern food in different fields to discuss two related questions: how can cooking and otherwise attempting to follow or adapt early modern recipes function as a form of research? And how to use digital media to teach a public audience about the history of food and cooking and the ways it intersects with histories of gender, race, class, and colonialism? It will be led by Dr Clio Doyle (School of History).
Rethinking Childhood Studies
Dr Rachel Bryant Davies (School of the Arts) and Dr Hedi Viterbo (School of Law)
Provincializing Anglo-American Feminism
Dr Leila Ullrich (School of Law), Dr Sydney Calkin (School of Geography) and Dr Claire English (School of Business and Management)
Surviving SocietyDr Sharri Plonski (School of Politics and International Relations)
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Queen Mary Research NetworkDr David Kennerley (School of History) and Professor Kiera Vaclavik (School of the Arts)
“Cultural Finance,” a new and emerging area of economics that explores how cultural norms interact with financial decision makingProfessor Jason Sturgess (School of Economics and Finance) and Dr Ben Holgate (School of Languages, Linguistics and Film)Topology and spatial distribution analysis applied to environmental scienceDr Clementine Chirol (School of Geography)
Nationality Now: The History, Culture, and Politics of Contemporary CitizenshipDr Nanor Kebranian (School of Law)
The Role of Citizens in Reforming EU DemocracyDr Davor Jancic (School of Law)
Displacement and Refugee Protection in Latin America and beyondDr Marcia Vera Espinoza (School of Geography)
The Post-Wage Economy: Why we need to re-theorise ‘work’ beyond the wage
Led by Dr. William Monteith (School of Geography); a summary of his report can be viewed here.
Critical Area Studies and the Future of South Asia at QMUL
Led by Dr Chris Moffat (School of History) and Dr Adhira Mangalagiri (School of Languages, Linguistics and Film); other colleagues contributing to the project were Dr Ash Devasundaram and Dr Shital Pravinchandra (School of Languages, Linguistics and Film), Dr Amit Rai (School of Business and Management) and Dr Philippa Williams (School of Geography).