Centre for Women's Studies
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Wednesday 24 July 2024
Asha Abeyasekera was invited to be a panellist for a discussion on womanhood, virtue, shame, and suicide in South Asia hosted by the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 17th July 2024.
Tuesday 23 July 2024
Congratulations to CWS PhD student Daisy MacManaman on the publication of her article on the Barbie exhibition at the Design Museum in London in The Conversation.
Tuesday 23 July 2024
Asha Abeyasekera was awarded a Knowledge Mobilization Award (KMA) from the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) to build a community manifesto on housing and urban planning with poor working-class communities in Central Colombo.
Tuesday 23 July 2024
Lizzie Merrill, a WRoCAH-funded CWS doctoral candidate, presented a paper at the (Inter)Disciplinary Bodies Conference, held at Brunel University from 25th-27th June.
Tuesday 23 July 2024
WRoCAH-funded CWS doctoral candidate, Lizzie Merrill curated and organised Photofantasy, an exhibition showcasing the groundbreaking works of artist Jo Spence alongside the contributions of 6 other art makers inspired by her practice.
Monday 10 June 2024
On June 3rd, members of our CWS community with students and colleagues from across the university gathered for a symposium to mark 40 years of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of York.
Tuesday 16 April 2024
We are taking a moment to reflect on the past year and on the outstanding work of our FRACS Team. Masters and PhD students at CWS join the team every year to help plan, organise and run social, career, academic, and activist events and activities.
Wednesday 20 March 2024
On 8th March 2024, Lizzie Merrill, a WRoCAH-funded CWS doctoral candidate, presented a paper “Towards a collaborative analysis of Artwork and Metaphor” at the Centre for Women’s Studies’ own conference, Sisterhood in Action
Wednesday 13 March 2024
This year’s Sisterhood in Action, which took place on March 8th, International Women’s Day, also marked 40 years of CWS. 2024 is a very special year for the Centre for Women’s Studies, and the SiA conference was a beautiful moment to begin to celebrate our community full of sisters of all genders.
Sunday 4 February 2024
Dr Rachel Alsop, Director of the Centre for Women's Studies, together with Professor Henrice Altink from the Department of History at the University of York and colleagues from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana led a three-day workshop with Early Career Researchers (ECRs) on how to get interdisciplinary research funded and published.
Wednesday 8 November 2023
Lizzie Merrill was awarded funding to conduct a research trip to Paris, by White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities.
Thursday 26 October 2023
Congratulations to PhD student Daisy McManaman who has an article published in The Conversation looking at how the Playboy costume has become a popular Halloween costume.
Wednesday 4 October 2023
The Centre for Women's Studies is very sad to hear of the recent death of Dr Jo Woodiwiss, a graduate and friend of CWS.
Monday 25 September 2023
We are delighted to share the latest issue of Cultivate: The Feminist Journal of the Centre for Women's Studies (CWS). 'Issue 5: The Creative Issue' puts our usual peer-reviewed article process aside and instead spotlights creative work.
Friday 8 September 2023
We are very pleased to welcome Dr Francesca Lewis to the Centre for Women's Studies (CWS) core staff team.
Monday 7 August 2023
BEING HERE follows the lives of four working-class women and place they call home – Colombo. It explores the realities of living in a city aspiring for ‘world-class’ status. Asha’s research study examined the urban geographies of homemaking in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Sunday 25 June 2023
In response to the release of the new Barbie film, CWS student Daisy McManaman writes in The Conversation about the history of Barbie and her complicated feminism.
Sunday 25 June 2023
Congratulations to Dr Rachel Alsop on the publication of 'Migration and Gender-Based Violence' in Parveen Ali and Michaela Rogers' edited collection Gender-Based Violence: A Comprehensive Guide, published by Springer Press https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-05640-6
Wednesday 17 May 2023
CWS PhD student Daisy McManaman has recently had two articles published in The Conversation.
Thursday 16 March 2023
The call for applications to the MA Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA) for Self-funded Students is now *OPEN*
Thursday 16 March 2023
The call for applications to the MA Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA) for Self-funded Students is now *OPEN*
Monday 27 February 2023
On the occasion of the trial of GEMMA student,Patrick Zaki,scheduled to begin on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, the GEMMA Consortium has issued the following statement.
Monday 27 February 2023
We are very pleased to share that CWS Alumna Hiranmayee Mishra has been nominated for a British Council Alumni Award.
Thursday 23 February 2023
Congratulations to Daisy McManaman on HRC Project Grant
Friday 3 February 2023
CWS and other events taking place during York International Women’s Week
Thursday 12 January 2023
Former PhD student Shuang Qui has published a new book drawing on her doctoral research.
Thursday 12 January 2023
Congratulations to CWS alumna Shuang Qiu on the publication of her new book Gender and Family Practices. Living Apart Together Relationships in China
Wednesday 7 December 2022
Just a quick message to let you know that we have already opened the call for applications for the Erasmus Mundus scholarships for Partner country students for the next edition of GEMMA (17th edition, 2023-2025). The call will be available until January 13th 2023, 5pm Granada local time.
Thursday 17 November 2022
Registration is now open! This will be recorded and circulated if students are unable to attend.
Friday 11 November 2022
York’s Centre for Women’s Studies and Department of English & Related Literature will soon be advertising a new, fully funded PhD position as part of our collaborative, international Marie Curie Horizon/UKRI Doctoral Networks project, EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective. The call will be referenced/posted on the leading project partner’s website (Central European University, Austria), EURAXESS, the University of York jobs page, and other platforms as soon as it goes live. In the meantime, prospective applicants can learn more about the project scope and start preparing their research proposals based on the York Work Package description below.
Friday 4 November 2022
We are once again running our China Scholarships Council joint PhD scholarships in partnership with the CSC.
Tuesday 1 November 2022
Please explore the open call for applications for a PhD position DC, “EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender in Transnational Perspective” HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN.01 (0,1 FTE)
Friday 28 October 2022
Centre for Women's Studies has been nominated for two categories of the University of York's Inclusive Impact Awards: Inclusive Education and Inclusive Community!
Thursday 27 October 2022
The masters students felt that it was important that we act practically to support the protests happening in Iran over women's rights and against authoritarianism.
Thursday 26 May 2022
It was with great sadness that we heard of the death of a valued colleague, Professor Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar of Heslington, on May 12th.
Tuesday 26 April 2022
This is the call for self-funded applications to GEMMA and applications are open until 13th May 2022.
Monday 4 January 2021
Applications can now be made to the MA Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA) on a self funded basis.
Monday 4 January 2021
The Centre for Women's studies teaching team have received the Vice Chancellor's Award for teaching.
Tuesday 10 November 2020
Student compiled bibliography from the Gender and Migration module 2019-20 is made available.
Thursday 18 June 2020
Click to see the open letter from CWS staff on Black Lives Matter
Thursday 14 May 2020
We are delighted to congratulate CWS GEMMA student Aline Rodrigues Silva on the recent publication of her book review in Feminist Media Studies, Volume 20(3).
Wednesday 4 March 2020
Centre for Women’s Studies students and staff joined UCU York to call for the immediate and unconditional release of University of Bologna / GEMMA student Patrick Zaki who has been imprisoned by the Egyptian authorities #freepatrick
Monday 24 February 2020
The Centre for Women's Studies is taking part in the Social Sciences Virtual Open Day on the 30th November 2020 13:00-15:00.
Friday 20 December 2019
Applications for MA Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA) for the next academic year are now open to students applying for the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship.
Wednesday 6 March 2019
CWS is pleased to have hosted a very successful afternoon of talks on 2 March 2019, in conjunction with York International Women's Week. The event featured one of the Centre's lecturers and eight PhD researchers sharing 10-minute talks about their research on local and global issues affecting women today. Speakers presented to a sold out event at York's city-centre York Explore Library and also had the chance to engage in lively Q&A sessions with the audience.
Sunday 13 January 2019
Erasmus Mundus Scholarships for the MA in Gender and Women's Studies (GEMMA) is now open. The scholarships will fund the tuition fees, participation cost and a contribution to subsistence / travel costs. These scholarships are open to all eligible International students.
Thursday 13 December 2018
We are excited to feature in the British Sociological Association Magazine for Autumn 2018 to announce the introduction of our new MA in Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA).
Thursday 8 November 2018
The Centre for Women’s Studies (CWS) has joined a consortium of leading international Women’s and Gender Studies departments to deliver the GEMMA Masters programme, a recognised European ‘Masters of Excellence’.
Monday 5 November 2018
Jamie Khoo our PhD student has recently won the People Choice award at the national finals of the 3MT and become a finalist in the Falling Walls Lab in Surrey. Read about her success and watch her presentation.
Wednesday 31 October 2018
The Centre for Women's Studies will be attending a Virtual Open Day on the 20th November 2018 15:00-17:00. If you are interested in or have applied to our MA or PhD programme do feel free to join us. Our admissions tutor will be there to answer your questions. More information can be found on the University of York website: https://www.york.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/open-days/virtual-open-day/
Sunday 30 September 2018
Dr Rachel Alsop from the Centre for Women’s Studies spoke on gender-based violence in new migrant communities in the UK at an event held at the House of Commons on Wednesday 26th September.
Monday 3 September 2018
We are very pleased to welcome two new lecturers to the Centre; Dr Rachel Alsop and Dr Boriana Alexandrova.
Sunday 22 July 2018
We are very excited to announce that we will be offering an MA in (GEMMA) Gender and Women's Studies from September 2018.
Sunday 8 July 2018
We are very excited that our PhD Student Jamie Khoo has won the University of York 3MT competition and has been nominated to take part in the national 3MT competition.
Sunday 1 October 2017
Cultivate, the new peer reviewed feminist journal based at the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, is open for submissions for our first issue on the theme of 'Feminist Protests'.
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Joy Ogbemudia and Kailing Xie, PhD research students, Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York.
Wednesday 15 February 2017
CWS members contribute to Social Research Publications' Discover Society website.
Tuesday 14 February 2017
CWS PhD student Emily Yates writes about her experience making a documentary for BBC Three.
Thursday 9 February 2017
We are delighted to be able to appoint Dr Evangeline Tsao as our new Research Fellow in Gender Equality.
Thursday 9 February 2017
Article by Jamie Khoo and O'Dessa.
Wednesday 11 January 2017
Feedback on the PhD Research in the Spotlight Experience Qiu, Shuang, PhD student, Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York
Tuesday 10 January 2017
Read PhD student Manel Zouabi's article in Africa Studies Bulletin 78 (Winter 2016/17).
