Centre for Women's Studies
2023 news
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