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 will launch the next call for applications in September 2024.
We are pleased to be able to announce the details of the funded workshops for the year 2023 - 24.
Dr Charlotte Jones (School of English and Drama) will lead two days of creative performances, workshops, film screenings and talks will take the 130th anniversary of the ‘Greenwich Bomb Outrage’ as an opportunity to bring organisers, activists, scholars and artists together.
The workshop, led by Dr Alaya Forte and Farah Hussain (School of Politics and International Relations) in collaboration with Dr M. Mohsin Alam Bhat (School of Law), will assemble stakeholders and academics to discuss emerging issues and develop new research agendas.
Dr Niharika Pandit's (School of Politics and International Relations) and Dr Swati Arora's (School of English and Drama) three-part workshop series seeks 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) and IHSS Fellow Dr Daragh Murray (Law) will lead a workshop to develop a cross-disciplinary network of scholars working on security and human rights broadly understood.
Dr Joseph Cronin (History), Ayesha Riaz (Law) and Meena Masood (Politics and International Relations) will bring together postgraduate and early career researchers who will present papers on their current projects, grouped into four thematic and interdisciplinary panels, including Q&A sessions. The roundtable discussion will conclude the workshop.
Via his workshop, Dr Regan Burles (Politics and International Relations) will connect scholars on geopolitics and world order across the Schools of Politics and International Relations and Geography.
Led by Dr Rachel Bryant Davies (Comparative Literature) and Dr Amanda Sciampacone (History) this seminar series will be 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 (Comparative Literature), Dr Afef Mbarek (History(Postdoctoral Research Assistant), Dr Rebekah Vince (French) this three-part workshop series will focus 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 (English and Drama) and Dr Ana Laura Zavala Guillén (Geography) will bring together researchers and activists working from this theoretical perspective in Britain.
Led by Dr Ana Laura Zavala Guillen (Geography) and Dr Micaela Signorelli (English and Drama) 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 will bring 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 (History).
Rethinking Childhood Studies
Dr Rachel Bryant Davies (School of Languages, Linguistics and Film) 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 Languages, Linguistics and Film)
“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).