News, Events and Blog Posts
CIGS Research Seminar: Dr Anna Bull (Weds 11 November, 4-5.30pm)
CIGS is delighted to host its first research seminar for this academic year and we are excited to welcome Dr Anna...
CIGS Work-in progress seminar – Wednesday 21 October, 4-5pm
CIGS will be hosting its first work-in-progress seminar of the year on Wednesday 21st October, 4-5pm. These seminars are an...
Writing Together Tuesdays is back!
During lockdown, we began holding afternoon ‘Writing Together’ sessions once a week. It began as an experiment, but as time...
Book prize success for ‘Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism’
We are delighted to announce that the book, Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism (2019, Manchester University Press) has been awarded the...
Intersectional Feminism in Action: Sisters Uncut Leeds
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ― Angela...
#ComingOut: Wrestling’s #MeToo and a moment of reckoning
I spent 2019 conducting ethnographic fieldwork in and around professional wrestling as part of my project into concussion in contact...
Convivial Encounters in Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
By Ruth Holliday – Professor of Gender and Culture. (This post was originally published by the Sociological Review ) Cosmetic...
Sexual violence at gigs
Rosemary Lucy Hill discusses sexual harassment, assault and groping at live music events, and what can be done about it....