The unseen hazards of researching sugar
As part of the Sugar Rush: Science, Obesity and the Social Life of Sugar project, Karen Throsby reflects on the impacts of research upon the researcher.
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Sugar Rush: Science, Obesity and the Social Life of Sugar
Karen Throsby explains how sugar has become the new public health bête noir and discusses her new research project exploring scientific knowledge production, validation and popular appropriation; the role of generation, gender, race an class in the production of embodied citizenship; the politics of food in the context of austerity; and contemporary panics around health and body size.
Two new books by CIGS members
Karen Throsby's Immersion:Marathon swimming, embodiment and identity is out now with Manchester University Press. Rosemary Lucy Hill's Gender, Metal and the Media is just published with Palgrave.
CIGS Reverse Advent
CIGS Christmas Collection - please donate sanitary towels and tampons for women experiencing poverty and using food banks.
New CIGS blog post - gender and sport reporting
CIGS MA student, Olivia Morris, writes about gender imbalances in sport reporting.
CIGS Christmas Celebration (Tuesday 13th Dec)
Tuesday 13th December, 4-6pm, Social Sciences Building 12.21 / 25. Come along to the CIGS Christmas Celebration - all welcome.
CIGS seminar: Dr Karen Throsby
Real meals: radical diets, science and the masculinisation of weight loss Wednesday 7th December 2016 12:00-13:30 Social Sciences Building 12.21/25 All welcome
Dr João Manuel de Oliveira: Gender and its Ghosts: Feminism and the Construction of Gender Theory
Date: 14 November 2012, 5.00pm Location: Seminar Room, Beech Grove House Dr João Manuel de Oliveira: Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and University of Porto
Dr Jane Chi Hyun Park - South Korean Beauty as Transnational Pan-Asian Aesthetic: Reading Around and Beyond 200 Pounds Beauty
Date: 30 October 2012, 5.00pm Location: Seminar Room, Beech Grove House Dr. Jane Chi Hyun Park, senior lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
Bird la Bird - Holding Court on Class and Queer Femininity
Date: 25 October 2012, 5.00pm Location: Western Lecture Theatre - Leeds University Business School