Category Research
The Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender is pleased to share a brand-new episode of our PhD-student-led podcast “Crossing Waves” featuring conversations and dialogues with researchers, activists, artists and other allies on the field of gender and sexualities. The fourth… Continue Reading →
Louka Maju Goetzke is Research Associate and a third-year PhD candidate in Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main in Germany. Their doctoral project explores how gender transitions unfold, with a focus on processes of differentiation and in/exclusion. Louka’s broader research interests… Continue Reading →
This is presented by our current CTSG International Research Fellow, Louka Maju Goetzke. This talk explores how gender transitions and trans(itioning) subjects come about. Louka discusses situated material-discursive differentiation processes which form the boundaries of gender transitions, based on a… Continue Reading →
The final report ‘Pathways between LGBTQ migration, social isolation and distress: Liberation, care and loneliness’ was published on 28th September 2022. THis can be accessed via this post along with a summary.
This research entitled ‘Pathways between LGBTQ migration, social isolation & distress: liberation, care and loneliness’ was a collaboration between academics at the University of Brighton’s Centre for Transforming Gender and Sexuality, and MindOut LGBTQ mental health charity. It involved in-depth interviews with MindOut service-users who had relocated to Brighton internationally and from within the UK.
The project aimed to understand how LGBTQ people’s migratory journeys and experiences of loneliness and isolation, as well as belonging, contributed to their mental health in Brighton. We used creative methods, like map-making and drawing, to help people capture their journeys and experiences.
The COVID-19 pandemic put many LGBTQ+ young people at risk in the UK, with many living in hostile or unsafe environments, experiencing isolation, mental health pressures and homelessness. In the UK young LGBTQ+ people’s experience was compounded by an increasingly hostile public climate around trans and gender-diverse young people’s rights. The demand on organisations providing support increased significantly, with the LGBTQ+ helpline Switchboard reporting 20% more calls and LGBTQ+ homelessness charities saw a substantial rise in referrals. Community organisations supporting LGBTQ+ young people took a lead by rapidly developing digitally delivered services to continue supporting young people.
Working together with community partners Allsorts Youth Project, AKT, Comics Youth and Mosaic, a University of Brighton research team, investigated the transformations in digital youth work that organisations embarked on, centring both young people’s experience and the youth workers’ perspectives.
Switchboard, in partnership with University of Brighton Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender (CTSG), Clarion Futures, are hosting a solution focused, community led conference to provide a springboard for provision of safe LGBTQ+ affirmative housing.
CTSG SUMMER PROGRAMME 11 May 2-3pm Grand Parade G4 Methodology Lab Jess Moriaty& Lesley Murray: The Immobilities of Gender-based Violence inthe Covid 19 Pandemic 17 May 1-2.30pm Grand Parade Reading group led by VRF Flavia Meireles (CEFET-RJ Brazil): How not… Continue Reading →
Annukka Lahti, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Eastern Finland and Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sussex, presents a study into queer break-ups. At 3-4 pm 19th May 2022 – City Campus, Grand Parade – Room G4. Where the rainbow ends: The… Continue Reading →
CTSG research seminar 4 May 3-4pm Grand Parade G4 – all welcome! Situating Queer in Photography Åsa Johannesson This talk focuses on new ways of considering the notion queer in relation to photography. It will include discussions that are rooted… Continue Reading →
