Thanks for sharing, Joe. Do you think the Stonewall approach works? What are its limitations? How do primary school children make sense of the LGBT identities that are (to quote your website) "made available through liberal, equalities positions"? Is there really space for sissies?
Gavin
Dr Gavin Brown
Lecturer in Human Geography
University of Leicester
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From: Sexualities, Space and Queer Geographies [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joe J Hall [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 27 April 2012 12:52
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Subject: Re: New members: welcome and introductions
Following on from Matthew I would like to introduce myself to members of this group. I am not a new member as such but I haven’t really shared my (doctoral) research interests via this mailing list before.
Anyway, my name is Joe and I’m undertaking an ESRC-funded PhD at the University of Hull. I think the title of a forthcoming conference paper is the best way of describing my work - ‘It doesn’t matter if you’re a sissy’: gender and sexuality work in English primary schools.
Bridging the sub-fields of Children’s geographies, Geographies of Education and Geographies of Sexuality; my PhD research is primarily concerned with understanding how the non-profit sector is creating and shaping a sexualities agenda for uptake in primary schools. The focus of my ethnographic approach are key primary schools that are being held up by Stonewall as ‘good practice schools’ for others to follow.
I look forward to hearing about what everyone else is doing.
Joe
Joe Hall | Doctoral Candidate | Department of Geography | The University of Hull | HU6 7RX | UK
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From: Sexualities, Space and Queer Geographies [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Matthew Williams
Sent: 27 April 2012 12:13
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Subject: Re: New members: welcome and introductions
Good Morning All,
Following Dr. Brown's invitation for new members to introduce themselves I would just like to give you all some information about myself. My name is Matthew Williams I am a new member of SSQRG and am currently researching for my Ph.D. Geography in University College Cork. Though there has been an increased diversification of research on sexuality in the Republic of Ireland, I feel the topic still remains as somewhat of a lacuna in the Irish research field. As a result my Ph.D. will investigate the socio-spatial inclusion/exclusion of sexual diversity in Cork City with an over-arching focus on citizenship and the inclusion of "difference" in Urban Ireland. In doing this research I hope to present a case study comparable to those which have already been done in Northern Ireland and across Europe.
I look forward to hearing about everyone else's projects/interests
All the Best,
Matthew Williams B.A.
Ph.D. researcher,
Department of Geography,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Brown, Gavin P. (Dr.) <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
There has been a steady stream of people joining this list over the last couple of months. Welcome to you all. Please feel free to introduce yourself and your interests in geographies of sexualities.
(Of course, long-standing members may also want to share what they're working on at the moment, too...)
Gavin
Dr Gavin Brown
Lecturer in Human Geography
University of Leicester
Staff profile: http://www.le.ac.uk/gg/staff/academic_brown.html
Research blogs: http://nonstopagainstapartheid.wordpress.com<http://nonstopagainstapartheid.wordpress.com/>
http://placeofaspirations.wordpress.com<http://placeofaspirations.wordpress.com/>
Chair of the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group of the RGS-IBG: www.ssqrg.net<http://www.ssqrg.net/>
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/leicestergeog
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Matthew Williams, B.A.
Ph.D. Researcher,
Dept. of Geography,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.
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