I'm quoted in an article by @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for @science.org
A simple policy corrected pervasive gender imbalance in Ph.D. awards at Dutch university
“I think it’s an example other universities should follow,” says @manchester.ac.uk Jessica Gagnon
www.science.org/content/arti...
Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Photo from the BERA conference featuring a full lecture hall of hundreds of conference attendees while the opening slide of the keynote panel for the conference is in view
#BERA2025 starting now with BERA President @drmoncrieffe.bsky.social opening the keynote panel: What is being done and what must be continued for advancing the power of anti-racism and decoloniality in educational research, policy and practice across the four UK nations?
BERA 2025 Conference Workshop. Beyond 'happily ever after': the potential of narrative methods for social justice research in education. Happening on 10/09/25 at 11.15am at the BERA Conference.
As @beranews.bsky.social Research Methodologies SIG Co-Convenor with @dramandan.bsky.social, we are delighted to be delivering a workshop with colleagues from the Social Justice SIG at #BERA2025 conference in September.
Details below ⬇️
✉️ Feel free to get in touch with any questions.
Screenshot of a PowerPoint title slide for presentation titled Who has the time? Clocking the hidden burdens impacting LGBTQ+ and women researchers in STEM. Presented by Drs Jessica Gagnon and Marco Reggiani. The image features a pale yellow background on the right side with geometric rainbow pattern on the left side. Logos from two research projects, STEM Equals and LGBTQUAL+, and logos from project funders EPSRC, Royal Society of Chemistry, and UK Science and Innovation Network are included.
Are you attending BERA in Brighton #BERA2025?
On Wed 9am @marcoreggiani.bsky.social & I are presenting
Who has the time? Clocking the hidden burdens impacting LGBTQ+ and women researchers in STEM
Including findings from EPSRC funded STEM Equals and RSC & UKSIN funded LGBTQual+
Promotional graphic for a survey - text reads 'Call for Participants: IGNITE’s EDI in STEM and the Energy Research Sector Survey.' The image features logos for IGNITE Network+ and UKRI EPSRC at the top. A large speech bubble contains the survey title. To the right, a hand holds a smartphone displaying a QR code with the label 'SCAN ME.' The background includes illustrations of diverse individuals and scientific icons like light bulbs, gears, molecules, and hydrogen symbols (H2).
🔍 Survey Call - We Need Your Voice! 🔍
The @ignitenetplus.bsky.social survey to advance Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in #STEM and #Energy #research sector is live
👥STEM Researchers
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yx8u6uyx
📢 Please share to help us reach a wide audience
#EDI #Inclusion #YourVoice
Do you work in the UK's research & innovation sector? Have you experienced or witnessed bullying and/or sexual harassment? Take our survey to share your experiences: go.hw.ac.uk/EDICa/Bullyi...
#BSL interpretation below by @jeminanapier.bsky.social. #BritishSignLanguage
youtu.be/0HjJoGviic8
💬 "Improving access to university for disadvantaged young people, particularly those in the ‘left behind’ parts of the country, must be seen as a priority."
@ericaholtwhite.bsky.social draws on our new research to explore differences in access to university ⬇️
www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...
Retracting the ability to host students has long been the threat wielded by the federal government over colleges and universities. It has never been exercised against an accredited non-profit institution that I know of. I study HE through the politics of noncitizen students: this is THE concern.
Join me in supporting a small local charity doing really important work in our #Salford community 💟
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-salfo...
#SalfordStepIntoAction #Community #Together
NDAs have kept serial abusers & the employers who protect them free from accountability for the harm they have caused for far too long.
It is absolutely time for a reckoning.
Headline: Labour considering ban on use of NDAs to hush up sexual misconduct at work
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan...
This starter pack includes folks working in the Manchester Institute of Education. Since you're in Manchester, come along to MIE or UoM events. I'm currently on adoption leave but would be great to see you at campus events when I'm back :)
Book cover of The Guide to LGBTQ+ Research edited by Dr Adam Brett & Professor Catherine Lee featuring a rainvow lightbulb with a the outline of a brain inside
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Out now: The Guide to LGBTQ+ Research
Chapter by me @jessgagnon.bsky.social & @marcoreggiani.bsky.social titled Sharing Queer knowledge in a heteronormative world
Editors @dradambrett.bsky.social & @profcatherinelee.bsky.social
bookstore.emerald.com/the-guide-to...
🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨
GEA Conference 2025 | May 27–30 | Manchester Metropolitan Uni
Join us to explore re-routing, diversifying & trans*forming routes to, through and within gender & education. Call for abstracts is now open, deadline 20th Dec 2024. For further info: www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...
Call for papers for #EGOS2025 of Sub-theme 02: #EDI in Difficult Times: Organizing Solidarity beyond Opposition and Resistance
Convenors: Zeynep Gülru Göker, Yvonne W.M. Benschop, Jasmin Mahadevan
Part of SWG2: Pushing the Boundaries of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
www.egos.org/jart/prj3/eg...
Men are more likely to evade academic service tasks, such as organising seminars, supervising PhDs or participating in committees, while women feel obliged to take them on, a new study has found
#AcademicSky #EduSky #highered
This has also been my experience, but what is more disturbing is receiving this kind of abuse from within our own academic communities #race #gender #symbolicviolence
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Hey #AceInSTEM folks - I'm doing a talk next week about asexuality for a LGBTQ+ STEM Day event. I like to include other perspectives in my talks and if you would like to share your anonymously, you can do so through this form: forms.gle/RXbLC5HD2d17...
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GEA Conference 2025 coming to Manchester!
Pleased to share the 'Whose Rainbow?' research project report! We asked LGBT+ students, staff & those considering themselves 'allies' what they thought of the use of LGBT+ symbolism in universities.
Full report here: shura.shu.ac.uk/34366/1/2024...
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