School of Education

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Event: Participatory recovery and reconstruction: Lessons from Ukraine

Alongside colleagues from the Community Development Journal, I am organising this hybrid event which is taking place in Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre from 6pm-8pm on Monday 26th February.

For a free ticket to attend either in-person or online, please book via Eventbrite.

As the conflict in Ukraine enters its third year, how are community development workers building participatory approaches to recovery and reconstruction?

This event will see Nataliya Drozd (Dobrochyn Centre) and Oleksandr Pidhorniy (Chernihiv Centre for Human Rights) in conversation with peacebuilding expert Professor Sinéad Gormally (School of Education, University of Glasgow).

We will hear first-hand about democratic activism, local self-governance, and integration of internally displaced peoples from civil society experts based on the ground in Ukraine. Attendees will also have space to reflect on how we can apply insights from their knowledge and experience within our own communities in Scotland.

This will be a hybrid event – when you book your (free) ticket, please state whether you will be joining online. We will circulate a link to join the event on the afternoon of 26th February.

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New roles: University of Glasgow and CATS

I am very excited to announce that I will be starting a new job at the University of Glasgow this summer!

I have been appointed Lecturer in Community Development at the School of Education. I will be teaching and conducting research on a range of topics relating to social justice theory and movements, community action, and collective empowerment. This will build on my previous work on topics including trans health, queer music scenes, and gender inequalities in Higher Education.

St Andrew’s Building, University of Glasgow

I am also delighted to have been appointed Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS) in Chicago. As a Fellow at the Center I intend to collaborate with international colleagues in conducting and disseminating impactful research by and for trans people and communities.

All of this does however mean that sadly I will be leaving my current role as Research Coordinator at the Trans Learning Partnership. We have achieved an enormous amount with this new partnership over the last year, including co-production of community research priorities, design and pilot of shared data collection, participation in public consultations and advisory groups, and support work around groundbreaking research with trans birth parents in England. I wish my former colleagues all the best with their future work, and fully intend to continuing collaborating with them as a university-based researcher.