About the Centre
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The Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds is one of the largest UK gender studies research centres.
Founded in 1997, we bring together academics, researchers and postgraduates from the arts and humanities, social sciences, medicine and healthcare disciplines.
We focus on contemporary gender issues, and stress the intersections between gender and other social categories: race, ethnicity, sexuality, social class, space and location, age, and embodiment, emphasising the relationship between theory, practice and policy. Our particular areas of focus include the following.
- The Body (including aesthetic and cosmetic surgeries)
- Citizenship
- Global Gender Relations
- Intimacies
- Masculinities
- Queer Theory and Practices
- Race and Ethnicity
- Science and Technologies
- Sexuality
- Sex Work
- Transgender
Latest news
Dr Richard Cleminson, Deputy Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and Reader in the History of Sexuality at the University's School of Modern Languages and Cultures, has marked Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) history month with the translation into Spanish of his groundbreaking history of male homosexuality in Spain. For more information please click here
The Centre would like to offer its warmest congratulations to Dr Fiona Philip, Dr Paweena Subhimaros and Dr Anna Rogers who all passed their PhDs with flying colours this semester!
We would also like to congratulate Alexa Athelstan-Price and Angelica Pesarini who have been awarded a University Research Scholarhip; Cassandra McLuckie and Corin Taylor who have been awarded an ESRC scholarship; Linda Danil who has been awarded a Frank Stell Scholarship.
World-leading research
Our research was graded the second highest in the country in terms of 'world-leading' research’ (4*) in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
International focus
Both research and teaching in the Centre has an international focus and we recruit students from all over the world.
Vibrant research culture
We have a vibrant research and postgraduate culture, and our programme of events includes conferences, visiting speaker’s seminars, lectures, work in progress workshops, and film and book clubs.