Consultancy
The SPAIS Gender Research Centre undertakes consultancy work for various organisations.
- Rosie Walters, PhD Candidate in Politics, presented some of her research at a Labour Party Conference fringe event on tackling racism and employment discrimination in September 2016. The event was chaired by Stephen Kinnock MP, with a keynote speech from Andy Burnham MP. Speaking alongside advocacy organisation Muslim Engagement and Development, Rosie discussed the findings of her study on stereotypical portrayals of Muslim women in UK media.
- Professor Sarah Childs launched her report, The Good Parliament, in the UK Houses of Parliament on 20 July 2016.
- Rosie Walters, PhD candidate in Politics, received a grant from the South West Research Cooperative which is funding a short consultancy with One25, a local charity working with Bristol female street-based sex workers. The charity is setting up a new peer mentoring service and Rosie will be consulting their service users on how this service should work.
- Professor Sarah Childs has been awarded a University of Bristol/ESRC impact secondment to address the UK parliament as a gender-sensitive institution. Sarah's secondment, from October 2015 to February 2016, will involve meeting with MPs, hosting two conferences and workshops, and undertaking visits to the UK's devolved institutions.
- Involvement of Parliaments in Advancing the ‘Women, Peace and Security’ Agenda in NATO Member Countries, 2013 report for DCAF by Audrey Reeves
- Speaker’s Conference (on Parliamentary Representation) - Specialist adviser to the Conference: Professor Sarah Childs
- "The Right Man for Bristol": Gender, Representation and the Mayor of Bristol (2012), report published for the Bristol Fawcett Society by Natasha Carver
- Marriage-related migration to the UK, International Migration Review, volume 46, 2012 (Home Office Occasional paper 96), lead author Dr. Katharine Charsley