People
Directing staff
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Director |
Peace Medie (she/her) |
Peace Medie’s research focuses on women’s and gender studies, African studies and international studies. She studies state and non-state actors’ responses to gender-based violence and other forms of insecurity. Peace published her book Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa in 2020. Alongside her academic work, she has published two novels, His Only Wife and Nightbloom. Peace is an Associate Professor of Politics. |
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Deputy Director |
Junko Yamashita (she/her) |
Junko Yamashita’s research centres around social and policy analysis of care, welfare, intergenerational relations, inequalities and gender. She also focuses on the decentralisation of the Euro-American approach to knowledge production. Junko is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies and co-founder of the East Asian Social Research Policy Network. |
Steering Group Members
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B Camminga (they/them) |
B Camminga’s multidisciplinary research and teaching interests span the fields of migration studies, transgender studies, queer African studies and African feminism. Their particular focus is on how the term ‘transgender’ moves and migrates, and the meaning it makes as it does so. B is a Lecturer in the Sociology of Gender and a co-convenor of the African LGBTQI+ Migration Research Network (ALMN). |
B Camminga - University of Bristol Bluesky: @obsqueer. bsky.social |
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Rebecca Coleman (she/her) |
Rebecca Coleman's (she/her) research spans sociology, media and cultural studies, and feminist theory. She is particularly interested in digital media and cultures; futures and presents; bodies, affect and new materialisms; and inventive methodologies. Rebecca is Professor in the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures and the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies. |
Rebecca Coleman - University of Bristol Bluesky: @rcecoleman.bsky.social |
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Nazia Hussein (she/her) |
Nazia Hussein (she/her) adopts feminist theory and postcolonial theory in her research on gendered, raced and classed identities in South Asia, South Asian Diaspora in the UK and among Muslim women in the UK. Nazia is a Lecturer of Sociology. |
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Rosie Ola-Marie (they/them) |
Rosie Ola-Marie is interested in sexuality, gender, queerness, transness, digital society and qualitative research methodologies. Their research focuses on representation and identity, particularly as it relates to LGBTQ+ sexualities and genders. Their recent published texts include Making Space for Bi+ Identities: Explorations of Genders, Identities and Relationships (Routledge 2023) and Queer and Feminist Research: A Guide to Qualitative Methodologies (SAGE 2025). Rosie is a Senior Lecturer in Gender. |
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Maud Perrier (she/her) |
Maud Perrier (she/her) is a feminist sociologist and social reproduction scholar. Her current research is concerned with care workers’ labour movements and advancing feminist debates around childcare, motherhood and social reproduction. Maud is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies. |
Maud M Perrier - University of Bristol Google Scholar: Maud Perrier Articles |
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Chris Rossdale (they/them) |
Chris Rossdale’s research focuses on militarism, policing and state violence, on social movements and resistance, and on feminist, queer, anarchist and Black radical political thought. They are currently working on the criminalisation of dissent (especially climate and environmental protest), and on the symbolic life of rebellion in liberal societies. Chris is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. |
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Elena B. Stavrevska (she/her) |
Elena B. Stavrevska is a feminist peace scholar whose research examines issues of political economy in conflict-affected societies, feminist and decolonial approaches to peace, as well as the politics of knowledge production in relation to the post-Yugoslav space. Beyond her academic work, Elena has been working closely with different international organisations and civil society organisations in the post-Yugoslav space, focused on peace, transitional justice, and dealing with the past processes. Elena is a Lecturer in International Relations and a member of the YugoslaWomen+ Collective. |
Elena B. Stavrevska - University of Bristol Bluesky profile: @ebstavrevska.bsky.social |
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Elspeth Van Veeren (she/her) |
Elspeth Van Veeren's research focuses on US security cultures and politics. She is particularly interested in studying secrecy in relation to the longer histories of the US and its formation, including exploring how personal and everyday secret-keeping and the entanglement of gender, race and sexuality are central to secrecy on national and transnational scales. Elspeth is an Associate Professor of Global Politics and a Coordinator of the Secrecy, Power and Ignorance research Network (SPIN). |