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03/04/2012

• Save the Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University. Follow the link and sign the petition.

• The FWSA is now offering a small grant of £250 for workshops, seminars, conferences and networks organised by and aimed at postgraduate students. This money can be used for a variety of purposes and can be used alongside other awards. The lead organisers named on the application form must be FWSA members at the time the application and at the time the initiative is to take place. The deadline for applications is 1st June 2012 and decisions will be communicated by 1st July 2011. Enquiries should be sent to administrator@fwsa.org.uk and submissions must be made electronically to the same address.

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28/3/2012

2011 essay competition judges

We would like to thank our external judges- Dr Ruth Lewis and Dr Nazneen Ahmed who contributed to making this round such a success!

Dr Ruth Lewis is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon tyne. Ruth’s career spans academia, the public sector and the third sector. Her research has focused on violence against women, (particularly, legal interventions, domestic violence, perpetrators programmes, and lethal violence). Her current research interests focus on feminist activism in response to a range of issues, including violence against women students. Alongside her academic career, Ruth has been involved in community activism about violence against women and she is energised and inspired by the resurgence of feminist action on this issue. She has also worked outside academia – in the voluntary sector (doing work on gender equality regional policy and development at the Women’s Sports Foundation) and public sector (doing ‘value for money’ audits of national government initiatives at the National Audit Office) and has enjoyed the variety of encounters, skills and learning these experiences have offered.

Dr Nazneen Ahmed is currently Research Assistant on the Leverhume funded Oxford Diasporas Programme project “Religious faith, space and Diasporic Communities in East London, 1880-present.” Prior to this she held a postdoctoral research position in the School of English at the University of Kent on the interdisciplinary project “Radical Distrust:A Cultural Analysis of the Emotional, Psychological and Linguistic Formations of Religious and Political Extremism.” Her D. Phil. from Wadham College, Oxford, examined the cultural development of Bangladeshi secular nationalism through literature and cultural production from 1947-1971. Her work examines the intersections between faith, secularism, national identity and gender in the Bangladeshi community and its diasporas. She is currently adapting her thesis into a monograph and writing papers on the religious lives of lascar seafarers in Victorian London and gender and Bangladeshi secular nationalism.

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