LGBT+ research conference 2023

Proud / Loud / Heard ...? 
– exploring LGBT+ identity, being and experiences

Friday 19 May 2023, 10.30am – 4.30pm
Location: in person at the University of Manchester and online

One-day hybrid conference for academics, researchers and activists conducting research on sexual orientation and gender identity issues and/or bisexual, gay, intersex, lesbian, trans, queer ... lives.

The aim of this conference is to explore how LGBT+ people have experienced and /or are experiencing actions and discourse around their self-identities. This may include gender and sexual identity, intersectionality, desire, relationships, experience across the lifespan, politics and solidarity.

This conference is open to all, you don’t have to be a UCU member to attend this event. The conference is free to attend.

Call for papers: deadline 27 February 2023

Proposals (of no more than 500 words) are now invited.

The deadline date for submission is 4pm Monday 27 February 2023..

There will be a peer review process following submission.

Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to:

• Hetero and Cis normativity as context for LGBT+ identity 
• Liberation – LGBT+ and intersectional approaches / aspirations 
• Good As You, not the same as you: LGBT+ identity, stories & struggles
• Gender Identities: trans, non-binary, queering, querying, power
• Histories of and present difference – margins, competing, contestation
• Locating identity - levels of outness, digital expression, communities
• Deconstructing binaries 
• Intersectional LGBT+ identities – class / disability / race / religion 
• International perspectives: stipulations, struggles, self-actualisation
• Cultural differences
• Impact of and overcoming prejudice and discrimination
• Differences across the lifespan: childhood, teenage, adult, older age
• LGBT+ in policy and practice: equality, legislation, usualising diversity
• Realisation or otherwise of life aspirations and expectations
• Negotiating invisibility and visibility – personal, culture, society, media
• Recovering LGBT+ histories 
• Disparities and dialogue: access to services, money + social resources 
• LGBT+ identities and impact in public health research and advocacy
• Differences in thinking about sexuality and sexual practices 
• Collectivity and Solidarity – sites and means of organising and action 
• Understandings of sex: protected characteristic, intersex, biodiversity
• Histories of and present difference –margins, competing, contestation.

Proposals to deliver the research papers can be for academic or action research covering theory and/or practice. 

Proposals should include a 50-word statement explaining the relationship between the paper and the theme and how it relates to LGBT+ issues/lives.

If you have any questions please email Seth Atkin: satkin@ucu.org.uk