Global Women's Studies Research Cluster

Overview

The Global Women's Studies Research Cluster brings together academic staff of the Global Women's Studies programme as well as members of the School working on gender-focused areas.  The cluster has played a leading role in the establishment of the NUIG/University of Limerick research network Gender ARC (Advanced Research Consortium on Gender, Culture and the Knowledge Society).  All members of the cluster serve as convenors, coordinators and/or theme leaders in Gender ARC.

The Global Women's Studies Research Cluster is committed to the development of gender-focused research across a range of issues and disciplines within the School of Political Science and Sociology. Research in this area investigates the operation of gendered power relations, gender inequalities, changing notions of gender identity, and the challenges of achieving women's empowerment in Ireland and beyond in a context of globalisation.

We live in a rapidly changing world characterised by intensive globalisation across cultural, economic, political and social arenas. This poses complex questions for how we understand identity, belonging and social relationships from the local and community level to national and global arenas. It also presents new challenges for how we (re)define and realise social inclusion, development, peace, equality and human rights, multilevel governance, rule of law, and democracy. The Gender Research Cluster foregrounds the gender dimensions and women's experiences of these questions and challenges. This means paying attention to the gender specific impacts of globalisation and global issues in everyday life. It also means deepening understanding of how gender, the public/private divide, and socially-constructed sexuality are implicated in today's 'big questions' (e.g. economic crises, the reemergence of religion, migration, conflict, disease pandemics, human trafficking, etc.).

The Gender Cluster advances its objectives in a variety of ways including:

• Undertaking theoretical and empirical research, individually and jointly, culminating in books, peer-reviewed articles and reports
• Editing thematic editions of relevant academic journals
• Participating in externally funded, policy-oriented research projects involving members of the group, others at NUIG with complementary interests, and/or external research partners
• Coordinating and supporting doctoral and postdoctoral research relevant to the cluster's thematic interests
• Convening regular seminars and events to foster discussion and dissemination of research

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