Hi all!
There was a lot of interest in continuing our joint writing time on Zoom during the fall, so I have booked three sessions for this, once a month. Everybody is welcome to join at one or all of the sessions.
We work on our own writing projects (or other tasks) and have a short joint introduction and reflections at the end to get to know each other and each other's work a little more. It is a good place to find experts in LGBTQ+ research issues to discuss your current challenges with...
Sept 19, 13.15-15.00 CET
Oct 10, 13.15-15.00 CET
Nov 7, 13.15-15.00 CET
I will send outlook-bookings as well, shortly.
Hope to see you there!
/Kiin
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Kiin Catrine Andersson
Associate Professor (Docent) of Social Work
Department for Social Work, Malmö University
205 06 Malmö
Dear network members,
Maybe the following open webinar on September 17, will be of interest:
https://www.gu.se/evenemang/discourses-of-queer-teachers-in-finnish-schools
The webinar is free of charge.
All the very best,
Ylva
YLVA ODENBRING
PROFESSOR I PEDAGOGIK / PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION (PhD)
University of Gothenburg
Department of Education and Special Education
Principal investigator, PI: Mental health issues and victimization among LGBTQI-youth<https://www.gu.se/en/research/mental-health-issues-and-victimization-among-…>
Selection of recent publications:
Odenbring, Y. & Lindén, L. (2025). Reaching everyone: school nurses’ experiences of including refugee and migrant students in the extended school-based HPV vaccination programme in Sweden. Journal of Research in Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1177/17449871251329001
Odenbring, Y., Görlich, A., Sorbring, E. & Sørensen, N U. (2024). Kränkningar riskerar att bli normaliserade. Skolhälsan. Riksföreningen för skolsköterskor. https://www.e-magin.se/paper/rxztgq8j/paper/1#/paper/1qbgxnt3/34
Dear network,
Hope you all have had or are still enjoying restful and inspiring vacations! We are planning this year's network meeting and do not have a complete plan yet, but I would like to update you with what we do know.
The meeting will be in the beginning of week 48, so November 24-25 or 25-26 . Please save the dates!
Invited key-note will be Professor Róisín Ryan-Flood, director at the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship (CISC), at the University of Essex. She has published widely on LGBTQ+ issues broadly and on queer methodologies specifically.
There might be a possibility for us to meet in Oslo, but it could be Malmö again if we cannot solve some practical issues. I will let you know as soon as possible.
We have received funding for travel and accommodation for approximately 20 people from the Centre for Sexology and Sexuality Studies at Malmö University! We will organize a way to apply for these travel stipends at registration for the network meeting.
Hope to see you in November!
Best,
Catrine
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Kiin Catrine Andersson
Associate Professor (Docent) of Social Work
Department for Social Work, Malmö University
205 06 Malmö
Hi everyone!
And thanks to those of you that participated in the workshop for planning our network meeting for the fall!
We decided that we will arrange a conference/network meeting in Oslo in the last week of November. The theme will be Queer methods and methodologies, and there will be both keynotes and research presentations, as well as a network meeting for planning coming events.
We will have talks with the Nordic research network Queen (QUeer rEfugees rEsearch Network) led by Marlene Spanger, May-Len Skilbrei and Thomas Wimark, to see whether we can arrange this together and combine our research interests!
I am currently applying for funding for travel and accommodation and will let you know how I get on with that.
Considering the theme of the conference we would like to have your suggestions for keynotes, and also suggestions for themed sessions related to queer methods and methodologies! Please let me know your thoughts and ideas on this and I will get back to you with some more detailed plans in June!
Hope to see you at the writing workshop on May 12 as well.
Best,
Catrine
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Kiin Catrine Andersson
Associate Professor (Docent) of Social Work
Department for Social Work, Malmö University
205 06 Malmö
Dear all,
In know I am not so visible in the network, but hope you don't mind that I share this invitation to the coming seminars in this term's Crip and queer seminar series hosted by the Division of Gender studies in Lund. The spring's theme is queer and trans embodiments.
This term's second Crip and Queer Seminar will be 7th May, 13.15-15, in Gamla Lungkliniken 355, hosted by the division of Gender Studies. We are proud to present a lecture by Luca Tainio, adjunct lecturer in Gender Studies at Karlstad University and PhD scholar at Helsinki University: "I'm so proud, I grew it myself": Challenging cisnormative ideals of the penis through trans male embodiment. The Crip and Queer Seminar series is proud to present this lecture. After the seminar - which is open to students, staff, and the general public - we serve fika in the kitchen on the fourth floor of Gamla Lungkliniken. There is an elevator and door openers in the building. Welcome!
Abstract: The seminar explores the notion that the simple division between men with a penis (cis) and those without (trans) fails to capture the embodied realities of many trans men and is largely a discursive construct. Rather than defining trans men's bodies by the absence of 'genital status reserved for cisgender men,' it argues that the non-surgically altered trans penis should be viewed as a body-reflexive practice of masculinity and a key aspect of forming one's trans male identity. The aim is to challenge cultural ideals and to offer a counternarrative to the cisnormative understanding of male embodiment.
Upcoming Crip & Queer seminar:
May 21, 13.15-15, in G:a Lung 355: Creative research methods as a way to move research participants away from individualised conceptualisations of "body image" with Ella Sangmyr, PhD Researcher in the Department for Health at University of Bath and guest scholar at Gender Studies.
Very best regards
Irina and Elin
Irina Schmitt, PhD
Senior lecturer
Division of Gender Studies
Lund University
Box 117
221 00 Lund
Sweden
www.gender.lu.se/irina-schmitt<http://www.gender.lu.se/irina-schmitt>
Pronomen: irina ~ Pronoun: irina (learn more about pronouns here<https://www.mypronouns.org/>)
Latest publications
Schmitt, Irina (2024) Trans och queer - Förhandlingar om kön, genus och sexualitet. Kolankiewicz, Marta, Liinasson, Mia och Sager, Maja (red) Genusvetenskapliga forskningsmetoder. Lund: Nordic Academic Press: 61-77.
Schmitt, Irina, Sager, Maja och Lundell, Elin (2024) Från redaktionen. Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 44(3): 1-3. https://publicera.kb.se/tgv/article/view/39205/29368
Schmitt, Irina (2022) Transgressing purity: Intersectional negotiations of gender identity in Swedish schools. Journal of LGBT Youth https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19361653.2022.2103609
Schmitt, Irina (2022) "'Man måste verkligen ändra i läroböckerna för att få en ändring i samhället'. Kön och könsidentitet i skolan"<../../../Local/Temp/MUCF-RAPPORT-2022-Unga%20hbtqi-personers%20levnadsvillkor-1.pdf>.'Jag är inte ensam, det finns andra som jag' Rapport om unga hbtqi-personers levnadsvillkor. MUCF.
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Hi everyone!
And thanks to those of you that participated in the workshop on applications this Friday - it was great to see you and to discuss important aspects of applications...!
Attached are two presentations from me and Ylva Odenbring, and below are some reflections from the discussion that give you an idea of the topics we discussed and perhaps some inspiration for those of you that could not participate.
Looking forward to seeing you for planning a meeting for the fall, on April 24th, see previous invite.
Best,
Catrine
Reflections from LGBTQ+-H-L Network Workshop on Writing Applications
Consider the call and the reviewers for the call - is the perspective of the application specific to your research field, will someone else get the point?
Consider the balance between problem focused research and more agency focused perspectives - both risk being reductive if not used appropriately.
Put a lot of effort into the methods section, clearly outlining the plans, yearly or in stages etc...
Showing network with important organisations, including letters of intent to help with interviews etc.
In addition to applying for LGBTQ+ projects - consider being the LGBTQ-researcher in larger projects and collaborating across themes and fields.
Building resilience for rejections... Social networks and support from colleagues.
Writing applications is very limiting... More freedom in doing the project if you get funding, at least in Finland and often also in Sweden.
Iceland a small context regarding funding, LGBTQ become grouped together with other vulnerable groups, very few research funding opportunities, but on the other hand short pathways to connecting with organisations, municipalities etc.
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Kiin Catrine Andersson
Associate Professor (Docent) of Social Work
Department for Social Work, Malmö University
205 06 Malmö
