The Gender, Affective Injustice and Health theme had a fantastic year in 2025–26. Building on connections made during a successful research generator event, our reading group met 8 times and catalysed interdisciplinary conversations between a range of colleagues within and beyond Durham University. We explored themes of affect, affective and epistemic injustice as pertains to neurodivergence, gender, and reproductive justice.
An online seminar with Dr Katharine Cheston (IMH) on ME and a hybrid workshop on Autism, Affective Injustice and Gender each explored what is at stake when conditions become gendered. Both attracted more than 120 registrations, evidencing the theme’s position within a burgeoning strand of academic research, as well as engaging significant public and policy audiences.
Our Autism, Affective Injustice and Gender Workshop (July 2026) initiated new networks and connections between scholars working at the interface of autism studies, phenomenology and injustice research including Professor Joel Krueger (Philosophy, Exeter), Dr Lucienne Spencer (Psychiatry, Oxford), Dr Amy Pearson (Psychology, Durham) and Katie Munday (Psychology, Portsmouth) and was written up here.
Colleagues from a wide range of disciplines and career stages took part in our 25/26 series of events, and catalysed plans for AY 26/27 including research seminars (Michaelmas: Dr Aimee Grant, Swansea University) and a co-badged workshop for early career researchers working on reproductive health and justice to be held in Easter term.
In March 26 we shared research findings from the GAIA project - with international colleagues from Linköping University, Chalmers University of Technology, University of Oslo, University of Stavanger, and Tilburg University - as part of the Womens’ Marginalised Health Network (WOMAHN) conference in Oslo, Norway. Building on existing connections between IMH, Linköping University and the WOMAHN network, we are delighted that the theme will be supporting the forthcoming WOMAHN workshop on interdisciplinary methods here at Durham University in December 2026.
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