Review current state of affairs affecting LGBT+ people in relation to parenting, partnering and other family relations, inclusion/exclusion, activism and LGBTI+ community support groups and identify methodological challenges and innovations in researching these areas;
Develop training opportunities for PhD students and ECIs in the substantive areas of homelessness and the impact of social media in cementing and/or dismantling communities;
Write joint publications on specialised topics such as LGBTI+ aging and alternative family structures.
Manuel Joseph ELLUL, MA
Malta University of Malta
Prof Jefferson FRANK
United Kingdom Royal Holloway, University of London
WG 2 - Employment and Economic Well-being
Objectives:
Develop a nuanced understanding of the inclusion/exclusion of LGBTI+ employees, career trajectories, wage distribution, (un)employment rates and LGBTI+ employee networks and identify methodological challenges and innovations in researching these areas;
Develop training opportunities for PhD students and ECIs in the substantive areas of workplace inclusion/exclusion and LGBTI+ unemployment;
Write joint publications on specialised topics, such as pay inequalities and alternative/radical LGBTI+ employee networks.
Prof Tindara ADDABBO
Italy University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Prof Nick Drydakis
United Kingdom Anglia Ruskin University
WG 3 - Social and Legal Inclusion
Objectives:
Review current policies, political discourse, and laws related to protection from discrimination onthe grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity;
Review the current state of affairs on hate crime/speech, homo/bi/transphobic violence and other human rights violations as well as on legal gender recognition, reduction of social inequalities in LGBTI+people, politics, law, hate crime/speech, violence, LGBTI+ refugees and asylum seekers;
Develop training opportunities for PhD students and ECIs in the substantive areas of the reduction of social inequalities and LGBTI+ refugees and asylum seeker;
Development of joint publications on specialised topics such as (non/mis)recognition and the prevention of homo/bi/transphobic violence.