WG 1 - Families and Communities

Objectives:

  • 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.

Dr Christine KLAPEER

Germany
University of Kassel

Dr María Isabel ROMERO

Spain
University Of Málaga