WG 1 - Families and Communities
Objectives
(1) 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; (2) 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;
(3) Write joint publications on specialised topics such as LGBTI+ aging and alternative family structures.
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Working Group Leaders
Working Group Leaders
Dr Jefferson FRANK
United Kingdom
Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr Alberto López Ortega
The Netherlands
VU Amsterdam
WG 2 - Employment and Economic Well-being
Objectives
(1) 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; (2)
Develop training opportunities for PhD students and ECIs in the substantive areas of workplace inclusion/exclusion and LGBTI+ unemployment; (3) Write joint publications on specialised topics, such as pay inequalities and alternative/radical LGBTI+ employee networks.
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Working Group Leaders
Working Group Leaders
Dr Tindara ADDABBO
Italy
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Dr Nick Drydakis
United Kingdom
Anglia Ruskin University
WG 3 - Social and Legal Inclusion
Objectives
(1) Review current policies, political discourse, and laws related to protection from discrimination onthe grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity; (2) 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; (3) Develop training opportunities for PhD students and ECIs in the substantive areas of the reduction of social inequalities and LGBTI+ refugees and asylum seeker; (4) Development of joint publications on specialised topics such as (non/mis)recognition and the prevention of homo/bi/transphobic violence.
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Working Group Leaders
Dr Christine KLAPEER
Germany
University of Kassel
Dr María Isabel ROMERO
Spain
University Of Málaga
