We have organised two exciting one-hour panel discussions with a focus on Critical Military Studies. The first panel will delve into the core issues that female soldiers face while trying to integrate into roles traditionally fit for male soldiers. The second will address why hegemonic masculinities are toxic for both genders and how they can be tackled in state institutions including the military.
The panels have been organised, and will be chaired by, Mariah Loukou, Elections and Funding Officer of BISA PGN Committee.
The panellists include:
Dr Alice Cree, Newcastle University
Dr Alice Cree is a Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Politics & Sociology at Newcastle University. Dr Cree uses participatory theatre-as-method to examine gendered military experience, in particular with women veterans and military partners. From August 2020, Dr Cree will be working on the ESRC New Investigator project 'Conflict, Intimacy, and Military Wives: A Lively Geopolitics'.
Dr Ayelet Harel-Shalev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr Ayelet Harel-Shalev is a Senior Lecturer at the Conflict Management and Resolution Program, and Affiliated Faculty at the Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University. Dr Harel-Shalev is also a Research Fellow at the I-Core Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters.
Hannah West, University of Bath
Hannah West is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at University of Bath. Mrs West is exploring the idea of ‘women as counterinsurgents’ through a Foucauldian genealogy, analysing a number of moments or events in British counterinsurgency campaigns from Malaya, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and contemporary operations. Mrs West is also the Chair of the Defense Research Network.
Dr Natasha Danilova, University of Aberdeen
Dr Natasha Danilova is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen. Dr Danilova has previously taught at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the University of Nottingham and University of Exeter on research methods in social science, gender studies, and politics of war memory. Dr Danilova has also achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.
Dr Emma Dolan, University of Aberdeen
Dr Emma Dolan is an Honorary Teaching Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. Dr Dolan specialises on gender, feminist theories and political apologies. Dr Dolan is also currently working on the ‘War Commemoration, Military Culture, & Identity Politics in Scotland’ project funded by The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
Dr Emily Yarrow, University of Portsmouth
Dr Emily Yarrow is a Lecturer in International Human Resource Management at Portsmouth Business School. Emily's research focuses on the impact of research evaluation on female academics' careers; gendered networks; and inequality regimes. Her work contributes to understandings of gendered organizational behaviour and women's lived experiences of organisational life.
If you can't join us for both panels you are welcome to attend just one. The Zoom link will be the same for both.