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The RESIST Project Events. Confronting "Anti- Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Filep, E., Jarosz, S., Kulpa, R., Mayerchyk, M., Plakhotnik, O., Sasunkevich, O. (., & Zabrzewska, A. (2025, March). The RESIST Project Events. Confronting "Anti- Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances. Presented at Confronting "Anti- Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances, Online and Warsaw, Poland

During the event, the RESIST Project Team and our guest speakers led discussions on queer-feminist resistances to “anti-gender” mobilizations in and across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia – four distinct national case studies that intersect at a... Read More about The RESIST Project Events. Confronting "Anti- Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances.

The RESIST Project Events. Online Findings Launch: Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rodó-Zárate, M., Blidon, M., Akyüz, L., Boulila, S. C., Browne, K., Carastathis, A., Filep, E., & Kulpa, R. (2024, October). The RESIST Project Events. Online Findings Launch: Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe. Presented at The RESIST Project Events. Online Findings Launch: Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe, Online

The online launch event for the “Effects of, and Resistances to ‘Anti-Gender’ Mobilisations Across Europe”, an output from the Work Package 2 (WP2) of the RESIST Project. Recording of the event available on RESIST Project YouTube Channel: https://www... Read More about The RESIST Project Events. Online Findings Launch: Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe.

Fighting intersectional repressions: countering 'anti-gender' violence at the intersection with LGBTQ+ rights (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R., & Filep, E. (2024, October). Fighting intersectional repressions: countering 'anti-gender' violence at the intersection with LGBTQ+ rights. Presented at 'The EU Public Diplomacy. Russia' Project. A Feminist Foreign Policy Perspective on War and Society, Warsaw, PL

'The EU Public Diplomacy. Russia' Project is funded by the EU’s Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI). It aims at creating space for dialogue and strengthening the ties between the EU and selected Russian audiences. As part of the project activities, Dr K... Read More about Fighting intersectional repressions: countering 'anti-gender' violence at the intersection with LGBTQ+ rights.

Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, September). Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’. Presented at 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (EGSC) 2024, University of Brighton, UK

Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity or self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in orde... Read More about Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’..

UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers" (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers". Presented at Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL

In this invited contribution, Dr Kulpa will share reflections on how EDI (equality, diversity, and inclusion) and decolonialisation work in the UK academic contexts, embedded in the processes of neoliberalization of higher education in the anglophone... Read More about UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers".

Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. Presented at UCU Equality Research Conference 2024, University of Manchester, UK

Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity, and self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in or... Read More about Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities..

Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking: Migration, labour, and the war in Ukraine (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharapov, K., & Mendel, J. (2024, May). Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking: Migration, labour, and the war in Ukraine. Presented at 33rd session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), Vienna, Austria

Presentation at the side event on Human trafficking and exploitation in the context of armed conflicts: perspectives from Africa, Europe, and Latin America at the 33rd session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), United... Read More about Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking: Migration, labour, and the war in Ukraine.

Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland. Presented at Public Lectures of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

On the 08 May 2024, Dr Kulpa presented a Commentary: "Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antira... Read More about Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland.

Influence policing: exploring the use of targeted digital 'nudge' communications by law enforcement in the UK (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Collier, B., & Horgan, S. (2023, September). Influence policing: exploring the use of targeted digital 'nudge' communications by law enforcement in the UK. Paper presented at 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Florence, Italy

This paper describes an emerging phenomenon in UK policing: the use of behavioural ‘nudge’ communications campaigns. These campaigns are both a reaction to a UK political and policing context of multiple overlapping crises, many of which are perceive... Read More about Influence policing: exploring the use of targeted digital 'nudge' communications by law enforcement in the UK.

Critical perspectives on policing rural environments: Cops, context, communication and COVID-19 (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wooff, A., Horgan, S., & Tatnell, A. (2023, September). Critical perspectives on policing rural environments: Cops, context, communication and COVID-19. Presented at 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Florence, Italy

Recent work on policing in rural communities has highlighted the importance of reflecting critically on the context and environment being policed. Research has pointed to the importance of police discretion, order maintenance and police-community rel... Read More about Critical perspectives on policing rural environments: Cops, context, communication and COVID-19.

Protecting Public Facing Professionals Online (3PO): Privacy policies and protections in routine police management (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horgan, S., Aston, L., & Wong, Y. N. (2023, September). Protecting Public Facing Professionals Online (3PO): Privacy policies and protections in routine police management. Paper presented at 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Florence, Italy

This paper explores the ways in which police organizations conceptualize and operationalize their sense of responsibility for officers’ online safety and privacy. Police officers and organizations are increasingly the targets of cyber-attacks and tec... Read More about Protecting Public Facing Professionals Online (3PO): Privacy policies and protections in routine police management.

RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2023, September). RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems. Presented at Contesting 21st Century B/Orders, Frankfurt

In this presentation Roberto and the RESIST project team will reflect on the meanders of the contemporary higher education and research sectors across Europe from the perspectives of queer-feminist researchers located in diverse geopolitical contexts... Read More about RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems.

What ‘Work’ Does Precarity Do? Understanding the Stigmatisation and Commodification of Asylum Seekers in Temporary Housing (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, G., Guma, T., Macleod, K., Sharapov, K., Blake, Y., & Makutsa, R. (2023, April). What ‘Work’ Does Precarity Do? Understanding the Stigmatisation and Commodification of Asylum Seekers in Temporary Housing. Paper presented at BSA Annual Conference 2023: Sociological Voices in Public Discourse, Manchester

News coverage and public policy over the past 20 years portrays asylum seekers as a burden that must be shared across the country. Through policy choices over this time originating in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, asylum accommodation operates... Read More about What ‘Work’ Does Precarity Do? Understanding the Stigmatisation and Commodification of Asylum Seekers in Temporary Housing.

A Crisis of Energy: Plant Work and Sustainability in Professional Kitchens (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hill, D., & Maclean, G. (2023, April). A Crisis of Energy: Plant Work and Sustainability in Professional Kitchens. Paper presented at BSA Annual Conference 2023: Sociological Voices in Public Discourse, Manchester

Professional kitchens find themselves at the forefront of ‘polycrisis’: a recruitment crisis born of tightened borders; a cost-of-living crisis based on soaring food and energy costs that pose an existential threat to the entire hospitality sector; a... Read More about A Crisis of Energy: Plant Work and Sustainability in Professional Kitchens.

Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2022, December). Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?. Presented at Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “The West” in History of Education, University of Münster, Germany

The invited lecture reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imaginary.

Dr Kulpa pointed to the uncanny possibilities for queer studies eme... Read More about Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?.

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Justice Voluntary Sector (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., & Haddow, C. (2022, June). The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Justice Voluntary Sector. Paper presented at British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Surrey, UK

Third sector organisations (TSOs) have a long history of complementing work done by statutory agencies in criminal justice, to the extent that that TSOs no longer sit outside the criminal justice system and have instead become integral to its functio... Read More about The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Justice Voluntary Sector.

Production of Bureaucracy/Bureaucracies of Production: Understanding formal organisation on and off screen (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, G. (2022, June). Production of Bureaucracy/Bureaucracies of Production: Understanding formal organisation on and off screen. Paper presented at Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference, Edge Hill University [online]

The post-2016 conjuncture can be viewed in terms of an anti-bureaucratic romanticism in parts of the Global North (Lopdrup-Hjorth and Du Gay, 2020). The votes for Brexit in the UK and the rise of right-wing populists, such as Donald Trump, can be clo... Read More about Production of Bureaucracy/Bureaucracies of Production: Understanding formal organisation on and off screen.