CentreLGS Postgraduate Workshop 2005

To be held at
University of Westminster
Sunday, 20 March 2005

This event is open to all postgraduate students from the Centre partners (Keele, Kent and Westminster) and to all postgraduate students working in relevant research areas.

It is planned that the morning will be devoted to presentations by senior researchers from the Centre discussing the various ways they approach their material, in the context of the methodological debates surrounding their particular research interests.

Confirmed speakers and titles for the morning session of the Postgraduate Training Day include:

• Ruth Fletcher (Keele) on Socio-Legal Methods

• Lieve Gies (Keele) on Cultural Studies

• Matthew Weait (Keele) on Law as Strategy

• Rosemary Auchmuty and Andrea Jarman (Westminster) on Historical Methods

• Joanne Conaghan (Kent) on Doctrinal Analysis

• Maria Drakopoulou (Kent) on Philosophy and Legal Theory

The afternoon session will be open to the postgraduate participants who are invited to address a particular intellectual or methodological question or challenge they have faced in their research and the ways they decided to deal with it, and to seek help and advice in the ensuring discussions. You can download a provisional programme here.

If you would like to attend the workshop and/or talk about your work, please download and return the PG Day Reply Form.

The workshop is free for Centre members from the three partner institutions. For non-Centre members, there is a charge of £10.00 to cover costs.

Cheques should be made payable to UNIKENT and sent, with the reply form, to:
The Centre Co-ordinator, AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury. CT2 2NS.

The Centre has also set up an email list for postgraduate students interested in Gender, Sexuality and the Law to subscribe to in order to keep in touch with Centre events and with each other. For more information or to subscribe to this email list, please contact Rosie Harding by email: rh83@kent.ac.uk.

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The workshop will be one of three events taking place at Westminster University over this weekend, with the AHRC Research Centre in Law, Gender and Sexuality Annual Lecture taking place on the evening of 18th March, and the ESRC Gender and Sexuality Workshop entitled “Sex in Criminal Justice” taking place on Friday and Saturday 18th-19th March.