Transforming sexuality and gender

These pages hold legacy content of completed research. Our new online home is the Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender.

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The transforming sexuality and gender research group brings together a wide group of researchers from across the university who are conducting research in LGBTQ.

The transforming sexuality and gender research cluster brings together researchers from across the university who are working on themes related to sexuality, gender and social change with a core focus on producing research with community partners that impacts on policy and practice.

The cluster has longstanding strengths in research relevant to LGBT Queer Lives as well as sex, sexuality and health, with other hubs of activity emerging. Many of our researchers have a shared commitment to feminist, post-structuralist and queer theoretical approaches and use a variety of methodologies that are participatory, visual and creative.

The cluster offers researchers access to its own methodological space, The Creative Methods Lab, a brand-new and beautifully designed room where researchers meet to develop and conduct research, using state-of the-art visual and audio recording equipment. Cluster activities are disseminated regularly via seminars and workshops. We also host a number of international conferences, and provide a lively and collegiate research culture to support doctoral students and academic staff alike.

The mission of the Transforming sexuality and gender research group is to:

build on the established international reputation for impact-based and community engaged research established by the LGBT Queer Lives Research hub
extend the critical mass of researchers working in sexuality and gender related topics across the university and via national and international associate membership, increases research capacity and expertise.
maintain our distinctiveness through focus on the core intellectual values of participation, transformation, social justice and methodological innovation via participatory, visual and creative methods.

LGBT Queer lives

The aim of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and (LGBT) Queer Life theme is to bring together research related to contemporary LGBTQ sexualities and gender identities and to support researchers working within this field through the formation of alliances and collaborations. This empowered, consolidated and enhanced knowledge exchange functions to identify pertinent collaborative opportunities as well as optimising the visibility of LGBT Queer research at the university. The LGBT Queer Life research aims to capitalise on links with community groups, the voluntary and statutory sectors, and others to develop LGBT Queer community-based research in tandem with scholarly research.

Some of the practical functions of this research area include developing, documenting and disseminating research projects, initiatives and publications with both national and international reach. Furthermore, we showcase key current and emerging LGBTQ gender and sexualities research across disciplines through its annual lecture series. We play a part both in international and local networks; we organise international conferences as well as local events and brings into conversation disciplines, research clusters, action groups and projects across the University of Brighton.

Read the Making Lives Liveable (pdf) article in the Making Research Matter (pdf) publication.

LGBT Queer lives research projects

Liveable Lives

Working with LGBTQ communities in UK and India to create a liveability model that can be adapted globally.

Make, Share, Care: Social Media and LGBTQ Youth Engagement

Addressing the challenges and possibilities of social media to help generate and support outreach work with young LGBTQ people.

Trans needs assessment

Identifying the unmet needs and the assets of the Trans community in Brighton & Hove.

Participatory visual and creative methods

Our research uses participatory visual and creative methods to draw out and develop the issues surrounding transforming sexuality and gender.

The aim of the new Creative Methods Lab is to provide a ‘methodological’ space to support researchers using Participatory visual and creative methods, in the facilitation of research meetings and the formation of focus group discussions. Some of the practical functions of the lab include the use of creative arts-based methods for digital storytelling and media analysis making it an ideal space for doctoral student reading groups, research team meetings and conferences. It is hoped that the investment in a combination of creative and visual methods resources, which include Lego, craft materials, GoPro cameras and a BlackMagic Cinema camera, will enhance both research clusters and projects across the University of Brighton.

Mediating age and ageing

Dr Jayne Raisborough’s Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) fellowship has enabled her to explore the real world problems associated with anti-ageing culture. More specifically, she investigates what other forms of learning (personal and political) are used to help navigate anti-ageing culture as one ages. Her empirical project involves feminist-identified women of different ages in a reflexive identification of the framing devices, and their complex responses to them, in the television show How Not to Grow Old and in the production of a self-conscious pedagogical film How to Grow Old. The intention is to identify and share different articulations of ‘learning to be old’ as a means to interrogate and interrupt the workings of anti-ageing discourse, its psychosocial harms, and the reproduction of neoliberal rationalities working through them.

Participatory visual and creative methods research projects

"I will tell you something of my own"

Celebrating and exploring the lives of people with dementia - helping to combat dementia stigma.

Sex, sexuality and health

Research into sex, sexuality and health examines interactions between lived experience, policy and practice and how these affect physical and mental health and well-being in UK and international contexts. Critical perspectives on policy, practices and service delivery support understandings of the context and lived experience of citizens and (health) service-users.

Within this research theme we research:

Health and illness

Our research critically explores the lived experiences of health, illness and disability. Drawing on critical, feminist and queer theory, using creative and participatory methodologies, this research focuses on both the promotion of health and prevention of illness and explores what makes life liveable, in sickness and in health (mental and physical), in contexts of enduring and increasing social inequalities that shape experiences of health and care for individuals, their families and their communities. The research resists pathologising accounts of queer lives and is non-normative in nature in order to bring about transformation as part of a broader sociopolitical drive.

Infection and disease

The social and physical experience of sexuality and gender has implications for physical (and mental) health. Our research includes a core focus on sexual health and HIV incorporating approaches that range from behavioural interventions in health outcomes to critiques of service policy and design.

Additional information on our research can be found at the Centre for Health Research

Social and cultural wellbeing

Researchers critically examine how sexual practices, identities and difficulties are inscribed with meanings which limit, constrain or enable liveable lives for individuals whose experience is structured by multiple and intersecting inequalities or privileges.

Sex, sexuality and health research projects

Orgasmic bodies

Examining the meanings given to orgasmic bodies in contemporary heterosex.

SIALON II

Capacity building in combining targeted prevention with meaningful HIV surveillance among men who have sex with men (MSM).

Everywhere project

Multi-sectorial network for the prevention of HIV/AIDS for Men Having Sex with Men (MSM).

Everywhere project in Japan

A small feasibility study into whether the Everywhere project can be successfully implemented in a Japanese context.

The Sussex LGBTU Training and Development Research Partnership

Addressing the training needs of practitioners and/or professionals working with young people across Sussex.

LGBTU youth research

West Sussex Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Unsure (LGBTU) youth research project.

Research team

Kay Aranda

Leela Baksi

Sumita Basu Bandyopadhyay

Niharika Banerjea

Rukmini Banerjee

Poushali Basak

Ranjita Biswas

Dr Sara Bragg

Professor Kath Browne

Glynis Flood

Hannah Frith

Sue Ginn

Caroline Hall

Dr Tomas Hernandez

Dr Olu Jenzen

Leanne Bogen-Johnston

Professor Katherine Johnson

Irmi Karl

Nick McGlynn

Dr Christina Panton

Rebeka Pope

Dr Nigel Sherriff

Fiona Sutton

Shelby Wigmore

Dr Laetitia Zeeman

Output

Sherriff, N.S. Hamilton, W., Wigmore, S., and Giambrone, B. (2011). 'What do you say to them?' Investigating and Supporting the Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Young People. Journal of Community Psychology, 39(8), 939-955.

Wigmore, S., Sherriff, N.S. and Bogen-Johnston, L. (2009). The Sussex Training and Development Research Partnership. Final report prepared for the Brighton and Sussex Community Knowledge Exchange (BSCKE): Brighton, University of Brighton.

Hamilton, W., Sherriff, N.S., and Wigmore, S. (2009) The Sussex Training and Development Research Partnership: Accessible Summary Report

Choudrey, S., Devine, M., Jenzen, O. and Karl, I. (2015) ‘Mediating Trans* Youth: Sexual cultures, youth engagement work and education in/through social media making’, Plenary roundtable at the conference Sexual Cultures 2: Academia meets Activism, University of Sunderland, 8-10 April. Co-presented with Allsorts youth workers.

Frith, H. (2015) Sexercising to orgasm: Embodied pedagogy and sexual labour in women’s magazines. Sexualities, 18(3): 310-328.

Frith, H. (2014) Visualising the ‘real’ and the ‘fake’: Emotion work and the representation of orgasm in pornography and everyday sexual interactions. Journal of Gender Studies, 24(4): 386-398.

Frith, H. (2013) Labouring on Orgasms: Embodiment, Efficiency, Entitlement and Obligations. Culture, Health and Sexuality. 15(4): 494-510.

Frith, H. (2012) Accounting for orgasmic absence: Responses to ‘missing orgasms in heterosexual sex using the story completion method’, Psychology and Sexuality. 4(3): 310-322.

Frith, H. (2012)“CONGRATS!! You had an orgasm”: Constructing orgasm on an internet discussion board. Feminism and Psychology. 23(2): 252-260.

Gregory, H. (2014a). "I Will Tell You Something of My Own" – Promoting Personhood in Dementia Through Performative Social Science. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 15 (3): Art 18. Available online here.

Gregory, H. (2014b). "I'm No Different." The Psychologist, 27 (8): Centre page spread. Available online here.

Gregory, H. (2014c). ‘I Will Tell You Something of My Own’ – Using the Arts and Science to Explore Life with Dementia. Journal of Dementia Care, March/April.

Gregory, H. (Under review). “Nothing’s Solid” - Exploring the Lived Experience of People with Dementia Through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Qualitative Health Research.

Jenzen, O., and Karl, I. (2014) Make, share, care: Social media and LGBTQ youth engagement. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.5.

Jenzen, O. and Allsorts (2014), Social Media @ Allsorts in Lockton, D., Greene, C., Casey, A., Raby, E., & Vickress, A. (eds) Creative Citizens’ Variety Pack: Inspiring digital ideas from community projects, London: Royal College of Art. ISBN 978-1-907342974.

Jenzen, O., and Karl, I. (2014) Reaching – OUT: Social Media at the Margins: The Allsorts Project, Research News, 33, 11-12.

Jenzen, O. and Karl, I. (2013) ‘Social media and LGBTQ Youth Mental Health Support –reaching the hard to reach’ at the Social Media conference (Fourth Annual Transforming Audiences Conference), University of Westminster, 2-3 September.

Friboulet, D., Alexandre, A., McDonnell, L., Sherriff, N.S., and Tunstall, B. (2010a). Everywhere Assessment Tool for Minimum and Premium Seal of Approval. Final report on behalf of the Everywhere Project Consortium, Brighton; University of Brighton.

Hernandez, T., Rojas, D., Gil, S., Martin-Perez, A. (2008). Operative report on HIV prevention methodology targeting MSM in eight European countries, Madrid, Direccion General de Atencion Primaria.

Pottinger, E., McDonnell, L., and Sherriff, N.S. (2010). The Everywhere Project: Continuous and Final Evaluation. Final report on behalf of the Everywhere Project Consortium, Brighton; University of Brighton.

Sherriff, N.S., and Gugglberger, L. (2014). A European Seal of Approval in HIV prevention for ‘gay’ businesses: findings from an HIV prevention pilot project in eight European countries. Perspectives in Public Health, 134(3), 150-159. DOI:10.1177/1757913913481540.

Sherriff, N.S., McDonnell, E., Tunstall, B., Bogen-Johnston, L., and O’Brien, O. (2013). Engaging ‘gay’ businesses in HIV Prevention ‘Everywhere’: findings from a qualitative study involving business owners in eight European Cities. Health Education Journal, 72(1), 13-23.

Sherriff, N.S. (2012a). A feasibility study to explore the piloting of the Everywhere Project in Japan. Report to the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. Brighton: University of Brighton.

Sherriff, N.S. (2012b). Everywhere: Engaging 'gay' businesses in HIV Prevention: Feasibility workshops to explore the piloting of the Everywhere Project in Japan. Report to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's Research Group on HIV Prevention Policy, Program Implementation and Evaluation among MSM as part of a Japan Foundation for AIDS Prevention's (JFAP) Fellowship. Brighton: University of Brighton

Sherriff, N.S. (2011). A methodological model of HIV prevention in men who have sex with men (MSM). The Everywhere Project. Final report to the European Commission. Brighton: University of Brighton.

Sherriff, N.S., McDonnell, L., Sutton, F., Tunstall, B., Friboulet, D., Alexandre, A. Martín-Pérez, A., Hernández-Fernández, T on behalf of the Everywhere Consortium (2010b). Everywhere: A European Seal of Approval in HIV Prevention for ‘gay’ and MSM businesses. Brighton; University of Brighton.

Sherriff, N.S. (2009). A methodological model of HIV prevention in men who have sex with men (MSM). The Everywhere Project. Interim report to the European Commission, Brighton: University of Brighton.

Tunstall, B. (2009). Training workbook on social mediation with gay and MSM businesses regarding HIV/STI prevention, Brighton: Terrence Higgins Trust.

Hamilton, W., Sherriff, N.S., and Wigmore, S. (2009) The Sussex Training and Development Research Partnership: Accessible Summary Report

Sherriff, N.S. and Pope, R. (2008). The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Unsure (LGBTU) Youth Research Project: Views and experiences of young people living in West Sussex, Education and Health, 26(4),63-66.

Pope, R., and Sherriff, N.S. (2008). West Sussex Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Unsure (LGBTU) Youth Project, Final report to the West Sussex Youth Service and West Sussex PCT: Brighton, University of Brighton.

Presentations

Sherriff, N.S. (2014). The Everywhere framework for HIV prevention among MSM using ‘gay’ businesses. Invited paper and expert panel member at the HIV/AIDS Media Cluster meeting ‘Joining together to tackle HIV in Europe by using the Health programme project results’, 12-13th June 2014, Athens, Greece.

Sherriff, N.S. (2013). The Everywhere Framework for HIV Prevention in ‘gay’ businesses. Invited speaker to the EC session on HIV Prevention in Europe at the XVI National Aids Impact Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 29th Sept – 2nd Oct. 2013.

Sherriff, N.S. (2013). Lessons learned from the HIV-COBATEST and other experiences of other European HIV Projects. Invited discussant for the EC open session on European HIV Prevention at the HIV-COBATEST Final Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 27th September, 2013.

Sherriff, N.S. (2012). Everywhere: A European Seal of Approval in HIV Prevention for ‘gay’ and MSM businesses. Invited presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Study Group on the Development of Community Based HIV Prevention for MSM, Tokyo, Japan, 21-22nd January, 2012.

Sherriff, N.S. (2012). MSM and HIV: Recent developments in the UK and Europe. Invited presentation to the School of Nursing, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan, 18th January, 2012.

Sherriff, N.S., Tunstall, B., Martín-Pérez, A., Hernandez, T., Arribas, M., López, G., Expósito, A., Soriano, R., Rico, J., Aguirre Martín-Gil, R., Alexandre, A., and Friboulet, D., (2011). Everywhere: A European Seal of Approval in HIV Prevention for ‘gay’ and MSM businesses. Special session on Business & Pleasure: The Role of Commercial Actors in Prevention at The Future of European (HIV) Prevention among Men who have Sex with Men (FEMP), 9-10th November, 2011, Stockholm, Sweden.

Sherriff, N.S. (2011). Everywhere: A European Seal of Approval in HIV Prevention for ‘gay’ businesses. Invited external expert presentation for European Commission HIV/AIDS Think Tank, Brussels, Belgium, 28-29th June 2011.

Martín-Pérez Rodriguez, A., Morán Arribas, M., Lopez, G., Lara Expósito, A., Sherriff, N.S., Sutton, F., Soriano Ocón, R., Rico Bermejo, J., Aguirre Martin-Gil, R. (2011). Validación de los estándares del proyecto Europeo Everywhere para acreditar la participación del sector privado en la prevención del VIH para HSH. Paper presented at the XIV Congreso Nactional Sobre el Sida, 15-17th June, 2011, Zaragoza, Spain.

Sherriff, N.S. (2011). The Everywhere Manual: A European Seal of Approval in HIV Prevention for ‘gay’ businesses. Invited external expert presentation for the H-CUBE project, Ministry of Health, Warsaw, Poland, 16-17th May 2011.

Sherriff, N.S. (2010). Engaging ‘gay’ businesses in HIV Prevention focusing on Men who have Sex with Men (MSM): The Everywhere Project. Invited lecture to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 1st November 2010.

Sherriff, N.S., Martín-Pérez Rodriguez, A., and Tunstall, B. (2010). The Everywhere Concept: A European methodological model of HIV prevention in men who have sex with men. Paper presented at Everywhere Final Dissemination Seminar of the Everywhere Project, Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social, Madrid, Spain, 9-10th September, 2010.

Sherriff, N.S., Tunstall, B., and Malkuszewski, T. (2010). Engaging the business sector across Europe in HIV prevention that targets Men who have sex with men (MSM). Poster presented at the XVIII International AIDS Conference, 18-23 July 2010, Vienna, Austria.

Sherriff, N.S. (2010). Building capacity and commitment of the business sector EVERYWHERE: HIV prevention targeting men who have sex with men (MSM) in 8 European countries. Poster presented at the 20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, 11-15 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.

Martín-Pérez, A., Morán, M., Lopez, G., del Carmen Olmedom, M., Ultra, J., Rico, J., Aguirre, R., Sherriff, N.S., McDonnell, L., Sutton, F. (2010). Estándares para la participación del sector privado en la prevención del VIH dirigida a HSH: Proyecto Everywhere. Paper presented at the XIII Congreso Nactional Sobre el Sida, 16-18th June, 2010, Santiago de compostela, Spain.

McDonnell, L., and Sherriff, N.S. (2010). Everywhere. Un modelo metodológico europeo de prevención del VIH en HSH. Paper presented at the Vulnerability and HIV in Europe conference, 13th April, 2010, Madrid, Spain.

Tunstall, B. and Mcdonnell, L., and Sherriff, N.S. (2010). Building Social Responsibility in Gay Venues. Plenary session presented at the 13th Annual CHAPS Conference, 2nd-3rd March 2010, Sheffield.

Sherriff, N.S. and Hernandez, T. (2009). The Everywhere Project: A European methodological model of HIV prevention in men who have sex with men (2008-2010). Poster presented at the 2nd European Public Health Conference on Human Ecology and Public Health, 25-28th November, 2009, Lodz, Poland.

Sherriff, N.S. (2008). Men who have Sex with Men (MSM): The Everywhere Project and a brief epidemiological overview of the UK and Brighton. Invited presentation to the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe meeting of MSM-prevention in Europe, Berlin, Germany, 13th-15th November, 2008.

Sherriff, N.S. and Hernandez, T. (2009). The Everywhere Project: a methodological model of HIV prevention in men who have sex with men (MSM). Poster presented at the 5th International Aids Society conference HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in South Africa, Cape Town, 19-22nd July, 2009.

Sherriff, N.S. (2009). Modelo metodologico de prevencion del VHI en hombres que tienen sexo con hombres: En todas partes, Everywhere. Paper presented at the 5th European Conference on Clinical and Social Research on AIDS and Drugs pre-meeting workshop on HIV/AIDS projects funded under the Health Programme 2003-2008, 28th April, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Sherriff, N.S. and Hernandez, T. (2009). A European methodological model of HIV prevention in men who have sex with men (MSM) Poster presented at the 5th European Conference on Clinical and Social Research on AIDS and Drugs, Vilnius, Lithuania, 28-30th April, 2009.

Media coverage – SIALON II project

SIALON II Project: BBC South East TV News (report), 31 May 2013.

SIALON II Project: BBC Radio Sussex, 31 May 2013, by Neil Pringle.

“HIV tests offered at Brighton and Hove gay venues”, 31 May, 2013, BBC News

“Brighton and Hove gay venues to now offer HIV tests”, 7 June, 2013, Brighton and Hove Independent.

“Swabs at gay venues in Brighton and Hove help crucial research into HIV”, 2 June, 2013, The Argus.

“HIV testing at gay venues”, 31 May 2013, Reproductive Health Matters.

“Brighton: Gay businesses take part in HIV mouth swab project”, 31 May 2013. Pink News.

Sources/links

Trans needs assessment full report (pdf)

Olu Jenzen: media and popular culture research blog

Collaborations

Allsorts Youth Project

Age UK Gloucestershire

Alzheimer’s Society

Emmaus

Brighton and Sussex Knowledge Exchange (BSCKE)

Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP)

Allsorts Youth Project

Young People in Focus

Terrence Higgins Trust

South East Coast Specialised Commissioning Group (SECSCG)

West Sussex Primary Care Trust

Economic & Social Research Council

Sappho For Equality

University of Southern Indiana

Brighton & Hove City Council

UNAIDS

WHO

ECDC

Professor Emma Renold, University of Cardiff - Prinicipal Investigator

Professor Carolyn Jackson, University of Lancaster

Professor Jessica Ringrose, UCL Institute of Education

Research Unit in Behaviour & Social Issues (RUBSI)

Društvo študentski kulturni center (SKUC MANGUS)

Społeczny Komitet ds. AIDS (SKA)

Associazione Nazionale Per La Lotta Contro L'aids - Sezione Lombarda (ANLAIDS)

Società Ricerca e Formazione (SRF)

Syndicate National Des Enterprises Gaies (SNEG)

Terrence Higgins Trust (THT)

West Sussex Youth Service

West Sussex Children and Young People’s Services

South East Coast Specialised Commissioning Group (SECSCG)

Háttér Társaság a Melegekért (HTM)

Dirección General de Attención Primaria (DGAP) Fundación Triángulo

The Daiwa Foundation,

Nagoya City University International Relations CommitteeT

The Japan Foundation for AIDS Prevention

The European Commission’s Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC)

The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s Research Group on HIV Prevention Policy

Nagoya City University

dista

Angel Life Nagoya

LIFE Toka; akta; Place

JaNP+; MASH

Yarokko

Love Act Fukuoka

nankr

Haat Ehime

Brighton and Sussex Knowledge Exchange (BSCKE)

Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP)

Allsorts Youth Project

Young People in Focus

South East Coast Specialised Commissioning Group (SECSCG)

West Sussex Primary Care Trust

AOUI - Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata, Verona - Italy

IHMT - Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisboa - Portugal

IGTIP - Fundació Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol

ICO - Institut Catala d'OncologiaBarcelona - Spain

INBI - Institutul National De Boli Infectioase Prof. Dr. Matei Balș, Bucuresti - Romania

ISS - Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome - Italy

ITG - Prins Leopold Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Antwerpen - Belgium

NCIPD - National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia - Bulgaria

NIPH - National Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana - Slovenia

NIZP-PZH - National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene, Warszawa - Poland

RKI - Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin - Germany

SMI – Smittskyddinstitutet, Solna, Stockholm - Sweden

SMU - Slovak Medical University, Bratislava - Slovakia

ULAC - Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS, Vilnius - Lithuania

UOB - University of Brighton, Brighton - United Kingdom

ACCEPT, Bucuresti - Romania

ANDOS - Associazione Nazionale contro le Discriminazioni per Orientamento Sessuale, Roma - Italy

ARCIGAY - Associazione LGBT Italiana, Bologna - Italy

ASMEDA, Vilnius - Lithuania

DHA - Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe, Berlin - Germany

DOM SVETLA - Light house, Bratislava - Slovakia

GAT, Lisboa - Portugal

Hein & Fiete, Hamburg - Germany

HWB - Association Health Without Borders, Sofia – Bulgaria

INMI - Istituto Nazionale Malattie Infettive, Roma - Italy

Lambda Warsawa Association, Warszawa - Poland

Steering group

The Cluster’s Steering Group work to initiate, develop and disseminate the outcomes of TGSR’s research activities. Composed of active researchers drawn from, and representative of, all parts of the University where work relevant to the Cluster takes place, the Steering Group oversees the creation and maintenance of a diverse Researcher Membership across schools and colleges, disciplines and methods, and research groupings, and ensures TGSR is accessible and receptive.

Responsibilities

The Steering Group will:

Monitor the progress of the research cluster against its goals, and keep these goals and the overall cluster plan under review.
Advocate for community-based impact research
Encourage and strengthen links between the cluster and other relevant bodies, which may include other the university, other research clusters/centres within and outside of the university.
Motivate project staff and contributors to engage with the mission of the cluster
Determine the strategic and operational direction of the cluster
Disseminate the work of the cluster to key audiences
Monitor the cluster’s expenditure and the overall work of the project – outcomes and finances should be reviewed at every meeting.
Provide a high level of debate, which draws on members’ experiences
Secure resources to support the work of the cluster and its members and oversee budgetary activity

Awards, recognition, impact