Race/Gender Matters (R/GM) is a research group that captures and concentrates research on theoretical, critical and creative engagements with race, gender and the environment. R/GM emerges from our shared recognition that a strong and substantial core of our research is concerned with materiality and with attendant methodologies which destabilise notions of human and nature, self and world, and that emphasise difference and contingency as conditions of lived experience.
R/GM is transdisciplinary in focus and welcomes the involvement of all staff and postgraduate research students from across Kingston School of Art and the University more widely. Its members seek to:
Group Chair: Dr Martin Dines
Dr Éadaoin Agnew
Dr Hannah Ballou
Dr Matthew Birchwood
Prof Fred Botting
Dr David Linton
Dr Karen Lipsedge
Prof Meg Jensen
Dr Rachael Johnson
Dr Caoimhe Mader McGuinness
Dr James Miller
Dr Celena Monteiro
Dr Daniela Perazzo Domm
Dr Selene Scarsi
Prof Sara Upstone
Prof Isabella van Elferen
Stephanie Dotto
Anna Johnson
Katie Margaret Hall
Perry Hughes
Pippa Lang
Summer Phillips
On 29 June 2017 Kingston University launched the Race/Gender Matters research cluster with a symposium event. With keynotes from Arun Saldanha (University of Minnesota) and Prof. Felicity Coleman (Kingston University), as well as performances from the LGBTQI breakdancing poet, Azara Meghie, and trans poet, Travis Alabanza, the event demonstrated the diverse range of research interests incorporated in this new cluster.