Dr. Annette-Carina van der Zaag is currently working on a transdisciplinary project in which she drafts a cartography (diffraction pattern) of sexual difference that moves beyond a male/female binary to include posthuman bodies, queer desires and post-colonial pastpresents.

SINGLE, a collaboration between Dr Melissa Butcher and European partners Prof. Christiane Brosius (University of Heidelberg) and Prof. Jeroen De Kloet (University of Amsterdam), aimed to document the experiences of single women living and working in Delhi and Shangha.

Dr Sophia Connell has undertaken a new research project on the role of women philosophers in the development of early analytic philosophy.

Prof. Matt Cook’s widely shared research on domestic queer cultures has enabled lesbian and gay organisations and individuals to engage with oral histories and archival material and to explore the complexities within conventional ideas about histories of identity and community.

Conceiving Histories looks at the past of un-pregnancy (that is childlessness, trying to conceive, very early pregnancy loss and the ambiguity of early pregnancy diagnosis). It is a collaborative project between literary historian, Dr Isabel Davis and Anna Burel, a visual artist.

Dr Kate Maclean is the principle investigator on the project 'The Chola Bourgeoisie: Processes of displacement, identity and urban change in the Global South'

Dr Lisa McEntee-Atalianis has recently published a paper with Lia Litosseliti on 'Narratives of Sex-segregated Professional Identities'. Her forthcoming book Identity in Applied Linguistics Research includes a chapter on 'Gender and Sexual Identity'.

Prof. Daniel Monk's research explores the relationship between practices of inheritance and sexuality by adopting a variety of doctrinal, empirical, archival and literary methods.

Dr Silvia Posocco co-edited Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions. This work contributes to the critical field of queer decolonial studies by demonstrating how sexuality, race, gender and religion intersect transnationally.

The aim of this two year ESRC funded project was to provide evidence about the experiences of au pairs and host families in the UK since the ending of the au pair visa in November 2008.

Dr Julia Laite is a researcher on this project exploring sex, work and migration in modern history.