Name: Producing and reflecting on research-based comic books
Start: 2026-06-04T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-04T15:00:00+01:00
Location: University of Stirling

Producing and reflecting on research-based comic books

This session will explore the use of graphic narrative methods in research, focusing particularly on addressing heteronormative perceptions
About this Event

Deadline to book a place: 31 March.

Description:

This session will explore the use of graphic narrative methods in research, focusing particularly on addressing heteronormative perceptions of gender and sexuality. The workshop will comprise three parts: First, the organisers, Koonal Duggal and Nikolaos Papadogiannis, will present on their work with drawing and comics as a collaborative method for conducting and communicating research. We will then discuss two texts analysing the potential and challenges of using comics formats in research contexts. Finally, we will conduct a hands-on activity where students will engage themselves in drawing as a means of thinking about their own positionalities in research environments. No prior drawing experience required!

Vitae skills:

· Communication and dissemination

· Creativity

· Professional and career development

Organisers' short bios:

Nikolaos Papadogiannis is a Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Stirling, and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (FLF). His research pertains to the histories of protest, sexuality, migration, and health in the Federal Republic of Germany and Southern Europe in the 1960s-1990s. His monograph, Militant around the Clock? Left-wing Youth Politics, Leisure and Sexuality in post-dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981, was published in 2015 by Berghahn Books. His current FLF-funded project explores the impact of ideas from the Global South on HIV and AIDS campaigns in Europe since the 1980s.

Koonal Duggal is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the project Global Histories of HIV/AIDS Campaigning in India, at the University of Stirling. He was a Leverhulme postdoctoral research fellow in the project Gurus, Anti-gurus and Media in North India in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor of Gurus and Media: sound, image, machine, text and the digital (UCL Press, 2023). His research interests revolve around activism and media, politics of caste, religion, sexuality, and popular visual culture.