UCL Arts and Sciences Research Gathering

In line with the annual Graham Woodgate Lecture, UCL Arts and Sciences research gathering will take place on the 5th of May, showcasing the department’s interdisciplinary and innovative work. Join us in the Arts and Sciences Common Room for a series of sessions, workshops, and talks centred around inter- and transdisciplinary research.

Click to reserve your spot for the full day or select which session you will attend. You will be asked to indicate any access or dietary requirements when reserving your ticket(s).

Led by Dr Olwenn Martin joined by experts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, and Brunel University London, this hybrid open event is an opportunity for anyone from the university or the general public to ask anything about plastics. The recent Netflix documentary (The Plastic Detox) exploring the relationship between plastics and our health shines a light on popular interest in how public health, petrochemicals, and industry are intertwined in ways that affect us all. Whether you’re curious about microplastics in the food chain, the science behind plastic alternatives, or what meaningful policy change might look like, this is your chance to put your questions directly to researchers at the forefront of plastics science and sustainability.

Dr Olwenn Martin is Associate Professor in Health and Environment at UCL Arts and Sciences.

In a world where power operates through imperial violence, academic repression, and the denial of life-sustaining conditions, what possibilities does interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research open for being, living, and existing differently?

Join us for a Long Table - an open, participatory conversation where anyone may take a seat, and everyone is welcome to join our principled space. At a time when critical scholarship has shown its limitations to stimulate transformation by revealing concealed structures, we invite participants to reflect on the need for a renewed purpose and alternatives to making knowledges in universities and beyond. Bringing together scholars, students, and movement thinkers from multiple and diverse backgrounds, this event refuses the panel format in favour of collective inquiry. We sit together with the tense, unresolved work of making knowledge across difference and from our present conditions, from what we have lived and what we have studied.

This Long Table event is not an occasion to celebrate interdisciplinarity or transdisciplinarity, but to ask what it costs, who is included, and what it might yet make possible.

Invited guests include Mojisola Adebayo (QMUL), Kathrin Bohm (Alanus University), Marsha Bradfield (UAL), Anaïs Carlton-Parada (Loughborough University London), Angela Martinez Dy (Loughborough University London), Janiah Evans (UCL), Khaldoon Ahmed (Psychiatrist and filmmaker), Julian Ehsan, Theresa Heath (Loughborough University London), Richard Longman (Open University), Matt Malpas (UAL), Catherine Purnell (UCL), Courtney Reed (Loughborough University London) and Matthias Loidolt (University College London).

This event is part of a collaborative project among Drs Pete Barbrook-Johnson, Sadhvi Dar, and Ben White called Multiple ontologies and beyond: doing and sharing radically interdisciplinary research funded by the UCL Arts and Sciences collaborative projects awards. The Long Table is brought to you by the ReWorlding Lab (UCL Arts and Sciences and Loughborough University London’s Institute for Creative Futures) and the Gender, Sexualities and Feminisms research hotspot at Loughborough University London.

Dr Suriyah Bi will present her work on the Equality Act Review Campaign. The campaign is conducting a review of the Equality Act 2010 with the aim of amending this landmark anti-discrimination legislation. The Act protects individuals from discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership (workplace only), pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. At present, the Act does not incorporate factors such as homelessness, low socio-economic status and/or poverty, caste, or immigration status, all of which can give rise to unequal treatment in the workplace or in public places where goods and services are provided, especially when and where they intersect with already protected characteristics. Additionally, procedures for the implementation of the Act make it difficult for people with protected characteristics to use the Act to rectify cases of unlawful discrimination. Unfortunately, it is failing real people and real lives.

This session will centre intersectionality in law and highlight the interdisciplinarity of the campaign’s framework that integrates ideas from anthropology, sociology, geography, and law.

Suriyah Bi is a Lecturer (Teaching) in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcoloniality at Arts and Sciences.

Using a mix of creative methods that will include visual maps and collaging, Dr Chiara Amini will explore what it means to take a decolonising and social justice approach in our scholarship and study. Working between research inquiry and creative practice, the session will create space for a generative and joyful approach to emerge.

Chiara Amini is Associate Professor (Teaching) in Social Science and Economics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She is affiliated to Arts and Sciences where she teaches the BASc module on Migration and Health.

Register for this lecture at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-the-nexus-equity-and-justice-in-tackling-biodiversity-and-climate-tickets-1982504477259

Image credit: Starry Muscle. Dr Renata Scalco, Institute of Neurology, UCL Doctoral School, Research Images as Art Competition entry 2013-2014.

Info: Led by Dr Olwenn Martin joined by experts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, and Brunel University London, this hybrid open event is an opportunity for anyone from the university or the general public to ask anything about plastics.

Info: Join us for a Long Table - an open, participatory conversation where anyone may take a seat, and everyone is welcome to join our principled space. At a time when critical scholarship has shown its limitations to stimulate transformation by revealing concealed structures, we invite participants to reflect on the need for a renewed purpose and alternatives to making knowledges in universities and beyond. Bringing together scholars, students, and movement thinkers from multiple and diverse backgrounds, this event refuses the panel format in favour of collective inquiry. We sit together with the tense, unresolved work of making knowledge across difference and from our present conditions, from what we have lived and what we have studied.

Info: This session will centre intersectionality in law and highlight the interdisciplinarity of the campaign’s framework that integrates ideas from anthropology, sociology, geography, and law.

Info: Using a mix of creative methods that will include visual maps and collaging, Dr Chiara Amini will explore what it means to take a decolonising and social justice approach in our scholarship and study. Working between research inquiry and creative practice, the session will create space for a generative and joyful approach to emerge.

Event Venue

Arts and Sciences (BASc), Malet Place, London, United Kingdom

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