Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary subject taught in the schools of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies and Humanities at Sussex University. It combines the expertise of lecturers and researchers from both schools, to provide fresh and innovative content and a variety of approaches to teaching and learning.
**STOP PRESS** - the 100-strong community of doctoral students working on gender have started their own seminar series, beginning in Spring term 2010, and are currently looking for presenters - see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/gender/ngender for more details.
Images courtesy of Bekah Richards (left) and Andrzej Pobiedzinski (right)
At undergraduate level, a coherent array of Gender Studies modules offers a grounding in the subject through a variety of different themes.
At postgraduate level, students pursue specialised routes of scholarship in an institution that has an excellent reputation for graduate work in Gender Studies nationally and internationally. There are taught and research Masters pathways, and opportunities to pursue doctoral study on gender in a variety of different disciplines. Across the university, there are currently almost 100 doctoral students working on gender-related topics.
A large and committed group of faculty engage in Gender teaching and research at Sussex. Many are leaders in their fields or up-and-coming scholars, and all are enthusiastic about welcoming students to this vibrant academic community. The Centre also enjoys good links with the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies and the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research.
As well as being interesting, studying Gender opens up good employment opportunities. Gender Studies graduates go into a variety of professions within fields such as the media, policy, non-governmental organisations, teaching, the civil service, the arts and trade unions.
For more details about Gender modules and the taught MA in Gender Studies, contact Director Alison Phipps at a.e.phipps@sussex.ac.uk. For more details about DPhil (PhD) study in Gender, contact Professor Sally Munt at s.r.munt@sussex.ac.uk.