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Based at @UCLRDR, the centre aims to develop awareness of, and responsiveness to, gender equality in research and teaching.

London, England
Joined February 2018
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Want to help us reach as large an audience as possible? We now have a Facebook post you can like and share: facebook.com/share/18VBtSuKB… Help us take a stand for our care and domestic workers 👊👊👊
Tag friends and organisations you know of below! Survey open til end of Jan Link to survey: tinyurl.com/fbuktap
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🌋 Gender norms and stereotypes, socially and culturally structured gender roles, and power relations affect our understanding of a disaster scenario. ⚖️ Disasters must be seen in relation to broader, structural inequalities.
Our article Gendering Disasters is now available on Oxford bibliographies Published by @OxUniPress oxfordbibliographies.com/dis…
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🌈 The resources address a range of social identities & expand the traditional binary approach to examining “gender” in disaster scenarios. 🌏 This bibliography also aims to promote references that may be less often cited or less visible, especially from the Global South.
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Our article Gendering Disasters is now available on Oxford bibliographies Published by @OxUniPress oxfordbibliographies.com/dis…
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Tag friends and organisations you know of below! Survey open til end of Jan Link to survey: tinyurl.com/fbuktap
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UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
Do you or your organisation have links to people who do work that involves 🧹cleaning, 🍳 cooking, 👚 doing laundry, and/or 🤱🛌👩‍🦼 caring for an elderly person, a child, or a dependent person? More info below 👇
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Do you or your organisation have links to people who do work that involves 🧹cleaning, 🍳 cooking, 👚 doing laundry, and/or 🤱🛌👩‍🦼 caring for an elderly person, a child, or a dependent person? More info below 👇
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If you have networks with whom you can share the survey we have the following template as a suggestion: Did your work involve to clean, cook; or care for someone? Last month or during covid? In a home or institution? Help research on work & health: tinyurl.com/uktap
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UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
"Populations deemed ‘vulnerable’ are much more resourceful than the elite can see, they don’t need ‘development’ programmes; they need to be heard and given the chance to coordinate their own projects. Those women are the best, popular educators I have ever seen."
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"Populations deemed ‘vulnerable’ are much more resourceful than the elite can see, they don’t need ‘development’ programmes; they need to be heard and given the chance to coordinate their own projects. Those women are the best, popular educators I have ever seen."
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🚨EVENT 🚨 A Gender Perspective in Disaster Risk Management in Latin America and the Caribbean 🕖19:00 UK time
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‼️RESOURCE‼️ For those studying exploitation at work: Framework of exploitation developed by @SabahBoufkhed et. al. (2022) New insights from the Who cares? project, exploring care workers’ experiences of exploitation during & post COVID Collab w/ @HCRInstitute 🧵thread👇 1/5
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These dimensions impact in various ways how workers perceive their general health, which is used as a final point of analysis. This framework offers a new way to gather insights on the relationship between occupational exploitation and worker’s health. 4/5
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