Judit Takács
Judit Takács is a Research Professor at the Institute of Sociology of the Centre for Social Sciences (CSS) – Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence. Her main research interests cover family practices, childlessness, caring masculinities, the social history of homosexuality, homophobia and genderphobia. She also has extensive research experience in HIV/AIDS prevention, community engagement […]
Madeleine Pape
Madeleine Pape is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sports Science, University of Lausanne. From 2023-2026, she will be an Ambizione scholar of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Madeleine is also an inclusion specialist for the International Olympic Committee. She has contributed her double position as an elite athlete (competing at the top international […]
Maryna Shevtsova
Maryna Shevtsova is a Ukrainian political scientist and LGBT rights activist with an interdisciplinary background in International Economic Relations, Gender Studies, Psychology, and Political Science. She is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and a Senior FWO Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium. After finishing her PhD dissertation on LGBT movements in Turkey […]
Massimo Prearo
Massimo Prearo is a researcher in political science, scientific coordinator of the Research Center PoliTeSse – Politics and Theories of Sexuality at the University of Verona in Italy and co-chair of the Standing group Gender and Politics of the Italian Political Science Association. With a French dissertation (EHESS), he is better known in the Roman […]
Patrizia Zanoni
Patrizia Zanoni is Professor at Hasselt University (Belgium) and Chair in Organization Studies at the Utrecht University School of Governance (the Netherlands). One of the driving forces in critical management studies, she researches how ‘diversity’ – markers of difference including among other gender, ‘race’, disability and their intersections – is used as a principle of […]
Tatev Hovhannisyan
Tatev Hovhannisyan is a bright and bold Armenian feminist investigative journalist, currently working as the Europe and Eurasia editor of the Tracking the Backlash project of openDemocracy. She oversees the production of ambitious, cross-border investigative journalism and powerful storytelling that challenges power and inspires change. Her particular interest is tracking attacks on universal human rights […]
Toni Haastrup
An award-winning teacher, her research interests are varied and broadly explore the nature of global power hierarchies particularly between and within the so-called Global North and South in knowledge and practice. Theoretically, her research draws on decolonial thinking, ontological security and critical feminisms, and is inspired by collaboration with other scholars. Recent research has examined […]
Zarina Ahmad
Zarina Ahmad is a feminist climate change and race equality activist, based in Scotland & England. She has worked with a range of organisations in the UK. For over ten years, Zarina has worked to involve minority ethnic women in knowledge building and policy influencing around climate change agendas in Scotland and England, challenging assumptions […]
Sandrine Bergès
Sandrine Bergès is a French philosopher who has worked for many years at the University of Bilkent in Turkey (http://www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr/index.php/sandrine-berges/ ) where she teaches feminist philosophy. That the circumstances for humanist/atheist philosophers to do work in Turkey become increasingly difficult needs no further explanation. She does both history of philosophy, and contemporary political philosophy, and […]
Maya De Leo
Maya De Leo (she/they) is nominated for her impressive work as both an academic and queer activist. Maya De Leo obtained her PhD in History at the University of Pisa with a multiple award winning thesis on the representations of homosexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research interests focus on the cultural history […]