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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
WeAVE is a working group that provides a space for the ‘future of women’s studies’ by creating a forum for dialogue, exchange, and interaction among gender studies students, postgraduate students, PhDs, post-doc researchers, and junior teachers. On a European level, gender studies students and junior scholars already participate in existing networks (such as CLIOHNET, or Eurodoc) but do not possess their own. The student perspective is thus relatively invisible in the larger field of gender research. WeAVE’s aim is to address this deficiency.
WeAVE’s main objective is to network the existing gender studies networks, as well as encouraging new networks to be formed in order to create an ever expanding and transforming tapestry of European feminist futures. WeAVE is interested in publishing, communication, and maintaining a platform for the exchange of ideas. It promotes new perspectives in the fields of gender theory, gender methodology, and ‘feminist academic careers’.
WeAVE expands the scope of the ATHENA2 Student Forum by building a network of gender studies scholars and students that goes beyond the reach of ATHENA. It aims to initiate connections across diverse regions of Europe.
The name WeAVE incorporates two thematic lines which define our network organisation. The image of weaving refers to the connectivity and interaction which WeAVE aims to create. Similarly, the WAVE capitalised in the title points towards a new third wave feminist generation, the future of European gender studies.
Special issue GJSS
The working group published a special issue of Graduate Journal of Social Science in December 2007 (volume 4, issue2). The issue was co-edited by Mia Liinason, managing editor of the GJSS and member of WeAVE, and Iris van der Tuin, co-ordinator of WeAVE and board member of GJSS. You can access the special issue here.
The work in this group is done in Output Area II: Research on education. Developing tools for quality assessment and evaluation |
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