BNU to launch 'A Woman's Labour' interdisciplinary collective at The Art Workers’ Guild in London

Buckinghamshire New University (BNU) invites you to attend the official launch of A Woman’s Labour: an interdisciplinary collective, a special research and knowledge exchange project sponsored by one of the University’s Research and Impact Centres, Centre of Excellence in Health Inequalities.   

This special launch event will take place at 6pm on Wednesday 24 September at The Art Workers’ Guild in London and will explore interdisciplinary perspectives of labour as a connective term against inequality. The moment will mark the birth of a new space uniting researchers, practitioners, and experts by experience in care-informed reflective action.

Led by BNU Associate Professor Dr Liana Psarologaki - co-founder of the project - the event will welcome world-renowned theorist Professor Lilie Chouliaraki to deliver a keynote on gendered victimhood, followed by a roundtable with founding members of the project, Dr Aikaterini Argyrou, Professor Amy Bonsall, and Professor Adetoro Adegoke, Associate Dean (Research and Knowledge Exchange) at BNU and Director of the Centre.

During the roundtable, co-founders will engage in thought-provoking discussions around labour as a contested and connective, gendered term, and provide attendees an opportunity to learn more about the collective and its special collection in SAGE Journal Women’s Health.

Towards the end of the event guests can contribute to a Q&A session, followed by a wine reception to close.

Dr Liana Psarologaki describes the project as an “interdisciplinary collective driven by curiosity, inclusivity, and a hopeful pursuit of gendered labour equity”, and goes on to say that:

“A Woman’s Labor is a very special project. It comes from the heart, from the lungs, and from the gut. It whispers a hopeful message for more equitable futures and murmurs the conflicts the term labour carries together with effort, fatigue, and struggle. It is a call for value shift and change of attitude, a space in between professions, disciplines, sectors, and territories. I feel in great company with esteemed colleagues from academia and practice, leading such an important and connective initiative”. 

The event is hybrid, offering attendees to participate either online or in person.

If you would like to attend in person, please register your attendance here, to attend online via Teams, please register your attendance here.

Learn more about the Centre of Excellence in Health Inequalities here.

Learn more about the collective here.