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- (02 -03-2017) Women's History Month Herstory Salon
- (19-06-2016) BodyStories Conference
- (04-09-2015) Performance, Politics, Protest
- (13-06-2017) Women and Austerity Conference Saturday 13th June
- (13-09-2017) Women and the media: feminist concerns
- (06-03-2014) Preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
- (01-03-2017) Paying the price to the uttermost farthing? Women and World War
- (15-06-2017) Irish Feminist Activism and the Arts
- (15-06-2012) Women in Politics: from Quotas to Representation
- (25-02-2012) From X to A B C: 20 Years On
- (18-09-2010) Moving in from the Margins
- (09-05-2009) Irish Feminisms and the Future
- (24-05-2008) Exploring Mothers: Discourses, Representations, Practices
- (09-06-2009) Mothering in Contemporary Ireland
- (17-06-2006) Buying Sex is not a Sport
- (27-05-2006) Irish Feminist Futures Postgraduate Conference
- (21-05-2005) If I knew then what I know now
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Women's Studies at UCC

A thriving, interdisciplinary programme
The MA in Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary programme, with students gaining insights from academics across the College of Arts Celtic Studies and Social Sciences as well as from the College of Business and Law. Students develop a grounding in feminist theory and research while also examining gender and society through a multidisciplinary lens. Staff from over ten different academic departments contribute to the MA, allowing each student to develop a unique MA experience. The programme is tailored to suit each student's specific area of academic interest and educational background. Proposals are also welcome from students interested in working with a supervisor to develop a PhD project in the broad area of Women’s Studies.
The UCC campus is a safe, welcoming one. UCC has obtained an Athena Swan Bronze Award for Gender Equality, recognizing its effort to promote gender equality in education. UCC has been named University of Sanctuary in 2018, and recently opened a new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion unit. The campus hosts very active students' societies, including the UCC Feminist Society and the UCC LGBT Society. UCC also hosts the Casilac (Centre for Advanced Studies in Languagues and Culture) Research Cluster on Violence, Conflict and Gender, and the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21), which includes a Family, Gender and Sexualities research cluster.
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