The FemQuant seminar series brings together researchers from across the social sciences who explore the combination of feminist research commitments and quantitative research methods. We aim to create a collaborative and supportive space where the difficulties, tensions and complexities inherent in combining feminism and quantitative methods can be explored and discussed. Seminars are typically an hour long and allow time for discussion and welcome you to join us in the conversation!
All our seminars take place on Zoom and are free to attend but registration is required (after registering, you will be sent a Zoom link on the day of the event). Scheduled upcoming seminars will be listed below. For past seminars, including recordings where available, please see our seminars archive page.
Upcoming seminars
QuantQueer: Imagining Queered Quantitative Methodologies
Kamden Strunk
Wednesday 8 May 2024
17:00-18:00 (BST) /
18:00-19:00 (CEST) /
12:00-13:00 (EDT) / Check your time zone
Critical quantitative methodologies have rapidly advanced over the past decade. This is perhaps most notable in QuantCrit, which merged Critical Race Theory and quantitative methods. However, queer theory has been less commonly used to reimagine quantitative methodologies. This talk presents an approach to thinking about queering quantitative methodologies. QuantQueer takes up aspects of QuantCrit, and asks how queer theory might inform the data collection and analysis processes. This includes considering numbers as neither neutral nor real, considering the ways that categories (and categorization) are both products and producers of hegemony, considering fluidity and momentariness, questioning the ways that statistics predetermine representation or representability, and moving from analyses of the body/individual to analyses of systems and ideologies.
Dr. Kamden Strunk is an Associate Professor in the Research, Assessment, and Evaluation concentration in the Department of Foundations of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. He primarily teaches quantitative research methods, and has also taught in the areas of educational foundations, social justice, educational psychology, and human development. His research focuses in three broad areas: critical quantitative methodologies, intersectional queer studies in education, and critical approaches to the psychology of education.
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