Anna Argirò (she/her), CRMEP, Kingston University London

After completing her BA and MA studies at La Sapienza University of Rome, Anna Argirò started her doctoral studies at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University. In the second year of her Ph.D., Anna was a visiting scholar at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, NY supported by Techne and the UK Turing Scheme. At Kingston University, she is also a member of the Race/Gender Matters research group. Her research interests include contemporary continental philosophy and feminist theory with a focus on the issues of birth and maternity.

Hannah Ballou, Kingston University London

Dr. Hannah Ballou is a comedian, performance artist, researcher, writer, and lecturer.
http://www.hannahballou.com

Lisa Baraitser, Birkbeck University, London

Lisa Baraitser is Professor of Psychosocial Theory in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption (Routledge) and Enduring Time (Bloomsbury) and has written widely on motherhood, ethics, temporality and care. She is the co-founder of the research centre MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics) and the journal Studies in the Maternal. She is also a psychoanalyst in practice in London.

Nicola Field (she/her), Kingston University London

Nicola Field is a is a lifelong socialist activist, writer and artist who has worked in community film, video and creative writing, and production journalism. Her PhD research focusses on contributing to a Marxist approach to social trauma, through literature and creative life-writing.

Emma Filtness (she/her), Brunel University, London

Emma Filtness is a poet and senior lecturer in creative writing at Brunel University London. Her pamphlets of collage and erasure poems are out now with Steel Incisors and Broken Sleep Books. Follow her on Twitter and Insta: @em_filtness

Rosalind Holgate Smith (she/her), Kingston University London

Rosalind Holgate Smith is a Dance Artist and Choreographer. She creates performances, immersive installations and art that investigates intimate experiences between people, place and the environment. Rosalind develops her work through practices of touch and training the senses, in which she takes influence from Contact Improvisation and somatic studies including Body Mind Centering, Authentic Movement and dancing outdoors and in water.

Anna Johnson (she/they), Kingston University London

Anna Johnson teaches and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing, both at Kingston University. She lives and works in East London. Anna’s research and creative writing practice centres around motherhood, haunting and failure, drawing on, amongst other things, the psychosocial, disability theory, illness theory, queer, and feminist theory.

https://annaotheranna.wixsite.com/mysite

Rachel Long (she/her)

Rachel Long’s debut collection, My Darling from the Lions (Picador 2020 / Tin House 2021) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, The Costa Book Award, The Rathbones Folio Prize, and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The US edition of My Darling from the Lions was a New York Times Book Review, and named one of the 100 must-read books of 2021 by TIME.

Sian Loxston (she/her), Kingston University London

Sian Loxston is a third-year PhD researcher in English Literature. Her research focus is British women’s fiction from the 1980s and 1990s, the time she grew up. Loxston looks at these texts from a new materialist perspective, focusing on women’s sexual bodies.

Crystal Maritta Sam (she/her), Kingston University London

Crystal Maritta Sam is a final year PhD researcher at Kingston University, UK. She is currently writing a thesis on the role of memory in post 9/11 Muslim Women’s Writing. Her research interests include Memory studies, Postcolonial writing and South Asian novels. She is also heavily invested in the literature and films in her mother-tongue, Malayalam.

Anna McFarlane (she/her), Leeds University

Anna McFarlane is a Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the University of Leeds, and based in Dundee, Scotland. She is the author of Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades (2021) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (2020) and Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture (2022). Her current work on traumatic pregnancy and fantastic fiction was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2017.

Emma Mitchell (she/her), Brunel University, London

Emma Mitchell is a Creative Writing doctoral researcher at Brunel University London whose work centres on the body, especially the female body, and its relationship to culture, material experience and the self. She has performed worldwide as a comedian, burlesque artist, pole dancer and trapeze artist and is best known for her critically-acclaimed one-woman show, The Naked Stand Up. Her research focusses on experimental practice & form as vehicles to express lost and marginalised female voices.

Paul Paschal (he/him), University of Roehampton and Sadler's Wells Theatre

Paul Paschal is an artist, writer and organising living in Nottingham, UK. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Roehampton and Sadler’s Wells Theatre, studying choreographic-curatorial practices to rethink institutional ambivalence. The majority of his artistic work (performances, exhibitions, curatorial projects) is undertaken in collaboration with Rohanne Udall, currently under the name Cha cha cha cha cha.

Julia Pond (she/her), Kingston University London

Julia Pond is an interdisciplinary dance artist, teacher and researcher whose fictional company and performance project BRED engages with notions of value and productivity. Her Techne-funded PhD is investigating how embodied practices can help to re-articulate the political economic notion of 'value'. She's also a co-initiator of the podcast of interdisciplinary conversations DanceOutsideDance.

https://juliapond.com

Stella Villarmea, Complutense University of Madrid/ University of Oxford

Stella Villarmea is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Complutense University of Madrid, and Associate Faculty Member in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She is a main contributor to the emergent field of the philosophy of birth. With an expertise in epistemology and feminism, her works address the philosophical relation between knowledge and emancipation. She currently leads a Programme of Excellence on the Philosophy of Birth (PHILBIRTH-2), funded by the Government of Madrid (2021-24). As a Marie S. Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford, she led the research project, ‘Controversies in Childbirth: from Epistemology to Practices (VOICEs), funded by the European Commission (2018-20). As the principal investigator of the project, ‘Philosophy of Birth: Rethinking the Origin from Medical (PHILBIRTH-1)’, funded by the Ministry of Economy in Spain, she coordinated an interdisciplinary team of philosophers, health practitioners and social scientists around childbirth and birth care (2016-19). She has been speaker of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPH) and is a Member in the Steering and Gender Committees of The International Federation of Philosophical Associations (FISP).

Hannah Voegele (she/they), Center for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton

Hannah Voegele is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Center for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics at the University of Brighton. Hannah’s current research focuses on modern relations of property and propriety, (Germany’s) colonial continuities, and feminisms’ ambiguous histories.

Charlotte Warne Thomas (she/her), Kingston University London

Charlotte Warne Thomas is an artist, lecturer, researcher and parent based in South East London. She is currently a practice-based PhD candidate in CARG at Kingston University, funded by AHRC/ Techne. Aside from her PhD research, she is passionate about making the art world more inclusive and working to overcome its structural inequalities, and has recently worked on the report Structurally F -cked with Industria (published by a-n, 2023), and her report Artists as Workers, investigating artists’ precarious working conditions was published by think tank Autonomy in 2021. She is co-founder of crit group Peer Sessions, currently partnering with Chisenhale Gallery and Artquest, to offer supportive feedback to artists outside of formal education settings.
Her work includes performance, installation, collage, AV work, and writing, and often features gold, which she exploits for its seductive and versatile materiality. Recent performances/exhibitions include: Hartslane Gallery (London); ASC Gallery (London); Stanley Picker Gallery (London); Focal Point (Southend-on-Sea); Phoenix (Brighton); Atlas House (Ipswich); Fundación Santander (Madrid, Spain); Chelsea Space (London).