CHASE Research Networks Events

CHASE Research Networks Directory

Find CHASE networks that are related to your research interests and needs. With a wide range of topics and activities, CHASE Research Networks are organised under three categories: methodological approaches or practices, sites of activism, and researcher well-being.

If you have any questions or you want to start a network, reach out to CHASE’s researcher networks officer at networks@chase.ac.uk. If you’d like to join a network, you can contact the network directly or fill out this form here.

Archived networks that are no longer active can be found here.

Interdisciplinary Research Methods Networks

Digital Studies Collective (DiSCo)

The Digital Studies Collective (DiSCo) detects a fading distinction between the offline and online worlds. We are not dystopian about humanity’s technological destiny, nor do we envisage a utopic future. Rather, we believe it is of critical importance to develop and deploy innovative research processes to grapple with our new hybrid reality. 

We welcome students from all stages of their PhD and across any field or period, so long as they are keen to incorporate digital methodologies, frameworks and tools into their research.

If you are interested in joining the Digital Studies Collective please email editors@discojournal.com with your name, institution, thesis title and a few words on what you hope to get out of the Cohort.

Website: www.discojournal.com
Twitter: @CHASE_DiSCo
Instagram: @discojournal

The Creative Writers Network

The Creative Writers Network arose from discussions amongst Creative Practice PGR's to provide a space to collaborate, support and learn from each other. The network is open to all researchers with an interest in creative expression. It will provide a forum for researchers to suggest and organise projects and events between and beyond CHASE-affiliated institutions. A platform to organize events and workshops, and training for everyone.

Please email chase.creative.network@gmail.com if you’re interested in joining.

Call for Committee Members

Emily Berry has recently taken over the network from Martin Monroe. Emily is looking for one or a few other PGRs to co-lead this CHASE Network. Anyone interested can contact chase.creative.network@gmail.com. All PGRs are welcome to join the CHASE Creative Writers Network, whether they are interested in creative writing as a research topic or passion project.

Feminist and Queer Archives Research Network

The Feminist and Queer Archives network was founded by Hatty Nestor and Lily Evans-Hill in 2019. We established the network with the view to connect researchers using innovative methodologies informed by feminist and queer knowledges and politics. As part of the activities of the network, we organised and undertook archival training, oral history training and held reading and discussion groups. In 2021, we wrote a reading list inspired by our collaborations:

https://sites.gold.ac.uk/animatingarchives/a-queer-feminist-archive-reader/

We are looking for CHASE researchers to take over the network now that we are approaching submission. There is budget left for training and study trips, and the network is open to adapting to the particulars of the new members of the network. Please let me know if you would like to lead the network by emailing: networks@chase.ac.uk.

SAVAnT (Scholars of American Visual Arts and Text)

SAVAnT is the CHASE doctoral school in American art and visual culture, exploring how Art History intersects with American Studies and other relevant disciplines. SAVAnT seeks to map the lines that lie across and between Art History, Visual Culture, and American Studies in all historical periods, and across the Americas broadly defined.

The school aims to support research and dialogue both between these fields and between CHASE institutions. If your PhD includes aspects of American visual material, SAVAnT warmly invites your participation.

CHASE Medieval and Early Modern Network

The Medieval and Early Modern Research Network offers a space for interdisciplinary collaboration and development amongst the cohort for those working with materials from this period. Providing a relaxed community for researchers to share their work-in-progress and develop their knowledge and presentation skills in a supportive environment, the network welcomes those with historical, art historical, literary, political, and economic focuses to share their ideas and perspectives. Beginning with informal monthly discussion groups, the network has ambitious plans to organise specialist skills training, exhibition visits and symposiums to facilitate knowledge exchange, networking, and professional development opportunities.

Please send an email to CHASEmemrn@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list.

Broadly Conceived

Broadly Conceived is an interdisciplinary network of PhD and early career researchers who are interested in reproduction-related topics including (in)fertility, pregnancy, birth and more. We meet regularly online and organise one-off in-person events such as writing retreats and conferences.

The team consists of Jemma Walton, Kate Errington and Genevieve Smart (all Birkbeck), and Rachel Arkell (Kent).

To read more about us and our scheduled events please see our website. You can stay up to date with our activities by signing up to our mailing list or following us on X @BConceived. 

Our email is broadlyconceived@gmail.com

CHASE Medical Humanities Network

The Medical Humanities Network aims to bring researchers working within the disparate field of medical humanities together, with the purpose of facilitating a knowledge exchange between members. With an interdisciplinary focus, the network will take the form of reading groups, exhibition visits, and informal discussion.

Please email chasemedhums@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list.

Twitter: @CHASEMedHums

Find out more about the CHASE Medical Humanities Network, including past events, here.

ECHOES (Exploring Collective Histories and Ongoing ExperienceS)

The ECHOES Network explores multidisciplinary representations of pasts operating in varying ‘presents’. In partnership with my co-founder, Louise Rodwell (also at the University of Essex), we hope to establish a network that will bring together researchers interested in how legacies of the past manifest in archives, cultural memory, and social practice.

Spanning the humanities, arts, and social sciences, we aim to support research and dialogue across these fields with monthly reading groups, and also provide opportunities to present works-in-progress in a friendly environment.

We aim to have various in-person meetings, including writing retreats, exhibition visits, and conferences, and to also establish a digital presence to improve accessibility for non-CHASE members who wish to join our discussion groups.

Email: echoesnetwork@outlook.com

Activism-Oriented Networks

CHASE Feminist Network

The CHASE Feminist Network was borne of discussions wishing to provide spaces of resistance in what continues to be a patriarchal world and broader education sector, with ongoing and intersectional discrimination happening at all levels.

For more information, please contact: chasefeminist@gmail.com

Twitter: @ChaseFeminist
Website: www.chasefeministnetwork.com

CHASE Climate Justice Network

The CHASE Climate Justice Network emerged in Summer 2019 to centre Climate Justice and the climate emergency for arts and humanities researchers - to help us reflect, (take) care and work out what we can do in our different contexts. We understand Climate Justice as cutting across disciplines and methodologies. It intersects with multiple forms of activism including but not limited to feminism, anti-racist struggle, indigenous rights and the fight towards socio-economic equality at all levels. Since this crisis is unprecedented in human history, this network will address the urgent need to develop a language with and a context in which to speak about it.

If you would like to get involved, you can:

• Join our mailing list at groups.io

• Email us: chaseclimatejustice@protonmail.com

• Visit the CHASE Climate Justice Network website

• Follow us on Twitter at @chase_climate

Call for Committee Members

The Climate Justice Network has been a rich forum of exchange for many of those involved. Unfortunately, the core members have either completed or are nearing the completion of their PhDs. For this reason, there are no plans to continue the network's activities beyond the current academic year. However, if there are current PGR students interested in climate and environmental justice issues who have ideas and enthusiasm to take the network forward, we would be delighted to support with administrative and practical experiences. Please get in touch!

Contact: Naomi: nhenn001@gold.ac.uk, or email chaseclimatejustice@protonmail.com

Student Support and Advocacy Networks

CHASE Alumni Network

CHASE KEH is currently developing a CHASE Alumni Network. Joining the network will allow former CHASE PhD researchers to connect with other scholars and professionals, maintain their relationships with their peers, and keep up to date with CHASE news and funding opportunities.

Members of the network will also provide support, advice, and mentoring for CHASE researchers wishing to undertake collaborative, knowledge exchange projects with non-higher education organisations, and will have the opportunity to act as supervisors for CHASE projects.

Former CHASE researchers who are interested in joining the alumni network can do so through the enquiry form on the CHASE knowledge exchange hub website: https://www.chasekeh.co.uk/for/alumni

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