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October is #BlackHistoryMonth 🖤💜 We asked our Committee to share books that inspire them to keep learning about Black history & reflecting on how we can amplify Black voices, challenge inequities & dismantle barriers. Here are their recommendations- Let us know what’s on your reading list ⬇️
Black History month book recs- Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston In The Ditch by Buchi Emecheta Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Long Song by Andrea Levy Black History Month book recs Hidden histories: Black in Psychology by Parise Carmichael-Murphy and Dr Adam Danquah Mental Health and Otherness: Intersections between Gender, Race, Class and Age by Ilana Mountian The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde. Black History Month book recs Integrating Multiculturalism and Intersectionality Into the Psychology Curriculum: Strategies for Instructors by Jasmine A Mena and Kathryn Quina Towards an Aesthetics of the Epistemologies of the South: Manifesto in Twenty-Two Theses by Boaventura de Sousa Santos Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex by Incite! Women, Gender Non-Conforming, and Trans People of Color Against Violence.
October 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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🔎Did you get your copy of our September newsletter?
📥 It's packed with updates on events & opportunities, plus a message from our new co-chair! Check your inbox to read the full issue.

Not receiving our newsletters? Help is at hand! ⬇️
The cover of the POWES newsletter for September 2025, with a message from the new section co-chair, Dr Katherine Hubbard.
September 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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SAVE THE DATE! Online Connection Events. Masculinities in focus: Opportunities and challenges for change. The sessions will be for two hours and involve two to three speakers whose research relates to contemporary issues and debates within masculinity studies (broadly defined) from various perspectives, including critical, health, clinical, social cultural and cross-cultural psychology. Contributors will have existing or emerging research in the following areas: *Support for men and boys as victims of sexual, physical and other forms of violence *Stability and change in notions of 'acceptable' masculinity * The role of men and boys as advocates for gender equality Date: 19 November 2025 Time: 2-4pm (TBC) Location: Online Expressions of interest should be sent to POWES.mns.bps.org.uk
September 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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📢 Calling individuals with expertise & experience in feminist research to join our pool of reviewers & judges for the 2026 POWES Awards!

More information on what reviewing/judging entails: lnkd.in/egQ98tU5

To get involved, please fill in this form: lnkd.in/emNbTgxs

🙌 Help us spread the word!
Interested in reviewing or judging the POWES 2026 Awards? *POWES Professor Marcia Worrell Mentoring Award *POWES and Feminism & Psychology Postgraduate Award * POWES Spotlight Undergraduate Award * POWES Gender Inequalities Undergraduate Award #BPSPOWES
September 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Last month at #POWES2025, we had the joy of presenting the POWES Prof. Marcia Worrell Mentoring Award to Prof. Lisa Lazard ✨👏

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Professor Lisa Lazard receives the Professor Marcia Worrell Mentoring Award at #POWES 2025
July 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Starting the week thinking about Dr. Bipasha Ahmed’s keynote at #POWES2025 on how white feminism and the misappropriation of intersectionality shape power dynamics within the UK’s Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) sector. 🧵
Dr Bipasha Ahmed's #POWES2025 keynote on 'White Feminism and the Misappropriation of Intersectionality: Power Dynamics in the UK's Violence Against Women and Girls Sector'
July 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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#POWES2025 folks, you may have received an email this week asking for ✨your feedback✨ on the conference. Positive feedback lets us know what we should keep doing and constructive feedback helps us improve your conference experience. So regardless, we’d love to hear from you 💜💛
July 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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✨Quick shout out to all #POWES2025 conference presenters✨

If you’re thinking about developing your presentation into a publication, consider submitting to PoWER. PoWER is a great home for feminist research and accepts submissions on a rolling basis.

More info: explore.bps.org.uk/content/bpsp...
July 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Finally, Flora Tietgen presented "Exploring psychological violence and (non) support-seeking: immigrant women's experiences of intimate partner violence in Iceland" #POWES2025
Flora Tietgen presents work on immigrant women's experiences of intimate partner violence in Iceland.
July 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Rylee Spooner followed up with a scoping review of risk and protective factors of LGBTQ+ identity abuse in romantic relationships.
Rylee Spooner presents work on LGBTQ+ identity abuse in romantic relationships.
July 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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First up, Siouxsie Bytheway presented '"We don't get to have break-up stories" : Repertoires of celebration and oppression that obscure intimate partner violence on queer relationships from view'.
Siouxsie Bytheway presenting on intimate partner violence in queer relationships at #POWES2025
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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🎉👏 Congrats to Dr Sadiya Osman for winning the POWES & Feminism & Psychology Postgrad Award at #powes2025! Her research on Black Muslim women's HE journeys stood out for its originality & relevance. We look forward to seeing this work out in the world! 🙌🏼🔥
Dr Sadiya Osman giving her prize-winning paper 'Visible yet invisible: The educational journeys of Black Muslim women students in UK Higher Education' at #POWES2025
July 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Massive thanks to everyone who attended and presented at #POWES2025 last week 💜💛 We’re still buzzing with energy from all the powerful conversations, connections, and feminist love! ✨ More photos from the conference coming soon - stay tuned!
June 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Just settling in for Bipasha Ahmed's keynote on 'White feminism & the misappropriation of intersectionality: power dynamics in the UK's Violence Against Women & Girls sector' #POWES2025
Bipasha Ahmed's keynote on White feminism and the misappropriation of intersectionality in the UK's Violence Against Women and Girls sector.
June 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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McKinlay quotes Judith Herman on the healing power of group solidarity as as an antidote to traumatic experience. Groups create a sense of belonging and restore humanity. #POWES2025
"The solidarity of a group provides the strongest protection against terror and despair, the strongest antidote to traumatic experience. Trauma isolates: the group re-creates a sense of belonging... Trauma dehumanises...the group restores her humanity'. Judith Herman, p. 214
June 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Next up in our session on gender-based violence, Alison McKinlay presents 'Creative arts-based groups for women subjected to gender-based violence and abuse : a scoping review'. #POWES2025
Alison McKinlay presents a scoping review of creative arts groups for women subjected to gender-based violence and abuse
June 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Catherine Starr kicks off out first parallel session on gender-based violence with ' "The 50 Shades Defence" : Media representations of sexual agency and victim blaming in the Grace Millane case' #POWES2025
Catherine Starr presents statistics on femicide
June 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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We’ve arrived at Milton Hill House and can’t wait to welcome you to #POWES2025 tomorrow!
June 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Still a couple more days to get your abstracts in for this year's conference- we've extended the deadline to May 9th. Go go go! 🏃‍♀️

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We can't wait to read your submissions 😄

Follow the link below:
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Call for abstracts! Milton Hill, Oxfordshire, OX13 6AF. 23-24th June 2025 The Fabric of Freedom. Mirroring the 2025 World Pride theme, we invite submissions that speak to creativity and innovation. Fabric can be thought of as materiality or metaphorical. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025. Resisting violences. Submissions may explore symbolic violences, war, domestic violence, bullying, epistemic violence, and other areas. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025. Accelerating Activism. Submissions may explore creating inclusive futures, digital activism, countering atomization, challenging narratives, and creating change. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025.
May 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Great news! We've extended our call for abstracts to May 9th, so you've still time to submit one!

Swipe ↔️ to see the conference themes!

We can't wait to read your submissions 😄

Follow the link below:
www.bps.org.uk/event/psycho...
Call for abstracts! Milton Hill, Oxfordshire, OX13 6AF. 23-24th June 2025 The Fabric of Freedom. Mirroring the 2025 World Pride theme, we invite submissions that speak to creativity and innovation. Fabric can be thought of as materiality or metaphorical. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025. Resisting violences. Submissions may explore symbolic violences, war, domestic violence, bullying, epistemic violence, and other areas. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025. Accelerating Activism. Submissions may explore creating inclusive futures, digital activism, countering atomization, challenging narratives, and creating change. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025.
May 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Great news! We've extended our call for abstracts to May 9th, so you've still time to submit one!

Swipe ↔️ to see the conference themes!

We can't wait to read your submissions 😄

Follow the link below:
www.bps.org.uk/event/psycho...
Call for abstracts! Milton Hill, Oxfordshire, OX13 6AF. 23-24th June 2025 The Fabric of Freedom. Mirroring the 2025 World Pride theme, we invite submissions that speak to creativity and innovation. Fabric can be thought of as materiality or metaphorical. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025. Resisting violences. Submissions may explore symbolic violences, war, domestic violence, bullying, epistemic violence, and other areas. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025. Accelerating Activism. Submissions may explore creating inclusive futures, digital activism, countering atomization, challenging narratives, and creating change. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025.
May 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Great news! We've extended our call for abstracts to May 9th, so you've still time to submit one!

Swipe ↔️ to see the conference themes!

We can't wait to read your submissions 😄

Follow the link below:
www.bps.org.uk/event/psycho...
Call for abstracts! Milton Hill, Oxfordshire, OX13 6AF. 23-24th June 2025 The Fabric of Freedom. Mirroring the 2025 World Pride theme, we invite submissions that speak to creativity and innovation. Fabric can be thought of as materiality or metaphorical. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025. Resisting violences. Submissions may explore symbolic violences, war, domestic violence, bullying, epistemic violence, and other areas. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025. Accelerating Activism. Submissions may explore creating inclusive futures, digital activism, countering atomization, challenging narratives, and creating change. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025.
May 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Last call for abstracts for this years' POWES conference- deadline is this Friday 18th April!

Swipe ↔️ to see the conference themes!

We can't wait to read your submissions 😄

Follow the link below:
www.bps.org.uk/event/psycho...
Call for abstracts! Milton Hill, Oxfordshire, OX13 6AF. 23-24th June 2025 The Fabric of Freedom. Mirroring the 2025 World Pride theme, we invite submissions that speak to creativity and innovation. Fabric can be thought of as materiality or metaphorical. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025. Resisting violences. Submissions may explore symbolic violences, war, domestic violence, bullying, epistemic violence, and other areas. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025. Accelerating Activism. Submissions may explore creating inclusive futures, digital activism, countering atomization, challenging narratives, and creating change. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025.
April 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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⌛ Just one week to go until the deadline to submit your abstract for this years conference!

Swipe ↔️ to see the conference themes!

We can't wait to read your submissions 😄

Follow the link below:
www.bps.org.uk/event/psycho...
Call for abstracts! Milton Hill, Oxfordshire, OX13 6AF. 23-24th June 2025 The Fabric of Freedom. Mirroring the 2025 World Pride theme, we invite submissions that speak to creativity and innovation. Fabric can be thought of as materiality or metaphorical. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025. Resisting violences. Submissions may explore symbolic violences, war, domestic violence, bullying, epistemic violence, and other areas. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025. Accelerating Activism. Submissions may explore creating inclusive futures, digital activism, countering atomization, challenging narratives, and creating change. 23rd and 24th June POWES Conference 2025.
April 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED to 14 April!

⏰ There's still time to submit your work for #POWES2025 student prizes!

🎓 Spotlight on Activism Undergraduate Award
📜 Undergraduate Gender Inequalities Award
📚 POWES and Feminism and Psychology Postgraduate Award

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POWES prizes 2025 DEADLINE EXTENDED- now 14 April. Open to all current students (2024-5 and those who have submitted their dissertation within the last 3 academic years (2021-2024). *POWES Spotlight on Activism Undergraduate Award *POWES Undergraduate Gender Inequalities Award *POWES and Feminism and Psychology Postgraduate Award. Winners receive *a funded place to present their work at the POWES conference (23024th June 2025) *a one- year journal subscription *publication oppportunity in POWER *An award certificate Enter at tinyurl.com/powes2025awards
April 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM