Based at @UCLRDR, the centre aims to develop awareness of, and responsiveness to, gender equality in research and teaching.
London, England
Joined February 2018
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UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
Do you or your organisation have links to people who do work that involves 🧹cleaning, 🍳 cooking, 👚 doing laundry, and/or 🤱🛌👩🦼 caring for an elderly person, a child, or a dependent person?
More info below 👇
ALT text reads: Do you or your organisation have links to people who do work that involves cleaning, cooking, doing laundry, and/or caring for an elderly person, a child, or a dependent person? We are looking to survey care and domestic workers, in order to compare the working conditions and health of these workers during the pandemic and during last month to see how these may have changed and we need your help to reach them!
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
"Populations deemed ‘vulnerable’ are much more resourceful than the elite can see, they don’t need ‘development’ programmes; they need to be heard and given the chance to coordinate their own projects. Those women are the best, popular educators I have ever seen."
"Dr Louisa Acciari Co-Launches Groundbreaking ‘Citizen Domestic Work’ Programme in Brazil" linkedin.com/pulse/dr-louisa…
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
I presented my operational definition of #labourexploitation (tinyurl.com/yc4tp6bm) & Acciari & I's work on care workers'conditions & health @UCL_GD panel.
The brilliant Bella Ruiz & @Isabel_A_Cortes @UVWunion & @HCHLopez @IWGBunion exemplified workers'conditions & struggles.
Thank you to everyone who came along to our 🥳 6th birthday 🥳 event exploring care and domestic work in the pandemic and thank you to our amazing guest speakers from @UVWunion & @IWGBunion: Isobel, Bella and Henry!
A great turn out and a great discussion!
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
You can tell by the HUGE GRIN that I am proud to rep my union @UVWunion and speak alongside Bella, the amazing care worker, who with her colleague’s took strike action in the harshest of conditions during a global pandemic.
Thank you to everyone who came along to our 🥳 6th birthday 🥳 event exploring care and domestic work in the pandemic and thank you to our amazing guest speakers from @UVWunion & @IWGBunion: Isobel, Bella and Henry!
A great turn out and a great discussion!
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
THIS FRIDAY! Join us for a panel discussion on "Essential yet exploited? Invisibilised frontline workers during the pandemic."
Grab your free ticket here: bit.ly/48xw4BJ
The event is followed by a networking reception & a poster exhibition by our BSc students. @UCL_GD
Join us on World Essential Workers' Day to examine the working conditions of low-paid care workers during and post-pandemic.
Essential yet exploited? Invisibilised frontline workers during the pandemic.
🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏰ 5:30 pm–7:00 pm GMT.
Sign up: bit.ly/48xw4BJ
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
We are making this event hybrid!
You can join us even if you are not in London. Register through the link, and you will be sent login details before the event👇
@FocusOnLabour @DHSCgovuk @CSI_KCL @UKDirectorLME @UK_Glaa @UVWunion @IWGBunion @unitetheunion @The_TUC @CommonsHealth
Interested in #careworkers, invisibilised frontline workers & pandemics?
On Essential Workers'Day (15Mar), join us to discuss their labour conditions & health in rel. to COVID19 pandemic, & #labourexploitation
@UCLIRDR @UCL_GD w/ @HCRInstitute @UVWunion
👉tinyurl.com/4n8chs64
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
Interested in #careworkers, invisibilised frontline workers & pandemics?
On Essential Workers'Day (15Mar), join us to discuss their labour conditions & health in rel. to COVID19 pandemic, & #labourexploitation
@UCLIRDR @UCL_GD w/ @HCRInstitute @UVWunion
👉tinyurl.com/4n8chs64
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
"Working with @ucl & @grripp Zack’s report uses global case studies to emphasize exactly why unique vulnerabilities of female, LGBTQIA+ & low paid needs deliberate consideration in climate adaptation planning."
Our call for a Citizens Assembly. 👇🏽
london.gov.uk/greens-call-ci…
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
🚨NEW from @GRRIPP_SA 🚨
This beautifully raw video explores Hijra identity, an indigenous term from Bangladesh that reflects a wide range of sexual diversity, #transgender & gender-diverse identities.
Learn about #resilience & hear their stories👇
youtu.be/fNNAspghugc?si=15Ec…
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
My colleague @ZackPolanski commissioned a great report last year on how and why to incorporate intersectional gender diversity in both the analysis of climate change impacts, and adaptation plans, published with @grripp & @ucl
👇
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UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
📣 NEW RESOURCE 📣
🔎 Need help with communications? Dissemination? Getting your work seen? Reaching larger audiences?
Check out the GRRIPP Communications and Dissemination Toolkit
👉grripp.net/toolkit
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UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
🚨New video🚨: Sustainable solutions in daily life in India - told by the women themselves
Link below 👇
ALT Angadi, Bihar A women in a sari sits by a sewing machine She sews together old clothes to repurpose them as mats and sheets. Several in the community get these sheets made from her, adding to her earnings.
Thrilled to share @SEWABharat's impactful project, 'The Many Faces of #SustainableEmployment.'
The documentary captures 05 dimensions of grassroots sustainability, showcasing women's resilience & creativity.
Watch on: youtu.be/3zJbcWDBbVQ?feature…
@grripp youtu.be/JpKsykRvjrs?feature…
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
We want to promote a a gender-responsive approach to climate policy and here's one way we're doing it:
💚 Gender & Intersectionality Responsive Climate Adaptation Plan For London 💚
Read our collaborative report with @ZackPolanski and @TheGreenParty (link below)
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UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
📣 *Please share* Call for funders and support 📣 Family Visions is a rural community–based organisation operating in Manicaland province, Zimbabwe. They focus on gender and socially-inclusive climate-compatible development.
Read about their work below👇
grripp.net/post/family-visio…
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
We are delighted to share the report :
💚A Gender & Intersectionality Responsive Climate Adaptation Plan For London💚
To be presented to @MayorofLondon as part of the commissioned London Climate Resilience Review
Thank you Zack & team for this collaboration!
My new report makes it clear: the gender of our decisionmakers matters.
Thanks to the brilliant researchers @ucl & @grripp for their incredible work.
I hope decision makers will recognize urgency of this inclusion work.
Read the full report here ⬇️
london.gov.uk/sites/default/…
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
3rd Dec marked #InternationalDisabilityDay
"Participation of persons with disabilities in decision-making processes encourages the planning of practical strategies, thus enabling them to exercise fundamental rights & better cope with the effects of disaster." - Muna Sharma 🧵1/4
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[Black font] Title: International Disability Day
Photo in round frame [left]: Muna Sharma talks emphatically in front of a poster presentation
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UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
Our flagship project @grripp have a great reading prompt series on a range of topics relevant to gender and disaster 👇
This week's GRRIPP Reading prompt - as voted for by you - is on the the theme of 🌐#Resilience🌐 :
🧵Understanding resilience and disasters. Where do we begin? 1/9
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
🚀@grripp has launched a game-changing guide on gender and sexual minorities in disaster risk. Read more about it and #InclusiveDRR from their authors @DRRDynamics @OliviaWalms in our latest blog: tinyurl.com/grripp-rg
UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster retweeted
Identity, process, challenges & triumphs - filmmaker Estiak Prottoy reflects on his experience working on the @grripp South Asia digital storytelling project & the personal journey that accompanied it.
The latest blog has been published. Happy Reading!
grripp.net/post/transgender-…