Enhancing Inclusion: Evaluating, Co-Creating, and Implementing Effective Practices to Address Barriers for LGBTQ+ Researchers in STEM and Energy: Fasoli, Fabio (Principal Investigator) Reggiani, Marco (Co-investigator); This project is focused on enhancing LGBTQ+ inclusion within STEM and energy research. Using a range of methodologies and a comprehensive approach, the project aims to identify, evaluate, and improve strategies adopted by UK Higher Education institutions to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion for LGBTQ+ researchers in STEM and energy. The project has three main objectives. First, it seeks to map and review existing diversity and inclusion practices (type, content, frequency) and the processes that led to their implementation through interviews with EDI experts/practitioners. Second, it aims to examine LGBTQ+ individuals' perceptions of different practices and why they consider some more effective than others. Third, the project aims to co-create solutions and enhance capacity for change and innovation by working together with LGBTQ+ researchers and EDI practitioners. The project's findings and recommendations will generate valuable insights and resources to advance LGBTQ+ inclusion across STEM and energy research.

£ 19,953 (100% FEC) IGNITE Network+ FA2 project; 15-Jan-2025 - 15-Jan-2025
Queer Highlands and Islands: (Re)Placing Queer Publics: Taylor, Yvette (Principal Investigator) Reggiani, Marco (Principal Investigator); This project addresses ‘the scarcity of quality data regarding rural communities’ (RSE, 2023), focusing on the possibilities of LGBTQ+ lives, people and places as offering a ‘queer-ing’ of normative knowledges, locations and centres.

£ 3,000 HaSS Strategic Project; 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2024
Creating Change by telling the whole story: Making the case for qualitative research: Reggiani, Marco (Principal Investigator); Existing studies show that LGBTQ+ experiences of climate in STEM (working and research cultures) are constructed from perceptions and experiences with inconsistent policies and practices. LGBTQ+ people and communities in STEM experience and observe exclusionary behaviour, along with multiple and compounded discriminations that are shaped by the availability and quality of support structures and professional networks. Improving inclusion and retention of LGBTQ+ people in STEM requires multifaceted, multidisciplinary, intersectional approaches. Studies exploring the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in STEM have employed a wide range of methods, yet quantitative data is favoured amongst policy and decision-maker. Qualitative data, by comparison, can be misunderstood and devalued by stakeholders. The main purpose of this project is to develop a sector-wide, cross-disciplinary, international understanding of the potential impact that qualitative or mixed methods approaches present for improving policies and practices to address retention of LGBTQ+ people in STEM.; 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
How does diversity among witnesses in deliberative mini-publics affect citizen perceptions of legitimacy?: Reher, Stefanie (Principal Investigator) Roberts, Jen (Co-investigator) Reggiani, Marco (Co-investigator) Lightbody, Ruth (Co-investigator) Salamon, Hannah (Researcher); The project explores the role of diversity and representativeness among witnesses in citizens’ perceptions of the legitimacy of DMPs. We will conduct a survey experiment in the UK to examine whether citizens – particularly from marginalised groups – perceive DMPs as more democratically legitimate if (i) they have procedures in place to ensure diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility among witnesses and (ii) if the set witnesses are more diverse and representative.

£ 9,945 (100% FEC) + £6,491 (GCU in-kind contribution); 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
Revitalizing Shrinking Cities in Japan: A Study on the Socio-Spatial Impact of the Shinkansen in Aomori Prefecture: Reggiani, Marco (Principal Investigator); The recent extension of the Shinkansen network towards Japanese peripheral regions highlights critical issues in Japan’s approach toward regional revitalisation—particularly in the context of severe depopulation. While the Tokaido Line shows some positive impacts, it remains unclear whether high-speed rail can help close regional gaps as shrinkage continues. Moreover, there is little recent empirical research on the Shinkansen’s impact on the built environment, communities, and cultural geographies in shrinking cities. This project addresses that gap by examining the socio-spatial effects of the Shinkansen in four shrinking cities and towns in Aomori Prefecture—Hachinohe, Shichinohe, Aomori, and Imabetsu. Drawing on new empirical data, it explores how urban landscapes and place identities are changing, how high-speed rail features in local strategies to address shrinkage, and how connected cities are deterritorialised and reterritorialised by this infrastructure. The project offers new insights into the socio-spatial impacts of HSR-led revitalisation and the evolving relationship between transport infrastructure, cities, and communities.

Japan Foundation: JPY 1,003,000; 07-Jan-2022 - 13-Jan-2022
Investigating representation amongst evidence-givers in participatory decision-making for environmental solutions: Roberts, Jen (Principal Investigator) Reher, Stefanie (Co-investigator) Reggiani, Marco (Researcher) Salamon, Hannah (Researcher) Lightbody, Ruth (Co-investigator); Applicants represent a mixture across career stages (PhD student/Research Assistant, Research Associate, Chancellor’s Fellow, Senior Lecturer) and disciplines (including politics, gender and sexuality studies, engineering, environmental science). The ‘rapid response’ DH activity will bring the team together in new collaborative research on equity and representation amongst evidence-givers in the recent wave of participatory decision-making approaches intended to inform environmental solutions and climate action, including Citizens’ Assemblies. Through DH we will share knowledge, approaches, and theories, and gather and analyse data to generate initial research insights which will form a working paper and pump-prime a research proposal intended for NERC-ESRC funding.

£ 13,390 (100% FEC); 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2022

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