The open research movement is strongly imbricated with ethical concerns. More transparent research, it is said, reduces the possibility for fraudulent or questionable research practices, while ensuring more clearly defined research processes. On the other hand, some argue that aspects of open research such as open data should be treated with caution due to potential risks to anonymity, particularly for research with participants from marginalised communities.
One area of importance for the intersection of open research and ethics is gender. It has been noted how open research, requiring a certain degree of institutional support and available research time, can both retrench academic power hierarchies, and lead to procedural approaches that are dismissive of research that does not fit the mould. Such attitudes that are “condescending, forthright, aggressive, overpowering, and lacking kindness and self-awareness" have been labeled as “#bropenscience” (Whitaker & Guest, 2020). Brabeck (2021) notes how open research policies often take “gender-blind” approaches and how open science’s privileging of objectivity promotes patriarchal values. Other ethical questions arise about which researchers adhere to “bare minimum” required open practices, and which seek to embed openness more holistically, and why.
This event brought together researchers from a variety of fields to explore what we can learn – and what is left out – at the intersection of open research, gender, and ethics.
The event was chaired by Professor Denisa Kostovicova, Professor in Global Politics and Director of LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe, European Institute, LSE.
The event featured the following speakers:
- Dr Koen Slootmaeckers, Reader International Politics (E&R), School of Policy and Global Affairs of City, University of London. - Professor Vjollca Krasniqi, Professor of Sociology, University of Prishtina - Dr Indraneel Sircar, Associate Professor (Teaching) in Quantitative Research Methods and Political Science, UCL
The Centre for Young Lives has published a blog about its research with Agenda Alliance on the mental health of young women and girls in the UK. The research included an evidence review, a roundtable discussion, and interviews with stakeholders from the women and girls’ sector, youth and mental health sectors. The report discusses the prevalence of mental health problems among girls and young women; their experiences with mental health services; and the role of philanthropy in bridging gaps in mental health support. It sets out ten recommendations to illustrate how philanthropy can deliver change for girls and young women’s mental health and help to strengthen the sector.
This fascinating blog post by a records specialist showcases a selection of historic letters displayed in the 2026 National Archives Love Letters exhibition, along with responses from visitors.
They include same‑sex love, forbidden love, and other expressions of intimacy, including some which at various points in history were criminalised. The visitors’ responses document their emotions and experiences using visual, written, and audio methods.
IMF’s policy advice on tax in its Article IV reports since the pandemic has been skewed towards regressive taxation. This indicates its continued insistence on austerity as the default way forward, thereby entrenching gender and economic inequalities.
An Open Letter, signed by over 100 organisations and coordinated by Hague Mothers, is trying to remove Clause 104 of the UK’s Crime & Policing Bill, which will criminalise DV victim-survivors who flee the country with their children to keep them safe. They are asking people to write to their MPs about the issue. For more information, please email advocacyhague@filia.org.uk
An online exhibition curated by AMNESTY WCARO which examines the persecution of women for witchcraft in Northern Ghana through the voices and experiences of women accused. The site has a 3d tour and exhibition catalogue
Great news @lse.library has just digitised the Townswoman 1933-1954
https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ The Townswomen's Guilds were founded in 1929 by Eva Hubback and Dame Margery Corbett Ashby. The aim of the organisation was to educate women to be citizens. The journals are a fascinating source of information on an interwar women's organisation - the type of events they organised, local branch activities. Examples of welfare campaigns and activism at a grassroots level. find out more: https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/5TGH
This research weaves together the experience of LGBTQIA+ communities in Ethiopia – how they are impacted by online gender-based violence, yet continue to exist and build community with creativity, resistance and strength.
Platform workers have consistently highlighted abysmal payouts, erratic rate cuts, tedious working hours, panoptic surveillance, and ineffective grievance redressal systems in India. Wages are determined algorithmically, fluctuating according to the variables companies choose to prioritise. With their income hinging on daily, weekly or monthly incentives, workers are inadvertently pressured to work long hours, target peak demand periods or travel to multiple locations to maximise their incomes. Led by the Internet Research Lab, India, “GigSaathi: A feminist action research project to address wage disparities and platform power”, aims at addressing a key power dynamic between digital platforms and gig workers: the information asymmetry on wages.
Record of the Suffrage Pilgrimage, manuscript diary by Marjory Lees, 1911-1932, Manuscript diary by Marjory Lees who went with 8 women from Oldham as part of the Manchester contingent of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) Pilgrimage to London, 7-26 July 1913. It includes press cuttings and leaflets relating to the pilgrimage. At the front are press cuttings, leaflet and invitation (1911, 1912, 1932) and a letter from Marjory Lees (undated) to Mrs Horton, Oldham (2OWS/3) at the back., 2OWS/2, In Copyright., Lees, Marjory, Diaries, Suffrage Collection, Suffrage Scrapbooks
The “Women in politics: 2026” map shows persistent male dominance in political power. As of 1 January 2026, women lead only 28 countries, hold 27.4 per cent of parliamentary seats, and hold 22.4 per cent of cabinet posts, marking regression.
Editors of the interdisciplinary journals Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, Frontiers, and Signs discuss the second Trump administration’s attacks on women’s and gender studies.
Understanding Technology-Facilitated Gender-based Violence (TFGBV) in the Philippines Understanding TFGBV in the Philippines Since 2012, the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) has documented 738 cases of Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) in the Philippines in its Read more
This is a great oral history project which aims to capture the early days of the Women’s Aid Federation of England (WAFE), 1974–1984. There are 12 interviews carried out between 2022 and 2024. They offer insight into women’s support for survivors of domestic violence and grassroots advocacy. Details of the main archive are provided on the website.
Mrs Justice Lieven of the High Court has handed down her judgment in the case of University of Sussex v Office for Students. She concludes that the regulator falsely treated the Sussex trans and non-binary equality policy statement as a governing document, and did not read the policy in the light of the university’s freedom of speech code of practice. She also found that there was strong evidence of predetermination throughout the process by which OfS investigated and fined Sussex for a breach of its freedom of speech duty.
The Global Misogyny News Coverage Tracker unearths endemic violence against women yet low coverage of these stories. Across 1.14bn articles, misogyny-related coverage hit a 1.3% low in 2025. Survivor-, solutions- and system- based angles are needed.
the Dag Hammarskjöld Library has now digitised over 690 documents from the 1980 World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace” convened in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 14 to 30 July 1980, This was the second global gathering on women during the United Nations Decade for Women (1976–1985). It served as a mid-decade review of progress made since the first World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975.all the documents are prefixed by the symbol These documents, identified by the series symbol A/CONF.94/–,
Women constitute the majority of older persons globally, and the number of older women is projected to increase rapidly over the next decades. Although women live longer than men on average, they tend to spend a higher proportion of their later years living in poor health or with disability, often due to a higher burden of non-communicable diseases and chronic conditions. Integrating a gender perspective into health, social protection and care systems is critical to improve the quality of life of all older persons and to enable their full contributions to advancing sustainable development.
** This lecture includes Holocaust and WWII imagery that some viewers may find distressing.** What is it that makes an image stick in our memory against our will? People find many of Lee Miller’s combat photographs have this indelible quality, and of these the most powerful are from her witness of the Holocaust. Her stark and harrowing evidence takes us back to one of the most terrible episodes of persecution in the whole grim history of man’s inhumanity to man.
This research explores the impacts of TFGBV on the experiences of Black Brazilian women, as well as documenting how we/they have been resisting, creating connections with each other and finding joy in spite of the hostility of online environments.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Scrapbook, 1907-1929, Millicent Garrett Fawcett's personal scrapbook of material related to women's suffrage. Album contains personal ephemera, press cuttings, tributes, photographs invitations, cards, cartoons (mostly from Punch) suffrage and election flyers, including obituary of Millicent Garrett Fawcett., 7MGF/B/08, Out of Copyright., Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Dame, 1847-1929, Ephemera, Suffrage Collection, Suffrage Scrapbooks
A great resource co created by the women’s grassroots activism project a partipatory research project Funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX008606%2F1)
Which ran from 2023-25 . The project set out to identify how grassroots women’s organisations, working to enhance the lives of women and girls since the early 1900s, can co-identify strategies to safeguard their future activities and activism for the next 100+ years. the network worked with : the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA); the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI); the Federation of Women’s Institutes of Northern Ireland (WINI); the Soroptimists International Tunbridge Wells and District Club; Soroptimists International South East Region; Soroptimists International Republic of Ireland and Soroptimists International Northern Ireland,
includes advice for activists including record keeping advcacy tactics and methods such as storytelling. It ha smany real life examples taken from the groups.
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