📣 Help Shape the Future of UKRI's Gateway to Research (GtR)

We're improving UKRI's Gateway to Research and are seeking your input! If you would be interested in being interviewed about the improvements we're making and to have your say about how we can make GtR more user-friendly, impactful, and effective for the Research and Innovation community, please email gateway@ukri.org.

European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective (EUTERPE)

Lead Research Organisation: Coventry University
Department Name: Ctr for Global Learning

Abstract

The aim of EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender in Transnational Perspective) is to offer an innovative approach to rethinking European cultural production in the light of complex social and political negotiations that are shaping European spaces and identities at present. EUTERPE intends to do that by bringing together gender and transnational perspectives within an interdisciplinary approach to literary and cultural studies. EUTERPE proposes to train and supervise 9 ESRs in interdisciplinary, transnational, gender focused literary studies. The research is organized into 8 WPs within four main areas: 1. Transnational women's literature and its travels: points of entry and pathways (WP 1, WP2); 2. Translational genres: crossing borders in gender, form, space, and identity (WP 3, WP4); 3. Transnational women intellectuals, multilingualism and decolonising European pedagogies (WP 5, WP6); 4. Transnational literature and cultural production: intermediality as a form of translation (WP7, WP8). The ESRs' academic training will include two supervisors from cooperating universities, a compulsory secondment period, and an industrial internship with an Associated Partner organization to support bespoke employability enhancement. Major impact outputs of the project: 9 PhD theses; a co-produced open source Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe with key concepts and bio-bibliographic entries on leading representatives of the field; and a Digital Catalogue and Podcast Library, which will make accessible all relevant material collected during the creation of the Dictionary. As a complex project, which brings together research, training, and open access publications of innovative and long-lasting value, EUTERPE will have strong influence in the intersecting fields of literary and gender studies, as well
as in the connecting fields of transnational studies, translation studies, migration studies and European studies.
 
Title "Home" 
Description An artistic event organised by the Georgian-American project "Home" - entailing a discussion between Nina and Nana Ablaze - a transnational author - speaking about elements of queerness, identity, gender, and more in Georgian/transnational lives and literatures. These were public events directed at Georgian-American migrant and queer communities in New York and Washington DC. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2024 
Impact The event has led to Nina's work on her podcast series as part of the outputs for EUTERPE 
 
Title Arasahas 
Description A volume of 40 poems. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact Pedagogy, translation, co-creation. 
 
Title PEARLS 
Description My poetry was featured in the performance currently touring in Belgium and I was also served as dramaturg of the production. 
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) 
Year Produced 2024 
Impact Co-creation. 
 
Title Ultra Unreal 
Description I was a featured poet in this exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Sydney. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Co-creation, pedagogy. 
 
Description The project is still on going so what is shared is since the past reporting period:
The consortium's main focus is to bring the different perspectives of the 11 EUTERPE PhD thesis together and to establish the foundation for a transnational feminist literary theory in 'The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe', the main EUTERPE outcome.
During the two EUTERPE schools in the last reporting period, all the DCs have had the opportunity to share their initial research results, followed by extended feedback sessions in which all senior scholars of the consortium and sometimes also further invited academics participated.
Besides working towards their individual academic progress, with the careful guidance of their supervisors and the EUTERPE's Editorial Board each EUTERPE DC made a selection of transnational woman authors and started to develop their first biocritical entries for the second volume of the
Handbook. As part of their work within the Transnational Literary Research Laboratory, the DCs also planned and developed their first podcasts for the EUTERPE Podcast Library.
-The Doctoral Candidates' Open Access publications to date are available through the EUTERPE project website which showcases their findings of their doctorate studies to date.

- The 'Digital Catalogue and Podcast Library' will serve to enhance the cross-border circulation of European cultural wealth by establishing and running an inclusive and flexibly available platform about European transnational literary output. This podcast library is in progress and on track.

- Further, the DCs are all engaging in custom-made employability skills training through 'industrial' internships within cogent but diverse organizations through associated
partnerships across European contexts with libraries, publishing houses, museums, art networks.
Exploitation Route The outcomes that will emerge from all the project efforts will serve to offer an innovative approach to rethinking European cultural production in the light of complex social and political negotiations that are shaping European spaces and identities at present. EUTERPE intends to do that by bringing together gender and transnational perspectives within an interdisciplinary approach to literary and cultural studies.
The EUTERPE project is based upon the principles of open science and the principles of FAIR and open data sharing, that is all produced data will be accessible via open-source platforms.
All sources will be integrated into project outputs with proper acknowledgment and attribution, following the highest academic standards.
All project deliverables will have tools that make data findable, like persistent identifiers.
The project is predominantly based upon textual sources and produces textual sources, with a smaller number of consent-based interviews, which will also be available on an open-source platform as podcasts.
Sectors Creative Economy

Education

Culture

Heritage

Museums and Collections
 
Description The EUTERPE project intends to make an important contribution to understanding, interpreting, and teaching contemporary European literature and contemporary women's literature. The main contribution of the project is to literary and gender studies, but being profoundly interdisciplinary, it engages with other related fields of study as well. Additionally, all our 11 EUTERPE doctorate candidates (DCs) are engaging in industrial internships supporting not only academic partners but also enriching the DCs employability skills and CVs. Within the EUTERPE project, 6 beneficiaries and 2 Associated Partner Universities closely cooperate with a pool of industrial Associated Partners, among them publishing houses, museums, archives, and cultural festivals, covering a wide range of areas of potential interest for the EUTERPE DCs. In this way, the DCs will be introduced to a broader range of employment possibilities beyond academia, using their academic training, and in particular their critical understandings of the significance of a transnational lens and gender perspective within the larger sphere of culture. All our 11 EUTERPE DCs are offering open science focused lectures for the whole EUTERPE consortium and public audiences. Both individual and collective research projects are in an advanced phase of collecting data. Senior and junior researchers started writing the first entries that will be a part of the final project output. The research work for the Handbook moved on from planning to manuscript drafting stage. During action months 1-24 a detailed outline of the Handbook had been developed, and in action month 24 it was presented to the Project's Advisory Board. EUTERPE exemplifies a strong commitment to the EU's Green Charter by integrating sustainable practices into its operations. The consortium encourages the use of land-based travel whenever feasible, thereby lowering their carbon footprint and promoting eco-friendly transportation options. Additionally, the EUTERPE coordinator's team actively seeks to mitigate the environmental impact of their activities by conducting virtual meetings. For that reason, the 2nd Employability Mentors' Meeting and the 2nd Advisory Board Meeting, originally both planned as in-person meetings, will be held online to further contribute to environmentally sustainable practices. The consortium also prioritizes sustainable and/or zero-waste catering services for in- person events. Meetings held at the CEU in Vienna, including the Kick-off Meeting (action month 1), Mid-Term Meeting (action month 15), and the 2nd EUTERPE Summer School (action month 24), all utilized the catering services of RITA bringt's, Vienna's first delivery service and catering company specializing in vegetarian organic food, delivered sustainably by cargo bike (https://www.ritabringts.at/). This choice underscores the consortium's commitment to sustainability and responsible sourcing, effectively minimizing food waste and reducing packaging. Finally, the consortium's administration is entirely paper-free, as data storage and sharing happens exclusively by digital means. Through these deliberate and thoughtful actions, EUTERPE not only adheres to the EU's sustainability goals but also plays a vital role in fostering a greener and more sustainable future. Their commitment may serve as a model for other projects and organizations aiming to implement environmentally responsible practices.
First Year Of Impact 2024
Sector Creative Economy,Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types Cultural

Societal

Policy & public services
 
Description EUTERPE - Main areas targeted for potential influence and impact
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
 
Description EUTERPE - Main areas targeted for potential influence and impact
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
 
Description Handbook of Transnational Literature
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation Central European University
Country Austria 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professor Suzanne Clisby was Professor of Gender Studies at Coventry University until July 2023 when she moved HEIs to take up a post as Professor of Education & Social Justice at the University of Lincoln. However she continues to play an active role in the Horizon Europe EUTERPE project. Professor Clisby co-authored the project from bid development with Professor Jasmina Lukic (EUTERPE Lead P.I., Central European University and she continues to work closely Professor Lukic in the delivery of the EUTERPE MSCA. Professor Clisby was UK PI of EUTERPE from September 2022 and continues to work closely with Professor Lukic and within the Consortia as Expert Advisor to the Consortium, Employability Advisor (Granada), and External Supervisor (Coventry). Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and is included as a collaborator on this reporting period • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: Lodz EUTERPE Spring School in action month 20 (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). 2nd CEU EUTERPE Summer School, action month 24 (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming 1st York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Re: our EUTERPE Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States this last academic year 2024 in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. Indeed, the Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) which Professor Clisby authored and led as Principle Investigator. The GRACE Project (graceproject.eu) involved 10 academic and industrial partners across six European countries (UK, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Hungary). GRACE investigated the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe through 15 interdisciplinary research projects and has become an EC programme of reference for innovative interdisciplinary doctoral training for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. We also provided a series of policy briefings for the European Commission. The GRACE Project was commended as a 'perfect example of an ITN' by the external assessor, was used as an example of excellence by the European Commission and showcased as a H2020 'success story'. The Consortium which is delivering EUTERPE builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. Professor Clisby (UK PI 2006-2018, Chair of Expert Advisory Board 2019-2024) in collaboration with members of the now EUTERPE Consortia, and led by PI Professor Adelina Sanchez (Granada University). The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. The European Commission has called it 'the representative [programme] at European level in tuning common curricula in gender studies'. Since 2006 we have provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • The 1st EUTERPE Employability Mentors meeting took place during the Lodz, Poland, EUTERPE spring school attended by Mark Adams the CU Employability Mentor for Nina • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025
Impact The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. The Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. EUTERPE also builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. Since 2006 the GEMMA programme has provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). (Under review)
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation Central European University
Country Austria 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting until her departure from Coventry University 17th January 2025. (GLEA went through a period of review, consultation and restructure, which unfortunately led to Jaya's decision to leave the Centre.) • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: o Lodz EUTERPE meeting in action month x (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). o CEU Partner meeting, action month x (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming ok-Coventry School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States (add dates) in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry Summer School in May 2025
Impact This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson).
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation University of Bologna
Country Italy 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professor Suzanne Clisby was Professor of Gender Studies at Coventry University until July 2023 when she moved HEIs to take up a post as Professor of Education & Social Justice at the University of Lincoln. However she continues to play an active role in the Horizon Europe EUTERPE project. Professor Clisby co-authored the project from bid development with Professor Jasmina Lukic (EUTERPE Lead P.I., Central European University and she continues to work closely Professor Lukic in the delivery of the EUTERPE MSCA. Professor Clisby was UK PI of EUTERPE from September 2022 and continues to work closely with Professor Lukic and within the Consortia as Expert Advisor to the Consortium, Employability Advisor (Granada), and External Supervisor (Coventry). Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and is included as a collaborator on this reporting period • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: Lodz EUTERPE Spring School in action month 20 (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). 2nd CEU EUTERPE Summer School, action month 24 (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming 1st York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Re: our EUTERPE Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States this last academic year 2024 in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. Indeed, the Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) which Professor Clisby authored and led as Principle Investigator. The GRACE Project (graceproject.eu) involved 10 academic and industrial partners across six European countries (UK, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Hungary). GRACE investigated the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe through 15 interdisciplinary research projects and has become an EC programme of reference for innovative interdisciplinary doctoral training for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. We also provided a series of policy briefings for the European Commission. The GRACE Project was commended as a 'perfect example of an ITN' by the external assessor, was used as an example of excellence by the European Commission and showcased as a H2020 'success story'. The Consortium which is delivering EUTERPE builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. Professor Clisby (UK PI 2006-2018, Chair of Expert Advisory Board 2019-2024) in collaboration with members of the now EUTERPE Consortia, and led by PI Professor Adelina Sanchez (Granada University). The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. The European Commission has called it 'the representative [programme] at European level in tuning common curricula in gender studies'. Since 2006 we have provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • The 1st EUTERPE Employability Mentors meeting took place during the Lodz, Poland, EUTERPE spring school attended by Mark Adams the CU Employability Mentor for Nina • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025
Impact The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. The Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. EUTERPE also builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. Since 2006 the GEMMA programme has provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). (Under review)
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation University of Bologna
Country Italy 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting until her departure from Coventry University 17th January 2025. (GLEA went through a period of review, consultation and restructure, which unfortunately led to Jaya's decision to leave the Centre.) • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: o Lodz EUTERPE meeting in action month x (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). o CEU Partner meeting, action month x (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming ok-Coventry School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States (add dates) in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry Summer School in May 2025
Impact This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson).
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation University of Granada
Country Spain 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professor Suzanne Clisby was Professor of Gender Studies at Coventry University until July 2023 when she moved HEIs to take up a post as Professor of Education & Social Justice at the University of Lincoln. However she continues to play an active role in the Horizon Europe EUTERPE project. Professor Clisby co-authored the project from bid development with Professor Jasmina Lukic (EUTERPE Lead P.I., Central European University and she continues to work closely Professor Lukic in the delivery of the EUTERPE MSCA. Professor Clisby was UK PI of EUTERPE from September 2022 and continues to work closely with Professor Lukic and within the Consortia as Expert Advisor to the Consortium, Employability Advisor (Granada), and External Supervisor (Coventry). Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and is included as a collaborator on this reporting period • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: Lodz EUTERPE Spring School in action month 20 (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). 2nd CEU EUTERPE Summer School, action month 24 (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming 1st York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Re: our EUTERPE Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States this last academic year 2024 in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. Indeed, the Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) which Professor Clisby authored and led as Principle Investigator. The GRACE Project (graceproject.eu) involved 10 academic and industrial partners across six European countries (UK, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Hungary). GRACE investigated the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe through 15 interdisciplinary research projects and has become an EC programme of reference for innovative interdisciplinary doctoral training for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. We also provided a series of policy briefings for the European Commission. The GRACE Project was commended as a 'perfect example of an ITN' by the external assessor, was used as an example of excellence by the European Commission and showcased as a H2020 'success story'. The Consortium which is delivering EUTERPE builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. Professor Clisby (UK PI 2006-2018, Chair of Expert Advisory Board 2019-2024) in collaboration with members of the now EUTERPE Consortia, and led by PI Professor Adelina Sanchez (Granada University). The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. The European Commission has called it 'the representative [programme] at European level in tuning common curricula in gender studies'. Since 2006 we have provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • The 1st EUTERPE Employability Mentors meeting took place during the Lodz, Poland, EUTERPE spring school attended by Mark Adams the CU Employability Mentor for Nina • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025
Impact The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. The Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. EUTERPE also builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. Since 2006 the GEMMA programme has provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). (Under review)
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation University of Granada
Country Spain 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting until her departure from Coventry University 17th January 2025. (GLEA went through a period of review, consultation and restructure, which unfortunately led to Jaya's decision to leave the Centre.) • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: o Lodz EUTERPE meeting in action month x (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). o CEU Partner meeting, action month x (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming ok-Coventry School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States (add dates) in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry Summer School in May 2025
Impact This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson).
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation University of Lincoln
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professor Suzanne Clisby was Professor of Gender Studies at Coventry University until July 2023 when she moved HEIs to take up a post as Professor of Education & Social Justice at the University of Lincoln. However she continues to play an active role in the Horizon Europe EUTERPE project. Professor Clisby co-authored the project from bid development with Professor Jasmina Lukic (EUTERPE Lead P.I., Central European University and she continues to work closely Professor Lukic in the delivery of the EUTERPE MSCA. Professor Clisby was UK PI of EUTERPE from September 2022 and continues to work closely with Professor Lukic and within the Consortia as Expert Advisor to the Consortium, Employability Advisor (Granada), and External Supervisor (Coventry). Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and is included as a collaborator on this reporting period • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: Lodz EUTERPE Spring School in action month 20 (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). 2nd CEU EUTERPE Summer School, action month 24 (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming 1st York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Re: our EUTERPE Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States this last academic year 2024 in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. Indeed, the Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) which Professor Clisby authored and led as Principle Investigator. The GRACE Project (graceproject.eu) involved 10 academic and industrial partners across six European countries (UK, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Hungary). GRACE investigated the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe through 15 interdisciplinary research projects and has become an EC programme of reference for innovative interdisciplinary doctoral training for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. We also provided a series of policy briefings for the European Commission. The GRACE Project was commended as a 'perfect example of an ITN' by the external assessor, was used as an example of excellence by the European Commission and showcased as a H2020 'success story'. The Consortium which is delivering EUTERPE builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. Professor Clisby (UK PI 2006-2018, Chair of Expert Advisory Board 2019-2024) in collaboration with members of the now EUTERPE Consortia, and led by PI Professor Adelina Sanchez (Granada University). The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. The European Commission has called it 'the representative [programme] at European level in tuning common curricula in gender studies'. Since 2006 we have provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • The 1st EUTERPE Employability Mentors meeting took place during the Lodz, Poland, EUTERPE spring school attended by Mark Adams the CU Employability Mentor for Nina • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025
Impact The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. The Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. EUTERPE also builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. Since 2006 the GEMMA programme has provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). (Under review)
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation University of Lodz
Country Poland 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting until her departure from Coventry University 17th January 2025. (GLEA went through a period of review, consultation and restructure, which unfortunately led to Jaya's decision to leave the Centre.) • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: o Lodz EUTERPE meeting in action month x (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). o CEU Partner meeting, action month x (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming ok-Coventry School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States (add dates) in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry Summer School in May 2025
Impact This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson).
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation University of Lodz
Country Poland 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professor Suzanne Clisby was Professor of Gender Studies at Coventry University until July 2023 when she moved HEIs to take up a post as Professor of Education & Social Justice at the University of Lincoln. However she continues to play an active role in the Horizon Europe EUTERPE project. Professor Clisby co-authored the project from bid development with Professor Jasmina Lukic (EUTERPE Lead P.I., Central European University and she continues to work closely Professor Lukic in the delivery of the EUTERPE MSCA. Professor Clisby was UK PI of EUTERPE from September 2022 and continues to work closely with Professor Lukic and within the Consortia as Expert Advisor to the Consortium, Employability Advisor (Granada), and External Supervisor (Coventry). Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and is included as a collaborator on this reporting period • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: Lodz EUTERPE Spring School in action month 20 (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). 2nd CEU EUTERPE Summer School, action month 24 (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming 1st York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Re: our EUTERPE Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States this last academic year 2024 in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. Indeed, the Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) which Professor Clisby authored and led as Principle Investigator. The GRACE Project (graceproject.eu) involved 10 academic and industrial partners across six European countries (UK, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Hungary). GRACE investigated the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe through 15 interdisciplinary research projects and has become an EC programme of reference for innovative interdisciplinary doctoral training for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. We also provided a series of policy briefings for the European Commission. The GRACE Project was commended as a 'perfect example of an ITN' by the external assessor, was used as an example of excellence by the European Commission and showcased as a H2020 'success story'. The Consortium which is delivering EUTERPE builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. Professor Clisby (UK PI 2006-2018, Chair of Expert Advisory Board 2019-2024) in collaboration with members of the now EUTERPE Consortia, and led by PI Professor Adelina Sanchez (Granada University). The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. The European Commission has called it 'the representative [programme] at European level in tuning common curricula in gender studies'. Since 2006 we have provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • The 1st EUTERPE Employability Mentors meeting took place during the Lodz, Poland, EUTERPE spring school attended by Mark Adams the CU Employability Mentor for Nina • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025
Impact The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. The Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. EUTERPE also builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. Since 2006 the GEMMA programme has provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). (Under review)
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation University of Oviedo
Country Spain 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting until her departure from Coventry University 17th January 2025. (GLEA went through a period of review, consultation and restructure, which unfortunately led to Jaya's decision to leave the Centre.) • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: o Lodz EUTERPE meeting in action month x (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). o CEU Partner meeting, action month x (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming ok-Coventry School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States (add dates) in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry Summer School in May 2025
Impact This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson).
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation University of Oviedo
Country Spain 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professor Suzanne Clisby was Professor of Gender Studies at Coventry University until July 2023 when she moved HEIs to take up a post as Professor of Education & Social Justice at the University of Lincoln. However she continues to play an active role in the Horizon Europe EUTERPE project. Professor Clisby co-authored the project from bid development with Professor Jasmina Lukic (EUTERPE Lead P.I., Central European University and she continues to work closely Professor Lukic in the delivery of the EUTERPE MSCA. Professor Clisby was UK PI of EUTERPE from September 2022 and continues to work closely with Professor Lukic and within the Consortia as Expert Advisor to the Consortium, Employability Advisor (Granada), and External Supervisor (Coventry). Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and is included as a collaborator on this reporting period • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: Lodz EUTERPE Spring School in action month 20 (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). 2nd CEU EUTERPE Summer School, action month 24 (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming 1st York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Re: our EUTERPE Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States this last academic year 2024 in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. Indeed, the Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) which Professor Clisby authored and led as Principle Investigator. The GRACE Project (graceproject.eu) involved 10 academic and industrial partners across six European countries (UK, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Hungary). GRACE investigated the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe through 15 interdisciplinary research projects and has become an EC programme of reference for innovative interdisciplinary doctoral training for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. We also provided a series of policy briefings for the European Commission. The GRACE Project was commended as a 'perfect example of an ITN' by the external assessor, was used as an example of excellence by the European Commission and showcased as a H2020 'success story'. The Consortium which is delivering EUTERPE builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. Professor Clisby (UK PI 2006-2018, Chair of Expert Advisory Board 2019-2024) in collaboration with members of the now EUTERPE Consortia, and led by PI Professor Adelina Sanchez (Granada University). The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. The European Commission has called it 'the representative [programme] at European level in tuning common curricula in gender studies'. Since 2006 we have provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • The 1st EUTERPE Employability Mentors meeting took place during the Lodz, Poland, EUTERPE spring school attended by Mark Adams the CU Employability Mentor for Nina • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025
Impact The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. The Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. EUTERPE also builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. Since 2006 the GEMMA programme has provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). (Under review)
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation University of York
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professor Suzanne Clisby was Professor of Gender Studies at Coventry University until July 2023 when she moved HEIs to take up a post as Professor of Education & Social Justice at the University of Lincoln. However she continues to play an active role in the Horizon Europe EUTERPE project. Professor Clisby co-authored the project from bid development with Professor Jasmina Lukic (EUTERPE Lead P.I., Central European University and she continues to work closely Professor Lukic in the delivery of the EUTERPE MSCA. Professor Clisby was UK PI of EUTERPE from September 2022 and continues to work closely with Professor Lukic and within the Consortia as Expert Advisor to the Consortium, Employability Advisor (Granada), and External Supervisor (Coventry). Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and is included as a collaborator on this reporting period • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: Lodz EUTERPE Spring School in action month 20 (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). 2nd CEU EUTERPE Summer School, action month 24 (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming 1st York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Re: our EUTERPE Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States this last academic year 2024 in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. Indeed, the Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) which Professor Clisby authored and led as Principle Investigator. The GRACE Project (graceproject.eu) involved 10 academic and industrial partners across six European countries (UK, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Hungary). GRACE investigated the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe through 15 interdisciplinary research projects and has become an EC programme of reference for innovative interdisciplinary doctoral training for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. We also provided a series of policy briefings for the European Commission. The GRACE Project was commended as a 'perfect example of an ITN' by the external assessor, was used as an example of excellence by the European Commission and showcased as a H2020 'success story'. The Consortium which is delivering EUTERPE builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. Professor Clisby (UK PI 2006-2018, Chair of Expert Advisory Board 2019-2024) in collaboration with members of the now EUTERPE Consortia, and led by PI Professor Adelina Sanchez (Granada University). The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. The European Commission has called it 'the representative [programme] at European level in tuning common curricula in gender studies'. Since 2006 we have provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • The 1st EUTERPE Employability Mentors meeting took place during the Lodz, Poland, EUTERPE spring school attended by Mark Adams the CU Employability Mentor for Nina • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025
Impact The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. The Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. EUTERPE also builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. Since 2006 the GEMMA programme has provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). (Under review)
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation University of York
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting until her departure from Coventry University 17th January 2025. (GLEA went through a period of review, consultation and restructure, which unfortunately led to Jaya's decision to leave the Centre.) • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: o Lodz EUTERPE meeting in action month x (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). o CEU Partner meeting, action month x (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming ok-Coventry School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States (add dates) in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry Summer School in May 2025
Impact This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson).
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation Utrecht University
Country Netherlands 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professor Suzanne Clisby was Professor of Gender Studies at Coventry University until July 2023 when she moved HEIs to take up a post as Professor of Education & Social Justice at the University of Lincoln. However she continues to play an active role in the Horizon Europe EUTERPE project. Professor Clisby co-authored the project from bid development with Professor Jasmina Lukic (EUTERPE Lead P.I., Central European University and she continues to work closely Professor Lukic in the delivery of the EUTERPE MSCA. Professor Clisby was UK PI of EUTERPE from September 2022 and continues to work closely with Professor Lukic and within the Consortia as Expert Advisor to the Consortium, Employability Advisor (Granada), and External Supervisor (Coventry). Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and is included as a collaborator on this reporting period • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: Lodz EUTERPE Spring School in action month 20 (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). 2nd CEU EUTERPE Summer School, action month 24 (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming 1st York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Re: our EUTERPE Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States this last academic year 2024 in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. Indeed, the Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) which Professor Clisby authored and led as Principle Investigator. The GRACE Project (graceproject.eu) involved 10 academic and industrial partners across six European countries (UK, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Hungary). GRACE investigated the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe through 15 interdisciplinary research projects and has become an EC programme of reference for innovative interdisciplinary doctoral training for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. We also provided a series of policy briefings for the European Commission. The GRACE Project was commended as a 'perfect example of an ITN' by the external assessor, was used as an example of excellence by the European Commission and showcased as a H2020 'success story'. The Consortium which is delivering EUTERPE builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. Professor Clisby (UK PI 2006-2018, Chair of Expert Advisory Board 2019-2024) in collaboration with members of the now EUTERPE Consortia, and led by PI Professor Adelina Sanchez (Granada University). The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. The European Commission has called it 'the representative [programme] at European level in tuning common curricula in gender studies'. Since 2006 we have provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • The 1st EUTERPE Employability Mentors meeting took place during the Lodz, Poland, EUTERPE spring school attended by Mark Adams the CU Employability Mentor for Nina • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry EUTERPE Summer School in May 2025
Impact The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. The Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. EUTERPE also builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. Since 2006 the GEMMA programme has provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). (Under review)
Start Year 2022
 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) 
Organisation Utrecht University
Country Netherlands 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry Since the last reporting period March 8, 2024: • Professor Katherine Wimpenny continues to contribute to the project as PI for Coventry as part of her role of Professor of Research in Global Education in the Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA). • Dr Jaya Jacobo (Assistant Prof) has been a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting until her departure from Coventry University 17th January 2025. (GLEA went through a period of review, consultation and restructure, which unfortunately led to Jaya's decision to leave the Centre.) • Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has formally joined the supervisory team of our EUTERPE doctorate candidate, Ninutsa Nadirashvili. • Professor Clisby remains a Visiting Professor in GLEA, and as an External Advisor on EUTERPE and is included as a collaborator on this reporting. • The contributions made by our recruited and employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili who started in September 2023 are also included following on from the last reporting period. (March 8, 2024) • Katherine and Jaya have represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. These two bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As Expert Advisor and now also supervisory team member, Suzanne contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. • Katherine, Suzanne and Jaya have contributed into the Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe" to include bio-critical author entries Jaya contributed into this Committee until her recent departure in January.Coventry colleagues have contributed writing on concepts for the Dictionary with 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) and Suzanne writing on 'Gender' . These concepts were submitted for review September 2024. • Bio-critical author entries, as identified and voted for by the Consortium, have been and are being submitted with most recent requests for author entries for submission by end of March 2025. Nina has done two, Katherine is doing one for end of March. • Katherine, Suzanne and Nina have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: o Lodz EUTERPE meeting in action month x (April, 2024) at Lodz (Poland). o CEU Partner meeting, action month x (Sept, 2024), CEU, Vienna • We are currently preparing for the forthcoming ok-Coventry School in May 2025 • Prof Suzanne Clisby with fellow editor Mark Johnson are editors of a Special Issue - in Social Sciences MDPI, " Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Identifying with EUTERPE related themes papers are invited that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore people's everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here, we adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By 'gender' we mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. We see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects. The Special Issue is published online at the point of final acceptance between February and July 2025 and the complete SI will be released in September 2025. Doctorate candidate • Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at GLEA, Coventry. • Ninutsa's PhD study is exploring The Role of Transnational Literatures in the Decolonisation of Understandings of Gender within the European Academe Ninutsa's contributions into the project since last reported include: • Two events attended in the United States (add dates) in collaboration with the Georgian writer Nana Abuladze - sharing Nina's project with the Georgian-American diaspora. • Participation in the Bristol Translates summer school, taking the opportunity to work with leading professionals in the field to translate texts across different literary genres • Presentation at Race XChange and NOG Research Day conferences at the universities of Coventry and Utrecht. • Presentation at the Narratives of Displacement International Conference • Completion of a translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba • Completion of 2nd Annual Report inclusive of the updated Employment Enhancement Plan/Career Development Plan January 10, 2025. • Attended the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) and Autumn School at CEU, Venice (Sept 2024) • Meetings held with Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and continuing propgess on her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission post her 2nd Annual Review (Jan 2025) • Input of Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Achievement of ethics application April 2024 • Conducted fieldwork at the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she has had her secondment for six months from Sept 2024 - February 2025), during this time she participated in both seminars and lectures selected for observation, allowing herself to be challenged, questioned or reassured by the conversations she has had with students and teachers. Plus, actively fostering spaces for sharing and being in community as activities which enabled her a continuous dialogue with all actors, allowing for collaborative initiatives. • Now conducting her fieldwork at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) using similar while contextually relevant and appropriate ethnographic techniques. • Drafting of methodology and concept chapters (03/2025); finalizing methodology and theory chapters (04/2025) • Preparing for her 2nd Year Progress Review Panel to be held in May/June at GLEA, CU 2025 to enable progression in her third year (starting Sept 2025) • Supporting the planning and preparation for the York-CU Spring School in York (05/2025) • Completing 2nd podcast and 2nd book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Conducting Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, taking place over 2 months (spread over 02/2025 - 05/2025). Assist Ra (director of Comma Press) with a variety of projects. • Submitted a co-authored paper currently under review with K. Wimpenny to Social Sciences Special Issue: "Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts" (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). • Submitted abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Working on a short-story or poetry collection with (Coma Press) authors (translation/publication) from occupied territories/nations (Georgia/Ukraine/Palestine). Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, and now with Suzanne through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) and conducting the 2nd Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will has just completed her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry • As mentioned, Prof Suzanne Clisby has joined Nina's supervisory team since February 2025
Collaborator Contribution • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) Since the last reporting period • We continue to work closely with all EUTERPE Consortium members, contributing into the formal project reporting and the tasks and milestones as per the project objectives. • With supervisors at Utrecht University (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we have supported our two doctorate candidates at CU and UU, Nina and Auxi respectively, during their recent 6 month year 2 secondment periods, with Nina at UU and Auxi at GLEA Coventry (dates September 2024 - end of February 2025) • With EUTERPE colleagues at York, we are now planning for the 10 day York-Coventry Summer School in May 2025
Impact This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. New publications since last reporting period which ended March 8, 2024: Published Nadirashvili, N (2024) "Masculinities in the South Caucasus" (to be published in 2024) Co- edited collection of articles and other artistic entries for Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Tbilisi office) that concern masculinities and their presentation in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/05/25/call-contributions-project-exploring-masculinities-south-caucasus Nadirashvili, N (2025) Translation of the writing on the Georgian-German filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili, into English and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Orsini-Jones, M., Jacobs, L., Finardi, K., & Wimpenny, K. (2025). Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 237-252. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438 Sánchez-Espinosa, A. Clisby, S. and Lukic, J. 2024. To be continued: feminist transnational convergences and research alliances. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: gender Response-able labs, B. Revelles-Benavente and A. Sánchez-Espinosa (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp149-166. ISBN: 978-1-032-61677-3 Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024). The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03. Under review /Pipeline Suzanne's Special Issue - Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/U9M67FHK88 Nadirashvili, N. and Wimpenny, K. (2025). Integral Threads and Painful Tears: On transnationalism, transformative pedagogies, and knowledge production in higher education, Social Sciences MDPI, Special Issue on Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Editors, S. Clisby and M. Johnson).
Start Year 2022
 
Description "No one can tell it for you": Queering Georgian lives and literatures 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact On 14/04/2024 and 20/04/2024 in New York, NY, USA and Washington DC, USA
An event organised by the Georgian-American project "Home" - entailing a discussion between Ninutsa Nadirashvili (CU Doctorate Candidate) and Nana Ablaze - a transnational author - speaking about elements of queerness, identity, gender, and more in Georgian/transnational lives and literatures. These are public events directed at Georgian-American migrant and queer communities in New York and Washington DC.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description "The farther you - the closer home gets: Literary gathering" Presentation of Galaktian Tabidze's poems and translations by Ninutsa Nadirashvili (CU Doctorate Candidate) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Hawthorne, New Jersey, United States
25/11/2023
Part of non-academic engagements that concern translation and literature, Ninutsa presented her translations of Georgia's most beloved poet Galaktion Tabidze. This was also accompanied by theatrical readings of his works in Georgian. A public discussion took place afterwards which included a Q&A with the PGR/translator and a collective translating workshop of one of Tabidze's works. This was a public event that welcomed both a migrant and non-migrant audiences.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description A Herstory of Trans Pedagogies in the Philippines, En-Gender Network (Online) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I delivered a keynote on decolonial trans pedagogy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description A Poetics of Transfeminine Becoming 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact I discussed transfemininity, tropicality & becoming around my book Arasahas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Arasahas: A Book Launch (Online) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I launched my book of poetry Arasahas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Close Reading & Comparative Literature, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I was a guest lecturer at the institute's weekly colloquium.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies - Research Day 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact "Deda Didn't Raise No Agent: Reflections on gender, sexuality and Russia's lasting influence in the South Caucasus"
Ninutsa presented a paper on the current political state of the South Caucasus, the cost of Russian- funded hatred.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://graduategenderstudies.nl/nog-research-day-october-19-2024/
 
Description Sisterhood in Action Conference - University of York 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact "Trailers, Traffic Jams, and Tragedies: Examining humour amidst occupation and Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost"
Ninutsa presented a paper that dialogues with Hammad - a transnational writer - about the effect occupation and exile have on the day-to-day lives of individuals and how humour - anecdotes, satire, national jokes, comedic practices - can be an active form of counterstorytelling and fighting back, as well simply surviving.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
URL https://www.york.ac.uk/womens-studies/news-and-events/events/events-2025/feminism-for-the-end-times/
 
Description Tough Chance, Tender Carapace: Towards a Poetics of Filipina/x/o Trans of Colour Creativity, Chelsea College of Arts, London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact I lectured on the theory and practice of Filipina/x/o trans of colour performance through key case studies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Trails and Ruins: Poetry and Poetics of Place, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I read my poetry and discussed poetics with colleagues Johannes Helden and Donna Stonecipher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Trans Pasts, Trans Presents: An Evening of Trans Creative Making, University of Nottingham 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I read poetry and discussed poetics alongside Remi Graves, CN Lester and Onni Gust.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024