Attend QUAL Lab Speaker Series with Kelly Guyotte on Feb. 26

• Date: Wednesday, Feb. 26
• Time: 11 a.m.-noon.
• Location: Zoom (register today)
• Presenter: Kelly Guyotte, Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling, University of Alabama College of Education

Join the UGA qualitative research program for the UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series, “The Home/Work of Academic Mothers: Storying Feminist and Artful Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry,” presented by Kelly Guyotte.

In “Living a Feminist Life,” Sara Ahmed explains, “To bring feminist theory home is to make feminist work in the places we live, the places we work. When we think of feminist theory as homework, the university too becomes something we work on as well as at.” This presentation tells the stories of two recent studies–one that explored how academic mothers navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, and an ongoing study on how academic mothers negotiate pregnancy to postpartum within and alongside academia. Both studies center feminist theories and artful inquiry approaches, drawing inspiration from scholars like Sara Ahmed and even the speculative fiction work of Ursula K. Le Guin. In this presentation, Guyotte will unpack both studies, storying the theoretical/methodological decisions that she and her research teams made (and are making) and exploring what is produced when home and work collide.

Please contact associate professor Maureen Flint with questions or for more information.