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Call for Papers: EuroBiReCon Amsterdam July 2016

15/07/2015byDr Caroline Walters

Bisexuality and (Inter)National Research Frontiers

First European Bisexual Research Conference (EuroBiReCon)EuroBiReCon is a conference for anyone with an interest in contributing to, or finding out about, current work on bisexuality. The conference aims to bring together academics, professionals, activists, and bisexual communities. It builds on BiReCons held in the UK every two years organised by BiUK (www.biuk.org) – see the BiUK website for information about past BiReCons. This year it will take place onThursday 28 July 2016 at the University ofAmsterdam,which will be followed by a three day community organised event (EuroBiCon).

We proudly announce that Prof. Surya Monro (University of Huddersfield) will be the keynote speaker at the EuroBiReCon. She has written multiple books on sexual diversity includingGender politics: Activism, citizenship and sexual diversity(2005) andSexuality, Equality and Diversity (2012 with Diana Richardson). Her book Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and Theories is due to be published in 2015.

We welcome papers from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines including social sciences, health sciences, arts and humanities, therapeutic practitioners, activists and others. We encourage contributions from postgraduate students, early career academics and more senior academics from Europe and beyond.

We invite papers and workshop sessions that include but are not limited to the following:

Bisexuality, wellbeing and health (including mental health and sexual health).
The implications of bisexual identities and labels.
Bisexuality, space and communities.
Bisexual people’s access to, and experiences of,health and other services.
Inclusion and erasure of bisexual people in politics and activism.
Representations of bisexuality in media, culture, and literature.
Intersections with other aspects of experience such as physical disability, age, race/ethnicity, nationality, gender (both trans- and cis-gender), sexual practices, religion, education and social class.
Bisexuality and relationship styles (e.g. monogamies, polyamory, swinging, open couples and non-monogamies).
The role of technologies in bisexuality and forming bisexual spaces and communities
Methods for researching bisexuality
Public engagement in bisexuality research.

During the day there will be opportunities to:

Find out about issues affecting bisexual people
Hear from experts about cutting-edge research on bisexuality
Discuss ways in which organisations can better work with, and for, bisexual people, drawing on good practice
Take part in workshops on specific issues

If you would like to present at EuroBiReCon, please provide a250 word abstract and a brief biography (max. 100 words), by 26^th February 2016 to Emiel Maliepaard (e.maliepaard1@gmail.com) and Dr Caroline Walters (carolinejwalters@gmail.com).

If you are interested in facilitating a workshop, roundtable, or panel discussion at BiReCon, which can include data gathering for current projects or research, then please email Emiel Maliepaard (e.maliepaard1@gmail.com) and Dr Caroline Walters (carolinejwalters@gmail.com) with a brief description of your proposed session by 22 January 2016.

Language: For logistical reasons, the conference’s common language will be English, and abstracts must be submitted in English. If you wish, you can send us your abstract in another language, provided that you also submit it in English. It is highly recommended that presentations during the conference are in English. However, we are exploring possibilities to use translators to provide space to people who would like to present in their mother tongue.

Funding: EuroBiCon and EuroBiReCon are community organisations so unfortunately there are no funds for presenters or travel expenses. However, EuroBiReCon will provide an excellent opportunity to network with others working in the field, to share good practice, and there will be spaces available to conduct research which fits within the ethos of the event.

Filed underResearchTagged withactivism,BiReCon,bisexual,bisexuality,BiUK,event,intersectionality,LGBTQ,research

BiUK interviews

23/07/2014byMeg-John Barker

BiUK members have taken part in a couple of interviews during the last week that you might find interesting.

Meg Barker was interviewed by biscuit magazinehere.

Caroline Walters was interview by BiCasthere.

Filed underActivism,Community,MediaTagged withBiReCon,bisexuality,BiUK,gender

Minister acknowledges work with bi communities in addressing mental health challenges

13/07/2014byMeg-John Barker

Helen Grant (The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport) was recently asked what discussions the UK Government Equalities Office has had with LGBT mental health service providers in the last year. Here is her response (reposted from www.theyworkforyou.com):

Ministers and officials from the Government Equalities Office regularly meet a broad range of LGB&T stakeholders, including mental health providers and other organisations with an interest in this area, to discuss key issues and priorities for the sector. Topics raised include the mental health needs of LGB&T individuals, areas of discrimination and issues with service provision.
In the last year, officials have met with organisations with an interest in this area including: the Albert Kennedy Trust, Bi Community News, Bisexual Index, BiUK, Broken Rainbow, GALOP, GIRES, METRO Centre, PACE, Press for Change, Stonewall, Stonewall Housing, The Lesbian and Gay Foundation (LGF), The LGBT Consortium, and The National LGB&T Partnership. The LGBT Consortium, the National LGB&T Partnership and BiUK are umbrella organisations who raise issues on behalf of their wider membership. Officials also sit on the Parliamentary Forum on Gender Identity where mental health issues are regularly raised. Officials have also had meetings with NHS England andPublic Health England at which they have discussed mental health issues.
In the last year, the Minister for Sport, Tourism and Equalities met representatives from the Lesbian and Gay Foundation, LGB&T Consortium, PACE Health, Stonewall, Broken Rainbow, the METRO Centre, and BiUK on 10 October 2013; and representatives from GIRES, Gendered Intelligence and the Gender Identity Clinic in Hammersmith on 15 October 2013.
On 12 June 2014 the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport visited Birmingham LGBT Centre which hosts mental health services. The Secretary of State also met leading LGB&T representatives on 30 June 2014 including Stonewall, Lesbian and Gay Foundation, LGB&T Consortium, GIRES, and Gendered Intelligence. Health issues were discussed at all events.

Filed underActivism,CommunityTagged withBiUK,LGBT,mental health

Same-sex marriage – inclusions & exclusions

23/07/2013byMeg-John Barker

Same-sex marriage – inclusions & exclusions.

Filed underActivism,CommunityTagged with'same-sex' marriage,BiUK,downing street

BiReCon goes stateside

03/06/2013byMeg-John Barker

BiReCon – the bisexuality academic/community conference set up by BiUK – has its first US outing this Friday with a day of events preceding the the 21st Annual BECAUSE (Bisexual Empowerment Conference: A Uniting Supportive Experience). Meg Barker from BiUK will be keynoting the event and hoping to learn about the differences and similarities between UK and US bisexual communities in the process. Many thanks to theAmerican Institute of Bisexuality for flying them over for the event.

BiReConUSA organiser – and longterm friend of BiUK – Dr. Alex Iantaffi added, “This year, with the addition of BiReConUSA, we are excited to expand our conference mission to include a focus on ‘bringing together members of the [academic] research and bisexual communities to help shape future research that will further the understanding and acceptance of bisexuality.'”

You can read all about the US BiReCon and BECAUSE conferences inThis Article and see the BECAUSE websitehere.

Below is a picture of the craft materials I used for my creative methods workshop at BiReConUSA.

Filed underActivism,Community,Events,ResearchTagged withAIB,Alex Iantaffi,BECAUSE,BiReCon,BiUK,US

BiCon 2011 Research Workshop

22/01/2012byMeg-John Barker

Originally published in Bi Community News, Oct 2011, issue 109

At BiCon this year BiUK held a workshop to talk about the various projects we’ve been working on during the last year. It felt great to be able to completely fill a workshop with our activities, and a good sign that BiUK is going from strength to strength following its formation in 2007. Here’s a quick overview of what we covered in the workshop. Over subsequent issues of BCN we will fill you in with more details on all of the projects.

BiUK History
BiUK formed in 2007 at a stage when the number of active people researching bisexuality in the UK reached something of a critical mass. A group of us had just had a paper about the BiCon survey accepted by the international Journal of Bisexuality, and Libby had talked us into putting on a research event prior to BiCon 2008 (which she cunningly named BiReCon). We’d been running an email list for some years which had evolved from its original yahoo list format, BiBlio, into the official JISCmail Bi Research Group. At that time we put up a small website to collect together all these things and put together a list of official ‘founder members’.

BiUK

27/08/2011byUser

Welcome to BiUK, the national organisation for bisexual research and activism.

We were founded in 2007. Since then we have run twoBiReCon events: a national one in 2008 and an international one in 2010. We have developedguidelinesfor researchers and writers on bisexuality. Between us, we have published severalpapers and chapters relating to aspects of bisexuality. We are currently working on areportdocumenting the issues faced by bisexual people in the UK.

Filed underEvents,ResearchTagged withactivism,BiReCon,bisexuality,BiUK,research

"Bi people make up the largest part of the LGBT community. Sadly ... their experiences are rarely represented or considered at all." Stonewall, UK.

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