Peer Support Network

This transnational network brings together Doctoral and other Early Career Researchers from four of the nodal points in the DoingIPS network: Belgium, Brazil, the Netherlands, and the UK. Participants work in small groups based on research interests, themes, and affinities. These collaborations include: peer-support  sessions on publications and grants-writing, drafts exchanges and focused feedback, collective writing, and the co-organisation of panels and roundtables at international conferences.

The initiative originated at the first DoingIPS Spring Symposium in 2023, as a follow up activity to a British Academy Writing Workshop Grant (WW20200143). Since then, participants have been meeting up twice in plenary sessions to discuss the planning and activities of the Peer Support Network, as well as spontaneously, in small groups for the collaborative sessions described above.

Existing groups are as follow:

Post-colonial theory, ethnicity, migration, and identity

Shruit Balaji (LSE), Aine Bennett (RHUL), Aida Hassan (QMUL), Francisco Eduardo Lemos de Matos (PUC-Rio), Meena Masood (QMUL), Christoffer Guldberg (KCL)

Space- and Time-making

Paulo Chamon (PUC-Rio), Hannah Owens (RHUL), Mirko Palestrino (QMUL), Renata Summa (Groningen), Francine Rossone (PUC-Rio)

Politics of security and military technologies of empire

Zeger Verleye (Antwerp), Italo Brandimarte (Cambridge), Dalia Saris (QMUL), and Woohyeok Seo (LSE)

Should you be interested in joining the network, please get in touch with the members of the relevant group, or contact Hannah Owens and Mirko Palestrino to enquire about setting up a new one.