MARGINAL RESEARCH:REFLECTIONS ON LOCATION AND REPRESENTATION

The idea for this special edition of the Gender Institute Research-in-Progress series came out of my experiences in the

Gender:Epistemology and Research Methodology course this year. The course seeks to trace a distinct political and intellectual trajectory through the history and current position of western feminist research theory and practice. It is designed to be challenging, predominantly student-led, and focuses on dilemmas arising from questions of location, experience, ethics, representation and reflexivity, as well as methodologies appropriate to resolving or highlighting those dilemmas. And perhaps more importantly, it is the only consistent pedagogical space within the Gender Institute where PhD and Masters students come together to work on shared research problems and form more abiding alliances.