It gives us great pleasure to announce the first of our keynote speakers. Nel Whiting is a Learning and Development Coordinator with Scottish Women's Aid. This means that she teaches various professionals (such as police officers) about domestic violence, and how women in such situations can best be supported. Nel has taken this approach to learning into the academy through her teaching on the Gender Justice, Masculinities and Violence module at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. She studied for a Masters in Women, Culture and Society at the University of Dundee and won the Leah Leneman essay prize 2010 (awarded every two years by Women's History Scotland) for an essay based on her dissertation.
We are very excited to be welcoming Nel back to Dundee. Her work shows such a commitment to the fight for women's safety and happiness, both inside and outside of the academy. We hope that Nel's perspective, as an activist and an academic, will help us to connect the narratives of these two different discourses.
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