Graduate research
Candidates undertaking Monash University’s Graduate research degrees are challenged to apply new thinking to interpret – and solve – complex questions. Within the XYX Lab, investigations are currently underway on a range of issues in feminist and queer theory.
Enira Arvanda
Isabella Webb
Opportunities
Join the XYX Lab – Gender + Place graduate research cohort. Refer to the links below for information on how to apply.
- Applications now open
- Scholarships may be available
- Undertaken with: XYX Lab – Gender + Place, Associate Professor Nicole Kalms, Dr Gill Matthewson,
Gender and crime in cities
Urban designers, architects and planners have key roles in making safe and inclusive places, with urban safety guidelines and crime prevention tactics foundational to safe environments. The XYX Lab are looking for projects that reduce the risks of spatial inequality in communities.
- Applications now open
- Scholarships may be available
- Undertaken with: XYX Lab – Gender + Place, Associate Professor Nicole Kalms, Dr Gill Matthewson, Associate Professor Gene Bawden, Associate Professor Jess Berry,
Gender and night-time economies
The XYX Lab is seeking proposals that examine the confluence of factors that contribute to gendered experiences of the night-time economy – both in spatial design and visual communication design – and the role they play as a cultural and social practice that can contribute to challenging power relations within cities, and consequently to women’s feelings of safety within them.
- Applications now open
- Scholarships may be available
- Undertaken with: XYX Lab – Gender + Place, Associate Professor Nicole Kalms, Dr Gill Matthewson,
Mapping gender in cities
Geolocative mapping has become a useful way to create and share content, and to shed light on hidden experiences in cities. While digital technologies are implicated in public surveillance, there are opportunities to use social media to shape the everyday practices of urban life. The capacity for geolocative to be deployed as a valid design research method has been underestimated. A strong PhD proposal will advance knowledge of the social inequity of women, gender-diverse and/or other marginalised groups using innovative methods.
- Applications now open
- Scholarships may be available
- Undertaken with: XYX Lab – Gender + Place, Associate Professor Nicole Kalms, Dr Gill Matthewson,
Women and housing
The XYX Lab seeks PhD proposal across the broad theme of 'Women and Housing' with the aim to expand the understanding of spaces for women, by women and the significance of gender in designing for women. The PhD proposal will focus on the crisis of accommodation for women in Australia and the scale of domestic abuse faced by women, and well as broad issues of women's safety and security.