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I'm your host, Holly Murphy.

This podcast celebrates the fantastic feminist, sex and gender-related research happening here at York St John University.

As well as finding out more about the exciting research being done, we hope to help demystify academia and soften institutional hierarchies by discussing guests' own experiences and journeys into academia.

Let's make academia feel a little bit less intimidating and a little bit more human.

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Today's conversation is with Alison Phipps.

Alison is a professor of political sociology and associate head of SPIRE, social sciences, politics, international relations and religion here at York St John University.

We're really interested to hear more about Alison's new book, which is entitled Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism.

Who doesn't love a bargain? And in this special episode, we're going to be looking particularly at the Battle of Basarco.

And we have a very special guest with us, good old friend of the show, Dr. Graham Callister, Senior Lecturer of History and War Studies at the University of York St. John.

He's written several notable books on warfare, including Battle, Understanding Conflict from Hastings to Helmand.

and the Waterloo, the attack of First Corps.

I'm your host, Holly Murphy.

This podcast celebrates the fantastic feminist, sex and gender-related research happening here at York St John University.

As well as finding out more about the exciting research being done, we hope to help demystify academia and soften institutional hierarchies by discussing guests' own experiences and journeys into academia.

Let's make academia feel a little bit less intimidating and a little bit more human.

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This has been the Behind the Research podcast.

This podcast was funded by York St John University QR funding.

I've been your producer and host Holly Murphy

team to four team

We've got the Hull Sharks, we've got the Lincoln Colonels, the Sunderland Spartans and the York St John Jaguars.

Lads, talk to me about this one.

How do you even approach talking about a four-team division?

Yeah, absolutely.

Um, so I completed my PGCE at York St John University.

I qualified as a teacher back in 2008.

Um, so I started working as an NQT at Marshfield Primary School, which is actually one of the schools that's in the trust.

One of the big seeds for the idea of the book came from my middle one.

She was at a university open day at York St. John's University, and she ended up doing drama and English there.

So we sat through this drama presentation, and the head of the drama department, as he came on to do his talk about the courses at York St. John's, Said, right, where does your relationship with a piece of theatre start? Does your relationship start when the actors start speaking on stage? Or does it start when the curtains open? Or does it start when you take a seat? Does your relationship with that piece of theatre start when you walk through the theatre doors? Does it start when you decide what to wear? Does it start when you buy your tickets? Or does it start when you look through the listings and work out what it is you are going to see? And that, my mind just went straight into, when does a delegate's relationship start with a training course? So this was back in 2010.

So training was a much, much more commonly used word then.

Well, so I listened to your fire walk with me episodes and Curtis mentioned the zine that I'm putting together, which is interesting hearing you're going to, you're, working on one as well, John.

We have a hauntology and spectrality research group at York St. John University.

There's another podcast diving into what on earth hauntology means.

But we decided we were going to put together a zine looking at representations of madness and medicine in horror cinema.