The Society for Women in Philosophy, United Kingdom
Welcome to our website! SWIP UK is an organisation of UK women in philosophy, including students and professionals, working within or outside academic departments, which aims to end discrimination against women in philosophy. SWIP has sister-groups worldwide, with hundreds of members and friends within the UK branch. |
Good Practice Scheme.
SWIP UK and the British Philosophical Association are pleased to support the Good Practice Scheme. Its purpose is to improve the environment for, and representation of, women in philosophy.
SWIP UK panel at Joint Session.
Each year SWIP UK hold a panel (and sometimes an information desk) at the host University of the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. Please consider submitting your papers to us!
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Aims and Membership.
SWIP UK have revised the aims and membership criteria to be more inclusive and intersectional. See the 'Who We Are' page for details.
Data Protection Regulation.
By subscribing to SWIP UK, individuals consent to us holding their contact details and we will inform them if these are lost or stolen. Individuals can ask for these details to be erased and we will erase them when their Membership/Friendship elapses or if they have not responded to renewal invitation emails.
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NEWS.
2024-2025:
SWIP AGM:
The 2024 Society for Women in Philosophy Annual Conference was unfortunately unable to be held, but the AGM took place online in December 2024. Minutes will be circulated to members soon. The 2025 conference will be held at LSE on feminist, gender, and queer theory in the context of the contemporary political moment, with LSE organisers Julia Costet and Nadia Ma and SWIP organiser Mridula Sharma, on May 29-30th 2025. A call for papers is here: https://philevents.org/event/show/130962
Executive committee changes:
We thank Katharine Jenkins for having been the director of SWIP UK who will now be joined as co-director with Suki Finn.
We thank Aness Webster who has been leading our mentoring scheme, and to Lucienne Spencer for leading on communications who will from February 2025 take over from Aness as the mentoring lead.
Social media:
For now, we continue to use X (f.k.a Twitter) @SWIPUK but are looking to develop our social media presence and invite volunteers from our membership to coordinate with us on this. Please contact the directors, Suki Finn and Katharine Jenkins, to discuss further.
2024-2025:
SWIP AGM:
The 2024 Society for Women in Philosophy Annual Conference was unfortunately unable to be held, but the AGM took place online in December 2024. Minutes will be circulated to members soon. The 2025 conference will be held at LSE on feminist, gender, and queer theory in the context of the contemporary political moment, with LSE organisers Julia Costet and Nadia Ma and SWIP organiser Mridula Sharma, on May 29-30th 2025. A call for papers is here: https://philevents.org/event/show/130962
Executive committee changes:
We thank Katharine Jenkins for having been the director of SWIP UK who will now be joined as co-director with Suki Finn.
We thank Aness Webster who has been leading our mentoring scheme, and to Lucienne Spencer for leading on communications who will from February 2025 take over from Aness as the mentoring lead.
Social media:
For now, we continue to use X (f.k.a Twitter) @SWIPUK but are looking to develop our social media presence and invite volunteers from our membership to coordinate with us on this. Please contact the directors, Suki Finn and Katharine Jenkins, to discuss further.