Maud Perrier - website compiler

Maud Perrier was born in France and has studied English at the University of Nottingham (BA) and Gender Studies at the University of Warwick (MA). She is currently in the second year of her PhD in the in the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. Her thesis is entitled 'Choosing/Risking the 'Right' Time: A comparative study of Younger and older Mothers in the UK' and investigates how these womens' reproductive biographies represent a challenge to normative narratives of appropriately timed motherhood. She teaches on the Department of Sociology's undergraduate course 'Transformations: Gender, Reproduction and Contemporary Society'. Maud’s research interests centre around contemporary feminist theory, cultural studies and the family. She has presented papers about her MA and PhD research at the National Postgraduate Gender Conference and the BSA’s Risk and Society Conference. In 2005 she collaborated in a research project in the Reinvention centre which explored gender transformations in Higher education and specifically feminist activism within and beyond the University. This has led to two publications: a joint authored article in Sociological Research Online and an online article in the Media&Culture Journal. In December 2006 she co-organised a postgraduate conference entitled ‘Identities: Negotiations in Contemporary Spaces’ funded by the ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme.