Psychology
Psychology +3
Social and Organisational Psychology, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter
Start date: September 2023
Research topic: Supporting the T in LGBT: Increasing Motivation for Collective Action for the Transgender Community Among Cisgender Sexual Minorities by Highlighting Shared Disadvantage
Whilst cisgender LGB+ people have seen some triumphs in their fight for equality, transgender individuals lag behind. The nested structure of the LGBT community leads to conflict and tension between the subgroups, creating an unexpected source of resistance to support transgender rights among LGB+ people. This creates a divide, with some LGB+ individuals engaging in collective action for the T and others advocating against the T. My research aims to explore this resistance by investigating the roles of shared disadvantage, perceived similarity, and intergroup contact in motivating collective action to understand how to increase support for the T in LGBT.
Research supervisors: Dr Christopher Begeny, Prof Manuela Barreto
Email: hks213@exeter.ac.uk