Women's Life after the Military: Women Veterans' Transition from Military to Civilian life and Implications for Gender Identity Proposed Supervisor

女性退伍后的生活：女性退伍军人从军队生活到平民生活的过渡以及对性别认同拟议主管的影响

• 批准号: 2430641
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2430641
• 关键词: Women; Life; after; Military; Veterans

My main research objective is to explore the transition of women veterans to civilian life after their military careers. My hypothesis is that there are important gendered aspects to this crucial process. I intend to combine qualitative field research with veterans (via established charities and veteran associations) with theoretical analysis drawn from critical military studies and gender theory more broadly.I intend to conduct a double faceted project. I will conduct interviews with women veterans and discuss their experiences in the military, focusing on how they felt it changed and shaped them and their gender identities. Further, I wish to discover the difficulties they faced during the transition from the military to full time civilian life. What sort of support did they receive, if any?In collaboration with veteran charities, I intend for my project findings to have a constructive impact for better defining the support needed by this community, whilst also providing primary source material on the lived experiences of women veterans in the UK. Whilst centring women's experiences through qualitative research, I plan to analyse this source material through the lense of the current discussion and theory surrounding masculine militarisation and gender theory to see how these lived experiences compare to the theoretical discussion. This presents a dual contribution to the field of Critical Military Studies and gender theory.The research would be conducted over a three-year period. Initially I will conduct a thorough literature review of the current discussion, build relationships with the aforementioned charities and source interviewees. Once the data is gathered, I will begin analysis through the framework of gender theory I will have established and create a project which will benefit the charities in terms of strategizing, funding applications, and possibly setting up new projects. I will write up throughout the project, and in my final year refer back to my interviewees to identify if they have witnessed any positive change since our discussions.

我的主要研究目标是探索女性退伍军人在军事生涯结束后向平民生活的过渡。我的假设是，在这个关键的过程中，存在着重要的性别因素。我打算将对退伍军人的定性实地研究（通过已建立的慈善机构和退伍军人协会）与从批判性军事研究和更广泛的性别理论中得出的理论分析结合起来。我打算进行一个双重的项目。我将对女性退伍军人进行采访，讨论她们在军队中的经历，重点是她们如何感受到它改变和塑造了她们以及她们的性别认同。此外，我希望了解他们在从军人过渡到全职平民生活期间所面临的困难。他们得到了什么样的支持，如果有的话？在与退伍军人慈善机构的合作中，我打算让我的项目发现对更好地定义这个社区所需的支持产生建设性影响，同时也为英国女性退伍军人的生活经历提供主要的原始材料。在通过定性研究集中女性经验的同时，我计划通过当前围绕男性军事化和性别理论的讨论和理论来分析这些原始材料，看看这些生活经验如何与理论讨论进行比较。这对批判性军事研究和性别理论领域有双重贡献。这项研究将进行三年。首先，我将对当前的讨论进行彻底的文献综述，与上述慈善机构和来源受访者建立关系。一旦收集到数据，我将开始通过我建立的性别理论框架进行分析，并创建一个项目，该项目将在战略制定，资助申请以及可能建立新项目方面使慈善机构受益。我会在整个项目中写下来，在我的最后一年，我会回顾我的受访者，看看他们在我们的讨论之后是否见证了任何积极的变化。