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

我的主要研究目标是探索女性退伍军人的过渡到平民生活后，他们的军事生涯。我的假设是，在这个关键过程中有重要的性别方面。我打算将联合收割机与退伍军人定性实地研究（通过建立慈善机构和退伍军人协会）结合起来，从批判性军事研究和性别理论中得出更广泛的理论分析。我将与女性退伍军人进行采访，并讨论他们在军队中的经历，重点是他们如何感受到它改变和塑造了他们和他们的性别认同。此外，我希望发现他们在从军队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？与退伍军人慈善机构合作，我打算让我的项目调查结果产生建设性的影响，更好地定义这个社区所需的支持，同时也提供了关于英国女性退伍军人生活经历的主要来源材料。同时集中妇女的经验，通过定性研究，我计划通过目前的讨论和理论，围绕男性军事化和性别理论，看看这些生活经验相比，理论讨论，分析这个源材料。这是对批判性军事研究和性别理论领域的双重贡献，研究将持续三年。首先，我将对当前的讨论进行彻底的文献回顾，与上述慈善机构和受访者建立关系。一旦收集到数据，我将开始通过性别理论的框架进行分析，我将建立和创建一个项目，这将有利于慈善机构的战略，资金申请，并可能建立新的项目。我将在整个项目中进行写作，并在最后一年回顾我的受访者，以确定他们是否目睹了自我们讨论以来的任何积极变化。

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.