Serving with Equity: Women’s Voices in the Uniformed Public Services
31 March/1 April 2026
The Centre for Military Women’s Research and the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Uniformed Public Services (CEEUPS) held a joint conference in spring 2026, themed around women’s experiences in the military and uniformed public services. The conference took place over two days, with two parallel programmes on the first day: one with a military theme (with a keynote by Dr Maya Eichler), and one focused on uniformed public services (with a keynote by Dr Camilla De Camargo). The second day included a keynote by Dany Cotton, followed by a choice of four panel discussions on a variety of themes, ending with a review and plenary.
Some of the presentations from the conference can be accessed by clicking the speaker names below:
CMWR stream
| Linna Tam-Seto: Where service meets motherhood: A scoping review of the intersectionality of parenting and military service identities |
| Elin Anita Fadum: Congenital anomalies among infants of Norwegian military mothers: A nationwide study (1969–2021) |
| Rachelle Vessey: Gendered discourse and sexual harm in Canadian military discourse: Insights from the field of linguistics |
| Nancy Taber and Ash Grover: Storied experiences of Canadian women military veterans in expressive writing workshops: Counter-narratives for military culture change |
| Nancy Taber, Hannah West, Annie Geisow and Ashleigh Percival-Borley: ‘We are here’: Military women voicing their gendered stories |
CEEUPS stream
| Camilla De Camargo: Boobs, Bums and Body Armour: Results from the National Police Uniform and Equipment Survey |
| Joan Roa-Natividad: Feminisation as a legal and social mandate. How to reimagine our security and emergency organisations? A hands-on approach to the Catalan strategy |
| Emily Rowe: When pain doesn’t count: Imposter trauma, gender, and the hidden hierarchies of harm in uniformed service |
| Aarya Menon: Identifying the occupational experiences of women in male-dominated workplaces: A systematic review |
| Joy MacDermid and Robin Campbell Bromhead: Building the women in Firefighting Health Research Network: Advancing women firefighter health, wellbeing, and international collaboration |
| Chris Webber: Integrating and flourishing in a man’s world of the fire and rescue service: A scoping review |