The seminar series aims to:

• Provide a forum for debate and an exchange of ideas with key stakeholders across different sectors
• Bring together representatives from these sectors with established and early career researchers and academics
• Harmonise efforts to raise awareness of LGBT issues across academia, policy and practice in Scotland
• Broker strategic partnerships and develop a Scottish strategy for collaboration across research, policy and practice
• Identify new and upcoming issues and examine these in a multidisciplinary context
• Promote the integration of transgender issues and interests into the current research, policy and practice agenda on sexualities
• Explain and explore a range of methods and innovative approaches to the study of sexuality and gender identity