Post by Times Higher Education

After more than 25 years building an academic career researching women’s sexuality, renowned scholar Lisa Diamond lost her NIH grant in the wake of the Trump administration’s sweeping funding cuts. On this week’s Campus Talks podcast, she speaks to Campus deputy editor Eliza Compton about why being a queer researcher in America today ‘means speaking truth to power’ and why data collection is its own form of resistance. Lisa, a distinguished professor in psychology and ethnic, gender and disability studies at the University of Utah and award-winning author, talks about the heartbreak, trauma and chaos that the wave of grant terminations brought about. She explains how her experience under the current US administration has led her to rethink her role as an LGBTQ+ scientist and how she now finds herself giving her students that same kind of cautious career advice she received back in the late 1990s. In November 2025, she and co-principal investigator Scout, a trans researcher from the LGBTQIA+ Cancer Network, launched an unfunded, all-volunteer survey of the LGBTQ+ community that has since grown into an oral history project. Hear all about it in the full interview. https://lnkd.in/e6E6X-Yu #LGBTQ+ #Pride #highereducation