Gender & politics Network

About

The Gender and Politics Network was created to provide a platform for scholars and other professionals who share an interest in issues and debates around gender and politics.

The group’s aims are:

To promote the study of gender and politics within mainstream political science and other related disciplines.
To build a network of scholars interested in investigating the different aspects of the relationship between gender and politics.
To have a direct and real impact on the practice, teaching and the study of politics.
To provide a platform for exchange and facilitate contact and communication between scholars engaged in the study of gender and politics.
To facilitate research co-operation on topics in the areas of gender and politics, by promoting equality in the profession.
To organise, initiate and invite contributions on gender politics at the NZPSA conferences, workshops and other events, as well as awarding prizes.

Members

Jennifer Curtin - j.curtin@auckland.ac.nz feminism, gender, political institutions, careers, leadership and voting behaviour
Heather Devere – Heather.Devere@otago.ac.nz women, politics and friendship; gender and the media; gender in peace and conflict studies
Sylvia Frain - sylviacfrain@gmail.com indigenous women’s resistance to political colonisation and American militarisation in the Marianas Archipelago
Lara Greaves – Lara.Greaves@auckland.ac.nz gender, sexuality and political identity; statistical models of voter preference and turnout
Bronwyn Hayward – Bronwyn.hayward@canterbury.ac.nz women, youth, political participation and civic engagement
Janine Hayward - Janine.Hayward@otago.ac.nz Gender and local government, Treaty of Waitangi politics, NZ Constitutionalism
Priya Kurian - pkurian@waikato.ac.nz (Women’s Caucus Rep, Co-editor Women Talking Politics), women, feminism, gender and culture, development and environment
Suzanne Loughlin - suzanne.loughlin@gmail.com Feminism, peacekeeping, interventions, foreign aid, international humanitarian and development practice
Sally Morrison - Sally.Morrison@gmail.com women, gender and security studies
Gauri Nandedkar - ln35@students.waikato.ac.nz intersections of policy, adolescent girls and empowerment programmes
Lena Tan - Lena.Tan@otago.ac.nz Feminism, constructivism, postcolonial approaches to international relations, decolonization, development & aid, Indonesian security and foreign policy
Tidavadee Tongdethsri - tt125@students.waikato.ac.nz Gender and environment, climate change, democracy, developing countries, social development

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