In this PhD panel, Zuzana Dancikova and Niharika Pandit present their doctoral research and reflect more specifically on the methodological and epistemic implications of undertaking feminist research in diverse disciplinary as well geographic contexts. Zuzana's research focuses on the uptake and use of leave policy by fathers in Slovakia, foregrounding the role of gender in shaping parents' decision-making. Niharika's project analyses everyday politics of living under military occupation in Kashmir.
Zuzana Dancikova: To leave or not to leave: Gender as a multi-level factor shaping fathers' leave-uptake in Slovakia
Zuzana Dančíková is in the fourth year of her ESRC-funded PhD . Focusing on father’s leaves in Slovakia, she explores the potential of policy to affect the sharing of paid and unpaid labor, and the factors moderating that potential. Zuzana previously worked as an analyst for the Slovak Ministry of Finance and Transparency International and holds master's degrees from the LSE and the Masaryk University.
Niharika Pandit: Everyday politics of living under military occupation in Kashmir
Niharika is a fourth year LSE-funded doctoral researcher at LSE Gender. Her PhD is an ethnographic inquiry into everyday politics of living under military occupation in Kashmir and explores questions of space, time, embodiment and counterpolitics. Niharika graduated as a Felix scholar of MA Gender Studies from SOAS, University of London and holds a bachelor’s in mass media and journalism from Sophia College, University of Mumbai.