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NamePhD AwardedTitle of DissertationCurrent Position
Florence Waller-Carr2025Feminist futures and transformative potential: The paradoxes of CSOs engagement in shaping the Women, Peace, and Security agendaProject Manager - WPS Helpdesk, Saferworld
Nour Almazidi2025Out of Politics, History, and Time: Stateless Subaltern Struggle, Resistance, and Refusal in the Arabian Peninsula
Luma Mantilla2025The errant worlds of disidencias: sex-gender dissident sense-making practices and counter-normative politics in QuitoVisiting Fellow, Department of Gender Studies, LSE.
Senel Wanniarachchi2025A history and theory of colonial loot: an exploration into “Sri Lankan” artefacts in British museumsVisiting Fellow, Department of Gender Studies, LSE.
Zuzana Dančíková 2024Understanding daddy quotas as a part of the gender structure: The case of the Slovak leave policy for fathersLSE Fellow, Gender, Policy and Inequalities, Department of Gender Studies, LSE (UK).
Claire Wilmot2024"All I have to say": epistemic oppression, agency, and structural power in the wake of reforms to gendered violence lawsVisiting Fellow, Department of Gender Studies, LSE. Writer and tech reporter (UK).
Alia Amirali2024Domestic workers as political subjects: desire, political subjectivation and everyday lives of Islamabad's domestic workersLecturer, Centre of Excellence in Gender Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad (Pakistan).
Alanah Mortlock2024Ambiguities in black: a Black feminist analysis of the post-Dolezalian transracialism discourseLeverhulme Early Career Fellow, King's College London (UK).
Melissa Chacon2023Dissident Narratives of Violence in Colombia: From Armed Conflict to Queer Everyday MulticonflictoResearch and DEI Consultant, Sentiido (Columbia)
Niharika Pandit2022Occupied Lives: A Feminist Enquiry into Everyday Politics of Living under Military Occupation in KashmirLecturer in Sociology at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London (UK)
Tomás Ojeda2022Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Psy Disciplines: Haunting Conflicts in Contemporary ChileESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender, University of Brighton (UK)
Hannah Wright2021The Making of Militarism: Gender, Race and Organisational Cultures in UK National Security PolicymakingLecturer in Global Politics, University of Manchester (UK).
Lindsay Simmonds2020Generating Piety: Agency in the lives of British Orthodox Jewish WomenResearch Officer at the Religion and Global Society Department, LSE (UK).
Billy Holzberg2020Affective Borders: The Emotional Life of the German ‘Refugee Crisis’Lecturer in Social Justice, School of Education, Communication & Society, King's College London (UK).
Priya Raghavan2020Resisting the Binary: Reconciling Victimhood and Agency in Discourses of Sexual ViolenceResearch Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (UK).
Jacqueline Gibbs2019The politics of vulnerability: affect, relationality and resistance in UK AusteritySenior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology and Ciminology, City University London (UK).
Jenny Chanfreau2019Paid work and parenthood: Gender, class and cohort differences in the UKLecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Sussex (UK).
Aiko Holvikivi2019Fixing Gender: the paradoxical politics of peacekeeper trainingAssistant Professor in Gender, Peace and Security, Gender Studies Department, LSE (UK).
Amanda Shaw2018Divergent Economies of Agriculture in Hawai'i: Intersecting Inequalities and the Social Relations of Agrifood WorkExecutive Director, Oahu Agriculture and Conservation Association (USA).
Julia Hartviksen2018Paradoxes of peace: violence against women and femicide in post-war Guatemala’s Franja Transversal del NorteLecturer in Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex (UK).
Aura Lehtonen2018The Sexual and Intimate Life of UK Austerity PoliticsSenior Lecturer in Sociology and Programme Leader for Sociology, University of Greenwich (UK).
Ilana Eloit2018Lesbian Trouble: Feminism, Heterosexuality and the French Nation (1970–1981) Assistant Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Geneva (Switzerland).
Louisa Acciari2018Paradoxes of Subaltern Politics: Brazilian Domestic Workers’ Mobilisations to Become Workers and Decolonise Labour Senior Research Fellow and Co-director of the Centre for Gender and Disaster (UK).
Jacob Breslow2017The theory and practice of childhood: Interrogating childhood as a technology of powerUnknown
Yen Nee Wong2017MPhil thesis: Impact of South Africa's home community-based care on caregiversLecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds (UK).
Magdalena Mikulak2017Politics of Sexuality in Neoliberal(ised) Times and Spaces: the LGBT Movement, Christian LGBT Organising and Reparative Therapy in Contemporary PolandResearch Fellow, Health Research, Lancaster University (UK).
Emma Spruce2017Telling Times: Exploring LGBTQ Progress Narratives in Brixton, South LondonLecturer in Gender, Sexuality and Identity, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool (UK)
Amanda Conroy2016Manning the border: constructions of masculinity, race and threat amongst America's citizen border patrollersLecturer in Sociology, University of Birmingham, (UK).
Alex Hyde2015Inhabiting No-Man's-Land: The Military Mobilities of Army WivesAssociate Professor in Gender Studies and Co-Director of UCL Gender and Sexuality Studies at SELCS-CMII, University College London (UK).
Yang Shen2015Transforming Life in China: Gendered Experiences of Restaurant Workers in ShanghaiAssociate Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China).
Marina Franchi2015Mediated Tensions: Italian newspapers and the legal recognition of de facto unionsSenior Academic Developer, Eden Centre, LSE (UK).
Nicole Shephard2015Beyond Transnationality: a queer intersectional approach to transnational subjectsResearcher, trainer, and consultant (self-employed) (Germany)
Harriet Gray2015Militarism in the Everyday: Responses to Domestic Abuse in the British Armed ForcesSenior Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York (UK)
Alessandro Castellini2014Translating Maternal Violence: The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s JapanGuest Teacher in the Department of Media and Communications at The London School of Economics (UK)
Joanne Kalogeras2014Troubling CosmopolitanismStudent Adviser in Academic and Professional Development at LSE Life (UK)
Jenevieve Mannell2013Practicing Gender: Gender and Development Policy in South African OrganizationsAssociate Professor in the Institute for Global Health, University College of London (UK)
Natasha Marhia2013'Human security', gender, and the policing of everyday violence against women in Delhi.Unknown
Laura Zagrebelsky2012MPhil thesis: Analysis of family law case law in Germany, France, Italy and UK: the paradox of multicultural vulnerabilityDonor Relations Specialist at Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria (Switzerland)
Maria do Mar Pereira2011The Epistemic Status of Women's, Gender, Feminist StudiesCo-Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick (UK)
Patrizia Kokot-Blamey2011Women's experiences of professional advancement in Germany and the United Kingdom: a comparative analysis of the public accountancy professionSenior Lecturer in Organisation Studies, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London (UK)
Gwendolyn Beetham2011Representing Success in Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Programs: A Feminist Ethnography of International Aid and AgenciesAssociate Director, Program in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Francisco Cos-Montiel2011The policy and politics of gender mainstreaming in Mexico. Field, capital and habitusSenior Research Officer in the Gender Justice Programme of United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) (Spain)
Deborah Finding2010Give Me Myself Again': Sexual Violence Narratives in Popular MusicInterim Director of People, Culture & Operations, Galop (UK).
Rebekah Wilson2010A Name of One's Own? Performance, Choice and Negotiation in Marital RelationshipsProgramme Manager (Cyber, Digital and Technology) at the Local Government Association (UK).
Diane Farmer2010Professional and Managerial Black African Women: Johannesburg and London's Emerging and Transnational Elites.Consultant, Delta Alpha Psi & Visiting Fellow, GLIC Cranfield School of Management (UK)
Jane Dennehy2010Gender and competition : a dynamic for managersDirector, Law Incubator (UK).
Carolyn Williams2009Sexuality, Rights and Development: Peruvian Feminist ConnectionsLead Associate and Co-Founder at Professional Diversity Consultants (United Kingdom) & Gender Justice Consultant and Translator at United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (Switzerland).
Christina Scharff2009Young women's dis-identification with feminism: negotiating heteronormativity, neo-liberalism and differenceProfessor of Culture and Subjectivity, Associate Dean for Doctoral Studies, Arts & Humanities, King's College London (UK).
Tamara Herath2008Woman Combatants and Gender Identity in Contemporary Conflicts: The Case of the LTTECentral Justice Manager for a Policing organisation (UK).
JongMi Kim2008Global Media, Audiences & Transformative Identities: Femininities and Consumption in South KoreaSenior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Theory at Coventry University (UK)
Gertrude Fester (deceased)2008Women and Citizenship Struggles: A case study in the Western Cape, South Africa, 1980-2004Previously: Professor in the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Seema Kazi2008Between Democracy and Nation - Gender and Militarization in KashmirAssociate Professor at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, Indian Council of Social Science Research (India)
Nattha Komolvadhin2008Gendering the new economy: implications of the internet on gender relations in Thailand Journalist, Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thailand).
Chinwe Madubuike2008The Politics of Women's Empowerment in Nigerian HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes: 2003-207Unknown
Carolyn Pedwell2007Gender, Cultural Difference and EmbodimentProfessor of Cultural Studies and Media at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent (UK)
Moira Dustin2007Gender equality and cultural claims: testing incompatibility through an analysis of UK policies on minority 'cultural practices' 1997-2007Lecturer in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex (UK)
Henda Ducados2007Mphil:Women in War-Torn Societies: A Study of Households in Luanda's Peri-Urban AreasExternal Relations Manager for Total Angola
Josephine Brain2006Gender performance and sexuality in the anorexic subjectPsychotherapeutic Counsellor at The Practice (UK)
Elisabeth Kelan2006Binary Logic? Doing Gender in Information Communication Technology WorkProfessor of Leadership and Organisation, King's Business School, King's College London (UK).
Anna Coates2006Health, Reproduction and Ethnic/Gender Identity: the case of indigenous women in Amatenango del Valle, Chiapas, MexicoSenior Technical Lead/Unit Head, Gender at the World Health Organization (Switzerland).
Faith Armitage2006The Ideal of Equality: Luck Egalitarianism and Its CriticsAcademic Researcher and Private Tutor - self-employed (UK).
Paul Boyce2005Men who have sex with men in Calcutta: gender, discourse and anthropologyReader in Anthropology and International Development, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex (UK)
Ruri Abe2005Transformation of women's consciousness & the role of the media in modern TurkeyAssociate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Journalism, Sophia University (Japan).
Roona Simpson (deceased)2005Contemporary Spinsterhood in Britain: gender, partnership status and social changePreviously: Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow (UK)
Sally Crook2005The dissonance between the rhetoric and reality of health policy and service delivery: a case study of gender and primary health care in Gwassi, KenyaProgramme and Project Management Consultant - self-employed (UK)
Róisín Ryan-Flood2004Disruptive (M)Others: lesbian parenting in Sweden and IrelandProfessor of Sociology and and Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship (CISC) at the University of Essex (UK)
Hiroko Shiraishi2004Gender Inequality in Japan, 1975-2000:Individual Preferences and Social Norms of Care Work Unknown
Silvia Posocco2004Secrecy, Subjectivity and Sociality: an ethnography of conflict in Petén, Guatemala (1999-2000)Reader in Social Anthropology, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck University (UK)/
Maki Kimura2003Modernity, Testimonies, and Women's Agency: The Issue of "Comfort Women" in the Second World WarAssociate Professor (Teaching) in Gender and Politics at the Department of Political Science, University College London (UK)/
Karen Throsby2002"Calling it a day": the decision to end IVF treatmentProfessor of Gender Studies at the University of Leeds (UK).
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou2001For the love of women: gender and gay identity in a Greek provincial townProfessor in the Department of Anthropology, Durham University (UK)
Lori Handrahan2001Gender and Ethnicity in Transitional DemocraciesHumanitarian and Gender-based Violence Consultant - self-employed
Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer1999The meaning of kin work in relation to German women's life historiesProfessor of Gender Studies, Charles University (Czech Republic)
Carolina Smith1999Impact of maquila industry on women and family in Mexican state of ChihuahuaSociologist and Director of Cappuccino Research Ltd (UK).