Prior to joining the Centre for WPS, Caroline held various policy and campaign roles on women’s rights including at Oxfam, Wateraid, Gender Action for Peace and Security and worked as a consultant for an international project to promote gender in humanitarian action led by UN Women. She worked with Control Arms and feminist organisations to secure the inclusion of a gender-based violence provision within the UN Arms Trade Treaty in 2013.

She recently completed an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Department of International Relations at LSE, to develop a monograph following the completion of her PhD with the Department of International History also at LSE in 2020. Her research focuses on the intersection of colonialism and women’s rights at the UN and the way in which colonial powers sought to slow the cascade of international norms on women’s rights in the mid-twentieth century. It also follows the evolution of the women’s rights in development debates at the UN in the 1960s and in the UN Decade for Women 1975-1985.

Caroline also completed her Masters at LSE (Msc Theory and History of International Relations) and holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Somerville College, Oxford Univers