As a senior lecturer in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, I teach honours and Masters courses on the Politics and International Relations degree and I also teach on the Masters in Applied Gender Studies.

My research looks broadly at feminism and social movement politics: I am interested in the theory and practice of Western feminism, on the one hand, and the gender politics and role of feminism in a range of contemporary movements, on the other.  With a recurrent focus on transnational organising and solidarity relationships, and on how activists rework political concepts and theories, my work bridges critical International Relations, political theory, gender studies and sociological social movement studies. In the early part of my career, I focused on feminism in the global justice movement, and more broadly on feminist activism in and against neoliberalism. More recently, I have published on the gendered and feminist politics of protest camps, and I have been developing a decolonial feminist research programme on (anti)nuclear politics. 

I am active in several international feminist academic networks. A long-term member of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies section of the International Studies Association, I have been on the executive committee since 2017 and am programme co-chair for 2020-21, along with Catherine Goetze. I was co-editor of the International Feminist journal of Politics 2006-11, with Sandra Whitworth and Teresia Teaiwa, and remain a member of the international editorial board. I am also a member of AtGender and the Feminist and Women's Studies Association, UK, as well as of the European International Studies Association, the European Conference on Politics and Gender, and the Gendering IR working  group of the British International Studies Association. 

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My main research interests hinge on:

• feminist theory and practice, particularly theoretical debates around democracy, intersectionality, solidarity, co-optation and resistance; and particularly the empirical contexts of the UK, transnational activism and institutions of global governance.
• the gender politics of, and role of feminism in, social movements more generally, particularly  anti-nuclear and anti-austerity organising, and protest camps.

I teach the honours level class L2421 Feminism and Politics, and the MSc International Relations classes, L2964 Debating International Relations Theory (with Max Gallop and Richard johnson) and L2965 Feminism and International Relations. In addition, I contribute to classes and supervision on the MSc in Applied Gender Studies. In April-July 2020, I took up a Guest Professorship at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, where I taught  Introduction to the Methods and Theories of Gender Studies, and I am currently participating in an international project entitled Decolonizing the Nuclear Curriculum, as part of the team developing an open-access module on perspectives from feminism, queer scholarship and disability studies.

I welcome applications for PhDs in the following areas:

1) the theory and practice of contemporary feminist movement (particularly theoretical debates around democracy, intersectionality, solidarity, co-optation and resistance; and particularly the empirical contexts of the UK, transnational networks, and institutions of global governance); and

2) the gender politics and role of feminism in other social movements (particularly peace, anti-nuclear and anti-austerity activism, and the independence movement in Scotland)