Gender and Development

Gender and Development (GAD) is dedicated to producing and promoting research on social change and development processes from a gender perspective. Framed within the context of globalisation, our research aims to scrutinise critically the structural level of development policies and practice, and at the same time focus on processes of change from below, including grassroots mobilisation. Current and recent research projects include studies of gender in development policy and practice; democratisation, corporate capitalism and development; attitudes towards violence against women; gender, poverty and power; reproductive health and performance-based services; youth, social transformation and gendered futures, including the role of girls’ education in development. The geographical areas of our current research span India, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Tunisia and the Czech Republic.

The academic staff belongs to the research group Multicultural Venues in Health, Gender and Social Justice

GAD is responsible for an international Masters in Gender and Development, a M.Phil programme which aims to enable students to understand the significance of gender for development policy and projects and to use gender as a problematized analytical category in their own research.