Academic Staff - G Waylen

Professor Georgina Waylen, BA (Manchester), MA (Manchester), PhD (CNAA)

Professor

Telephone: +44 (0)114 222 1668
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 1717
Room: 1.24 Elmfield
Feedback & Consultation hours: Wednesday 1600 - 1700 and Thursday 1000 - 1100

Email : g.waylen@sheffield.ac.uk

Profile

Georgina Waylen graduated from the University of Manchester with a BA (econ) Hons in Politics and Economics in 1981 and completed an MA in Political Development there in 1983. She then worked on a PhD on the political economy of Jamaica while a research assistant at Huddersfield Polytechnic. In 1988 she became a Lecturer in Politics at the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia and between 1989 and 1994 she was a lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. In 1994 she moved to a Lectureship in Politics at the University of Sheffield and in 2008 she was promoted to Professor.

Teaching

I teach on a range of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels related to gender as well as comparative politics and international political economy. The modules I teach try to encourage students to think of subjects from an interdisciplinary perspective, using a range of tools and approaches. I use a research-led teaching style, introducing students to current themes and ideas within my specialist subject areas. For example in my undergraduate module I am keen to get students to interrogate the very different ways that men and women are affected by the mutliple processes associated with globalization. As often as possible I use examples and case studies from around the world, including Latin America and Southern Africa, to do this. At master's level students investigate transitions to democracy and the factors that affect whether or not those transitions will result in the establishment of 'successful' democracies. I also lead a methods module that is open to any research student who is undertaking their research using a gendered perspective. My teaching primarily involves seminars, workshops and individual supervision.

Georgina teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including:

POL 336 Women and Politics

POL 6150 Democratization

GSS 608 Doing Gendered Research

Recent Invited Papers and Keynote Lectures

• 2011 Plenary Speaker 'Gender, Globalization and Change' ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, August
• 2011 Keynote speaker at Conference on 'Gender, Institutions and Transitions', Institute for Transitional Justice, University of Ulster, May
• 2011 'Redesigning Institutions at Redesigning Global Governance for Gender Justice workshop, Governance Programme, European University Institute, Florence, Feb.
• 2011 Gender and the Core Executive workshop, University of Manchester, January
• 2009 'Women and Democracy', at Women in Politics: Global Perspectives Conference, Mershon Center for International Security, Ohio State University, April.

Professional activities and recognition

• 2010 Elected to the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS).
• 2009- Member of Peer review college of Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
• 2008 Victoria Schuck Award, from the American Political Science Association for Engendering Transitions: Women's Mobilization, Institutions and Gender Outcomes (Oxford University Press) for the best book published on Women and Politics in 2007.
• 2006- Co-founder and Director (with colleagues from Sydney, Washington St Louis and Edinburgh) of Feminism and Institutionalism International Network (FIIN) - see www.femfiin.com.
• 2005- Co-founder and Convenor of the Interdisciplinary Social Science Gender Research Network, University of Sheffield.

Current Research

Georgina's main research interests are in the fields of political economy/comparative politics, with a focus on gender and politics, international political economy, transitions to democracy, governance and institutions. Over the last two decades she has engaged in extensive research on various aspects of gender and transitions to democracy, culminating in a book, Engendering Transitions, published in 2007. Since 2007, together with Professor Shirin Rai (Warwick), Professor Joni Lovenduski (Birkbeck) and Professor Sarah Childs (Bristol), Georgina Waylen has been conducting research as part of a Leverhulme Programme on Gendered Ceremony and Ritual In Parliament. Her research has focused on two themes: integrating ceremony and ritual into institutional theory; and investigating the role of space and symbols in building new democracies. Recently she has also been focusing on gendering institutions. She is a founder member and co-director of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network (FIIN) together with colleagues from the Universities of Edinburgh, Sydney and Washington, St Louis. She working on developing a feminist historical institutionalism. Georgina Waylen is also co-convenor (with Dr Victoria Robinson, Sociological Studies) of the Social Science Gender Research Network at the University of Sheffield.

Key Publications

• The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics, edited together with Karen Celis, Johanna Kantola and Laurel Weldon, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012
• Global Governance: Feminist Analyses, co-edited with Shirin Rai, Palgrave, 2008
• Engendering Transitions: Women’s Mobilization, Institutions and Gender Outcomes, Oxford University Press, 2007
• Towards a Gendered Political Economy, co-edited with Joanne Cook and Jennifer Roberts, Macmillan 2000
• Gender, Politics and the State, co-edited with Vicky Randall, Routledge 1998
• Gender in Third World Politics, Lynn Rienner/Open University Press, 1996.

Click here for Professor Waylen's full list of publications.

PhD Supervision

Georgina Waylen welcomes good research students with interests in gender and politics broadly defined which can include transitions to democracy, international political economy, development and institutional analysis, women's representation and mobilization.

Areas of current and past supervision include:

• Gender and the restructuring of Welfare Policies in Chile, due for completion September 2013
• Gender and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, due for completion September 2014
• Women's representation in Mexico, due for completion in September 2012
• Deliberation in the South African Parliament, completed October 2011
• Gender, Security and Women’s Organizing in Serbia, completed Jan 2011
• Women's movements and state feminism in Brazil. completed Sept 2008
• Globalization and women's work in Japan, completed January 2003
• Gender and Citizenship in Europe, completed June 2002
• Trades Unions and the transition to democracy in the Czech Republic, completed December 2001