ECPG Mentoring 2015-2017
The first two years post-PhD can be demanding: whether you have just been offered a post-doc, junior faculty position or are currently looking for a job. Some of the issues facing early career academics include: teaching new courses; trying to keep up with your research; working towards tenure or going from one temporary contract to another; meeting publication targets; facing competition; and juggling work and private life. ECPG-mentoring aims to help early career scholars in this phase of their professional development.
ECPG-mentoring programs run for two years: the first cohort began in September 2015 and will complete in the spring of 2017. It consists of up to 10 mentees. The ECPR Standing Group on Gender & Politics pairs mentors and successful applicants. The mentee and mentor jointly design and detail the content of the program in a work plan. Candidates meet with their mentor semiannually at ECPR conferences or through Skype to discuss career-related goals and strategies. The mentee prepares these meetings and brings in the topics for discussion.
Please note that the next call for ECPG mentoring will be launched in early 2018.
ECPG-mentoring programs run for two years: the first cohort began in September 2015 and will complete in the spring of 2017. It consists of up to 10 mentees. The ECPR Standing Group on Gender & Politics pairs mentors and successful applicants. The mentee and mentor jointly design and detail the content of the program in a work plan. Candidates meet with their mentor semiannually at ECPR conferences or through Skype to discuss career-related goals and strategies. The mentee prepares these meetings and brings in the topics for discussion.
Please note that the next call for ECPG mentoring will be launched in early 2018.
Mentors 2015 - 2017
Hanne Marlene Dahl
Hanne Marlene Dahl is a Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University and works with the state and the governance of care, primarily elderly care in a context of Nordic welfare state. Increasingly, governance of care is also about the transnational travelling of discourses at the different institutional levels: from international organizations to the national to the level of municipalities to teams of professional carers. Dahl studies the various logics in the neo-liberal governance of care, their relationship, translation and implications for professional carers as well as the recipients of care. Dahl has participated in national, European and international research projects, co-edited two books ‘Dilemmas of Care in the Nordic Welfare State – Continuity and Change’ and ‘Europeanization, Care and Gender: Global Complexities’ and published widely in international journals. She is currently writing a book entitled “Struggles about care – a feminist view” for Palgrave. |
Patrick Leblond
Patrick Leblond is Associate Director of and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is also Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Research Associate at CIRANO, Affiliated Professor of International Business at HEC Montreal, and Visiting Professor at the World Trade Institute (Bern, Switzerland) and the University of Barcelona (IELPO LL.M. program). Dr. Leblond is an expert on global economic governance and the international economy. He has published extensively on financial and monetary integration, banking regulation, international trade and business-government relations. Prior to moving to Ottawa, he taught international business at HEC Montreal and was director of the Réseau économie internationale (REI) at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CERIUM). Dr. Leblond has been visiting scholar at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), the Institute for Research on Public Policy (Montreal, Canada) and the Department of Political Science at Lund University (Lund, Sweden). Before embarking on his academic career, he worked in accounting and auditing for Ernst & Young as well as in corporate finance and strategy consulting for Arthur Andersen & Co. and SECOR Consulting. Dr. Leblond holds degrees from Columbia University (Ph.D.), Cambridge University (M.Phil.), Lund University (M.B.A.) and HEC Montreal (B.B.A.). He is also a Chartered Professional Accountant. |
Petra Meier
Petra Meier is Professor in Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp and director of the Policy Research Centre for Equality Policies, a consortium of the Flemish universities. Her research focuses on the representation of (mainly) gender in politics and policies. She studied state architectures, with a special focus on federal systems, and subsystems of the political system, such as electoral systems, all of them from a perspective of the potential gender bias they contain and how to overcome them. Her research on policies looks into the representation of gender and other social markers in the formulation of public policies, especially equality policies, and on how to design gender-sensitive policies. She more particularly studied gender quotas in politics and the academia, gender mainstreaming, gender impact assessments and discursive strategies so as to raise gender-awareness. Recent publications include The Symbolic Representation of Gender: A Discursive Approach (with Emanuela Lombardo, 2014, Ashgate) and La professionnalisation des luttes pour l’égalité (with David Paternotte, 2015, Bruylant). |
Shirin M. Rai
Shirin M. Rai is Professor in the department of Politics and International Studies. She has written extensively on issues of gender, governance and development in journals such as Signs, Hypatia, New Political Economy, International Feminist Journal of Politics and Political Studies. She has consulted with the United Nations’ Division for the Advancement of Women and UNDP. She is a founder member of the South Asia Research Network on Gender, Law and Governance, and she was Director of the Leverhulme Trust programme on Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (2007-2011). She serves on the Editorial Boards of International Feminist Journal of Politics, Politics and Gender, Global Ethics and Indian Journal of Gender Studies and Political Studies Quarterly and on the International Studies Association Publications Committee. |
Laura J. Shepherd
Laura J. Shepherd is Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Social Sciences at UNSW Australia. Laura holds a PhD in International Relations, a Master's degree in Gender and International Relations, and a Master's degree in Social Science Research Methods from the University of Bristol (UK). Laura’s primary research focuses on the United Nations Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security agenda. She has written extensively on the formulation of UNSCR1325 and subsequent Women, Peace and Security resolutions, and is currently working on gender and peacebuilding, with a particular focus on civil society engagement, with funding from the Australian Research Council. Laura is particularly interested in poststructural accounts of gender, International Relations and security. Much of her work investigates concepts and performances of authority, legitimacy and power through these theoretical frameworks. Laura has also edited two textbooks, including Gender Matters in Global Politics (2nd ed., Routledge, 2015), which is widely used as an introductory text on feminist International Relations. In addition to scholarly contributions, Laura is also co-founder of the Women, Peace and Security Academic Collective (WPSAC), which was formed in 2012 to champion the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda in Australia. Laura regularly blogs for WPSAC and other websites including The Disorder of Things and the Gender in Global Governance Net-Work. Laura tweets from @drljshepherd. |
Birte Siim
Birte Siim is political scientist and Professor in Gender Research in the Social Sciences, Dept. of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. She has published on theories and comparative research on gender and politics, democracy, citizenship and the welfare state . Research interests include intersectionality/diversity, migration/multiculturalism, Right wing populism, nationalism, post-nationalism. Recent publications include: Gender Diversities – Practicing Intersectionality in the European Union. Ethnicities. 2014 (14) 4 (with L. Rolandsen Agustin); “Political Intersectionality and Democratic Politics in the European Public Sphere”, Politics & Gender, 2014 (10) 01; “Conflicts and Negotiations about Framings of Gender and Ethnicity by Political Actors in the European Public Sphere”; Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 2014 (30) 1; Negotiations of Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere (ed. with M. Mokre), Palgrave/Macmillan 2013; “Citizenship” in K. Celis, V. Waylen (ed.). The Oxford Handbook on Gender and Politics, OUP, 2013. |
Mieke Verloo
Mieke Verloo is Professor of Comparative Politics and Inequality Issues at Radboud University in the Netherlands, and Non-Residential Permanent Fellow at the IWM, Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. She is the winner of the 2015 ECPG Gender and Politics Career Achievement Award. She was scientific director of large research projects on gender equality policymaking in Europe (see www.mageeq.net and www.quing.eu). She has extensive consultancy and training experience on gender mainstreaming and intersectionality for several European governments and institutions. Her research is on feminist politics and opposition to gender+ equality in Europe. |