Senior Researcher

Diana Højlund Madsen is a senior researcher with expertise on processes of gender and democratisation and transformative approaches towards gendered political empowerment – hereunder the role of political parties and women’s movements and mobilization strategies. She also specialises in aspects of gender and peace and security – especially the women, peace and security agenda and gender mainstreaming.

Research

Currently, Diana Højlund Madsen is leading the project Making Politics Safer – Gendered Violence and Electoral Temporalities, with a particular focus on Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe. In addition, she is developing a series of research articles on the women, peace and security agenda, particularly in relation to East Africa. Her research explores the dynamics of gender, power and change, in connection with other intersectional categories such as age, class, ethnicity, race and sexuality. Across her work, she draws on African feminisms as well as post- and decolonial thinking.

Current positions and affiliations

• Research fellow of the University of the Free State in South Africa.
  

Background

• Assistant Professor at the Gender Research Centre at Aalborg University, Denmark 2016
• Ph.D. from the Centre for Gender, Power and Diversity at Roskilde University, Denmark 2010
• Master’s degree on international development studies and public administration at Roskilde University 1999

Publications

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