Shingirai Mtero
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Dr Shingirai Mtero is a cross-disciplinary scholar whose research areas include: Gender Studies, African Feminism(s) & Transitional Justice. She is currently conducting research at NAI that focuses on barriers to women’s political participation and gendered political violence in Africa.
Research
Mtero’s current research makes use of participatory qualitative methods to characterise the political, social, structural, historic & institutional factors that limit the agency of aspiring & elected women political leaders, in specific African contexts. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher on a VR funded project (Making Politics Safer) that explores gendered electoral violence in Ghana, Kenya & Zimbabwe. She is also the principal investigator on a project funded by the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy that focuses on addressing Online Violence Against Women in Local Politics in Zimbabwe.
Background
Mtero holds a PhD in Political & International Studies from the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University (South Africa), where she served as a Lecturer for over five years. She was a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow and a 2017 Visiting Research Fellow at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for International Courts at the University of Copenhagen. She served on the Knowledge Network of the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa and serves as a subject editor for the Nordic Journal of African Studies
