As the climate crisis deepens, in this podcast, Gender & Development's assistant editor Liz Cooke talks to the two co-editors of the Climate Crisis issue of the journal. The conversation takes in why the climate crisis is a gender issue, some of the ways it's affecting women in the Asia Pacific region, how a gender perspective is (or isn't) being incorporated into climate change policy, and the overlap between the climate crisis and the current COVID 19 pandemic. Taking part are:  Irene Dankelman, academic, author and consultant on gender, the environment, and climate change  ..read more

2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the landmark United Nation's Fourth World Conference on Women, at which governments from around the world pledged to advance women's rights and work towards full gender equality. In this podcast,  Gender & Development's assistant editor Liz Cooke is joined by four women's rights activists who have written for the Beijing +25 issue of the journal. Together they assess the impact of the Beijing Conference for women's rights over the last 25 years, the role of the United Nations in supporting women's struggle for equality, and the likely consequences o ..read more

In this podcast Liz Cooke, assistant editor of Gender & Development, speaks to three contributors to the November 2019 issue of G&D, which focuses on the challenges of putting a feminist research agenda into practice. Our contributors talk to us about their research, undertaken in very different contexts. Michelle Lokot tells us about her research with Syrian refugees, Mirna Guha discusses researching sex work in Eastern India, and Xian Warner shares ideas on getting quantitative research on Violence against Women and Girls into the hands of policy makers. You can read their journal ..read more

In this podcast, Gender & Development's  Liz Cooke talks to the three co-editors of the Health issue of the journal. Topics covered are: why a gender lens is important when considering health matters health inequities  COVID-19 and its gendered impact building back better after the pandemic Taking part are:  Janice Cooper, Senior Project Adviser for the Carter Center's Liberia Mental Health Initiative Renu Khanna, a founding member and a Director at the NGO, SAHAJ-Society for Health Alternatives, India Sally Theobald, Professor and Chair in Social Science and Internation ..read more

As the climate crisis deepens, in this podcast, Gender & Development's assistant editor Liz Cooke talks to the two co-editors of the Climate Crisis issue of the journal. The conversation takes in why the climate crisis is a gender issue, some of the ways it's affecting women in the Asia Pacific region, how a gender perspective is (or isn't) being incorporated into climate change policy, and the overlap between the climate crisis and the current COVID 19 pandemic. Taking part are:  Irene Dankelman, academic, author and consultant on gender, the environment, and climate change  ..read more

2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the landmark United Nation's Fourth World Conference on Women, at which governments from around the world pledged to advance women's rights and work towards full gender equality. In this podcast,  Gender & Development's assistant editor Liz Cooke is joined by four women's rights activists who have written for the Beijing +25 issue of the journal. Together they assess the impact of the Beijing Conference for women's rights over the last 25 years, the role of the United Nations in supporting women's struggle for equality, and the likely consequences o ..read more

In this podcast Liz Cooke, assistant editor of Gender & Development, speaks to three contributors to the November 2019 issue of G&D, which focuses on the challenges of putting a feminist research agenda into practice. Our contributors talk to us about their research, undertaken in very different contexts. Michelle Lokot tells us about her research with Syrian refugees, Mirna Guha discusses researching sex work in Eastern India, and Xian Warner shares ideas on getting quantitative research on Violence against Women and Girls into the hands of policy makers. You can read their journal ..read more