Georgina Waylen (co-chair)

Georgina Waylen is the WJM Mackenzie Chair of Government at the University of Manchester. Previously she was Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield and she had also taught at the Universities of Salford and East Anglia. She is currently a visiting professor at King's College University of London and has also held visiting positions at Harvard University, Simon Fraser University, the University of Witswatersrand and Stanford University, USA. She has researched and published widely in comparative politics/political economy, focusing on gender and politics, international political economy, transitions to democracy, and governance and institutions. She has been involved in the development of a Feminist Insitutionalism and her book Engendering Transitions: Women's Mobilization, Institutions and Gender Outcomes (Oxford University Press 2007) was awarded the 2008 APSA Victoria Schuck prize. She recently held a Leverhulme fellowship examining right-wing populism, anti-gender movements and democratic erosion in the UK. From 2012 to 2017 she was PI for a five-year European Research Council Advanced Grant 'Understanding Institutional Change: A Gender Perspective'.