Gender in Academia & DPIR

Oxford has been a men-dominated space for centuries and it still shows today. We want to discuss how gender shapes our experiences at DPIR and in academia more generally. What are the underlying reasons for the imbalanced gender ratio of senior academic staff at our Department? How does gender impact the manner of seminar discussions? What counts as rigorous (political science) knowledge and methodology and how is this informed by socialised gender expectations? And, importantly, how does gender intersect with other social identities to create unequal chances and experiences?

Alexander Yen

Alexander is a DPhil student in International Relations who focusses on diplomatic language, international institutions, and rising powers. His research specifically examines undiplomatic language at multilateral institutions and the causes and implications of their incidence. His mixed-method approach aims to arrive at a long-term perspective of an individual country's (currently the US, India, and China) diplomatic activity at multilateral institutions (currently the UN General Assembly) with a view to understanding both variation and consistency in diplomatic discourse.

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