Dr Sarah Bradshaw

School Faculty of Business and Law
Department Centre for Policing
Location London

Research activities

Key areas

Gender and development; Gendered disaster risk reduction and response听

Gender roles and relations within households

Poverty and poverty reduction strategies; The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

NGOs, social movements and civil society; Feminism and activism

Selected external presentations

Invited participant: 鈥楩eminist Roadmap for Sustainable Peace and Planet鈥� hosted by the Consortium of Gender, Security and Human Rights with the Swedish government, 听Rockefeller Brothers Fund鈥檚, New York, 5 鈥� 9^th December 2022听

Invited speaker, National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India: Women and Disasters: Missing Women鈥榮 Perspective, 17^th August 2021听

Key note address: 鈥楿nderstandings of 鈥榥atural鈥� and 鈥榙isasters鈥� in the time of pandemic: Reflections on gendered differences in conceptualising and contextualising Covid-19鈥� for The Australian National University in Canberra, 10^th February 2021

Key note: UK Alliance for Disaster Research annual meeting 鈥楾aking an intersectional approach to disaster risk reduction and response: Issues in policy and practice鈥� 11^th September 2020.

Key note speaker: First Anniversary event of the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction,听 Centre for Gender and Disaster, UCL, London, 6^th March 2019

Invited speaker: Biodiversity and Climate Change with a Gender Focus, event hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean at the National Congress, Santiago de Chile, 9th October 2019

Key note speaker: High-level conference on Women, Peace and Security hosted by the Commander in Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces, Stockholm, 1-3 October 2018

Invited speaker: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) 70^th Anniversary event 鈥楽ubstantive and Analytical Workshop:听 Rethinking Development in a World of Transition鈥�, ECLAC Headquarters Santiago de Chile, 27 -听 28^th August 2018.

Invited participant at workshop 鈥極perationalizing the Leave No One Behind Agenda鈥�. Overseas Development Institute / University of Cambridge, February 21-22, 2018.

Invited speaker at: UN High Level International Forum on Innovation for Sustainable Development. Organized by the State Government of Guanajuato and the UNSECO Office of Mexico. September 11th 鈥� 13th 2017, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Invited speaker at 鈥楪ender Justice and Extractive Industries: Setting the Change Agenda鈥�. A strategic dialogue hosted by Oxfam America. March 23rd, 2017, Washington DC.

Invited speaker on 鈥楪endered aspects of Climate Change鈥� at Global Communities workshop, funded by USAID. Managua, Nicaragua, 21^st March 2017.

Invited speaker at round table: Parliament, policy and sustainable development: SDG 5. Betty Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House, Westminster, 24th November 2016.

Invited participant at the workshop 鈥楩eminist Playbook for Security and Sustainable Peace鈥� to discuss the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda rooted in UN Security Council Resolution 1325 financed by the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre, Oslo, June 2015.

Invited participant in the high-level expert group meeting on 鈥楾he Urban Sustainable Development Goal, Targets and Indicators鈥�, hosted by the UNSDSN and the Urban SDG Campaign, August, 2014.

Invited expert to the UN 鈥榯hinkers meeting' on the Political Saliency of Disaster Risk Management as part of the meeting series on The Future of Disaster Risk Management for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, San Jos茅, 24-25 March 2014.

Plenary speaker at the UN IANWGE/OECD DAC GENDERNET Biennial Workshop on 鈥楪ender Equality, Women's Rights And Women's Empowerment: The Cornerstone For Achieving The MDGs And Accelerating Development Beyond 2015', OECD Headquarters, Paris, November 2013.

Invited participant in the 鈥楥onflict and disasters group' of the 鈥楨xpert Group Meeting on Gender and Agriculture' hosted by the World Bank, FAO and IFAD. The World Bank, Washington16 - 17th March 2009.

Invited speaker on the panel 'The consolidation of democracy' at the Central American Forum, hosted by Canning House and supported by the Office of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and the Embassies of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, 12th - 15th November 2007.

Presentation on 鈥楥ritical perspectives on DfID's Latin America Regional Assistance Plan' to the Latin American team of the UK Government Department for International Development (DfID), June 2005.

Meeting organised by the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC) with Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. Presentation 鈥楪ender, Poverty and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative', House of Commons, March 2004.

Symposium: 鈥極vercoming Rights Non-compliance in PRSPs', World Social Forum, Mumbai, India, January 2004.

Meeting of the Members of the European Commission, Brussels. 鈥楶overty Reduction Strategies in Central America: The civil society response' organised by the European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD), June 2002.听

Meeting organised by International Cooperation for Development (ICD/CIIR) and chaired by John Battle, MP.听 Presentation 鈥楨ngendering Poverty Reduction Strategies in Central America', House of Commons, June 2002.听

Current Teaching

Pedagogic interests

Ensuring quality of content through research led teaching;听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Supporting student learning through creative assessment;听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Providing practical skills for听enhanced employability;听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Promoting diversity and equal opportunities within the curriculum

Teaching areas

Policy and policy evaluation;听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Research Methods;听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity;听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听Humanitarianism and post-disaster response.

听Innovation

Invited speaker at the IXX edition of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Summer School on the Latin American Economies on 鈥楾he contribution of Feminist Economics to Development. ECLAC Headquarters Santiago de Chile, 27 -听 28th August 2018.

Joint development (with Professor Joshua Castellino) and delivery of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) financed via the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network on Equality and Rights in the post-2015 era. First aired September 2016 with 1000+ students enrolled. Aired annually. A taught module also delivered in 番茄社区 utilising the MOOC resources

听Provision of lectures on Feminist and theory and Post Structuralism for Kulturstudier In cooperation with the faculty of International Studies at Oslo and Akershus University College, Leon, Nicaragua March 2015; 2016; 2017

Invited to join the European Association of Development Institutes (EADI) mentoring scheme for early career academics from the Global South (June 2017)

Provision of lectures and PhD and Early Career Academics workshops at Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable, Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile, as part of ERASMUS+, 5 鈥� 9th September 2016

Invited speaker at the Geographical Association鈥檚 Annual Teaching Conference 鈥� Crossing Boundaries - University of Surrey 14 鈥� 16^th April, 2014.听听

Biography

Dr Bradshaw joined the University in 1994 and over the years has been Programme Leader for various Development Studies and International Politics programmes, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has held the positions of Head of Department, Head of School, and was interim Academic Dean of the newly formed听 Faculty of Business and Law. She is currently Head of the Centre for Policing and Strategic Lead for听Policing Education for the University within the Police Education Consortium.听听

She has been involved with Equal Opportunities and Ethics throughout her time at the University and has been Chair of School level Ethics Committees and a member of the University Ethics Committee. She was joint-chair and founder of the University鈥檚 Gender Forum.听

She was lead writer for the successful University level Athena Swan award (2021) and more recently the Race Equality Award (2023).听

Her research focuses on the general field of gender and development, with a specific focus on Latin America. All the research she undertakes seeks to have a practical as well as academic application, through informing teaching, as the basis of advocacy initiatives seeking to influence policy makers, or being used to promote discussion and action among actors of organised civil society.

From the late 1990s she has worked with Nicaraguan Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) and social and women's movements to promote women's rights. In particular working with the Nicaraguan feminist NGO,听听and this work took her into new and emerging fields such as social communication initiatives for social change, including working on their popular TV 'social soaps'听Sexto Sentido听and听Contracorriente.

Living in Nicaragua when Hurricane Mitch struck in 1998, during the relief and reconstruction phase she worked with the Civil Coordinator for Emergency and Reconstruction (CCER), a consortium of NGOs, groups and movements formed in response to the hurricane, and was involved in a number of studies looking at post-disaster reconstruction. This interest in 'disasters' has continued, and informs her research, teaching and PhD supervision today. In 2013 she published the first book on the topic of听听(Edward Elgar). Her expertise in this field has led to work with various UN initiatives, including lobbying during the intergovernmental negotiations over the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015 as well as a number of media appearances.

In 2015 she worked with the听听(SDSN), a global initiative of the United Nations that worked closely with other United Nations agencies, multilateral financing institutions, as well as other international organizations听in听shaping the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.听She was commissioned to write the report on听听for the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons charged with developing the first, draft set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).听听

Her recent funded research projects have have included exploring ecosystem services and urban transformations in Brazil (RCUK-CONFAP) and undertaking a Gender听Evidence Synthesis on poverty alleviation (ESRC/DFID). She has worked with various international organisations and agencies including the United Nations, most recently working with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development to define and re-launch their Gender and Development programme.听

As Thematic Lead for Gender and Intersectionality she led on developing an innovative approach for drawing lessons learned from the de-colonial and feminist approach adopted on the Gender Responsive Resilience & Intersectionality in Policy and Practice () project as well as providing a deep, qualitative understanding of the impact of this 拢4.8 million GCRF Networking plus Partnering for Resilience grant.听听

External activities

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