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Professor Elizabeth Evans

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Professor Elizabeth Evans

Position

Professor in Politics

Department

Politics and International Relations

Email

elizabeth.evans (@gold.ac.uk)

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Elizabeth works on issues related to feminism, disability, representation, parties, social movements and politics.

Elizabeth's work explores the relationships between social movements, political parties and political representation. Her work has received funding from ESRC, British Academy, Government Equalities Office, and the ISRF. She won the 2022 Political Studies Association Joni Lovenduski Prize. She's the author of two books, and co-edited Confronting Privileges: Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements with Eléonore Lépinard (2020). Her latest book, Disability and Political Representation with Stefanie Reher, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. She's published in a wide range of journals including: Sociological Review, International Political Science Review, Politics & Gender, Political Studies, BJPIR and Party Politics. Elizabeth is a co-founding Editor of the European Journal of Politics and Gender, former convenor of the ECPR's group on Politics and Gender, ECPG, and the PSA's Women and Politics Group. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of Politics.

Teaching and supervision

Grants and awards

2020: ISRF Mid-Career Research Fellowship 2020-2021
Disability and Political Representation

2019: The EnAble Fund and Access to Elected Office (with Stefanie Reher)
Government Equalities Office

2014: Third Wave Feminism and Political Representation
British Academy

2009: ESRC Post Doctoral Fellowship
University of Bristol

Publications and research outputs

Book

Evans, Elizabeth. 2015. The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms: Neoliberalism, Intersectionality, and the State in Britain and the US. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137295262

Evans, Elizabeth. 2011. Gender and the Liberal Democrats: Representing Women? Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0719083471

Edited Book

Evans, Elizabeth and Lepinard, Eléonore, eds. 2020. Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements: Confronting Privileges. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367257859

Book Section

Evans, Elizabeth. 2019. Disability and Intersectionality: Patterns of Ableism in the Women’s Movement. In: Elizabeth Evans and Eléonore Lépinard, eds. Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements: Confronting Privileges. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367257859

Article

Hiraide, Lydia Ayame and Evans, Elizabeth. 2023. Intersectionality and Social Movements: A Comparison of Environmentalist and Disability Rights Movements. Social Movement Studies, ISSN 1474-2837

Evans, Elizabeth and Reher, Stefanie. 2023. Gender, Disability and Political Representation: Understanding the Experiences of Disabled Women. European Journal of Politics and Gender, ISSN 2515-1088

Evans, Elizabeth. 2023. Disability Policy and UK Political Parties: Absent, present or absent-present citizens? Disability & Society, 38(10), pp. 1743-1762. ISSN 0968-7599

PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising students who work on gender, feminism, LGBTQ+, disability, social movements, political representation and political parties.