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BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS Gill Allwood is Reader in Gender Politics at Nottingham Trent University and author of French Feminisms (UCL 1998), and co-author with K. Wadia of Women and Politics in France (Routledge 2000), Gender and Policy in France (Palgrave 2009) and Refugee Women in Britain and France (MUP 2010).
Maxine David is a Lecturer in European Politics within the School of Politics. She is a specialist in Foreign Policy Analysis, focusing on Russian and EU foreign policy in particular. Her published work includes research into Russia as a marginal state, UK–Russia and EU–Russia relations. She is also a coconvenor of a Study Group on Russian Modernisation, which forms part of a wider Collaborative Research Network under the auspices of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES).
Elena Del Giorgio, PhD in Politics, has worked as researcher responsible for the Italian case within the UCM Madrid team of the QUING European research Project aiming at evaluating, in comparative perspective, the quality of gender + equality policies in the EU (www.quing.eu). In the past 5 years she has mainly worked on the women's movement in Europe at the European University Institute of Florence (Italy) where she has defended in 2010 her PhD on contemporary feminist organisations in Berlin, Milan and Paris. She graduated in political science at the Bologna University and subsequently worked in the Department of political and social sciences of the University Cesare Alfieri of Florence. Her main research interests are: general political sociology, social movements, gender + equality policies, Italian politics and political system.
Roberta Guerrina is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Politics at the University of Surrey. She is a European policy analyst with a particular interest in European social policy, citizenship policy and gender equality. She has published in the area of women's human rights, work-life balance, identity politics and the idea of Europe. She is the author of Mothering
doi:10.1016/S0277-5395(13)00102-7
the Union (Manchester University Press, 2005) and Europe: History, Ideas and Ideologies (Arnold, 2002).
Emanuela Lombardo, PhD in Politics, is Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Administration II of Madrid Complutense University, Spain. She has worked as Ramón y Cajal and senior researcher in the European project QUING (Quality in Gender Equality Policies, FP6 2006–2011, www.quing.eu). Her areas of expertise are gender equality policies particularly in the European Union, Spain, and Italy. On these issues she has published articles in journals such as European Journal of Women's Studies, Social Politics, Feminist Review, Journal of Women Politics and Policy, Women's Studies International Forum, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Citizenship Studies, as well as chapters in edited volumes. She is co-editor with Maxime Forest of the volume The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies. A Discursive-sociological Approach (Palgrave 2012). She teaches undergraduate courses on comparative politics and master and PhD courses on gender and politics. For further information see the web http://www.ucm.es/info/target/.
Heather MacRae is an Associate Prof. of Political Science at York University. She is particularly interested in questions of gender equality and family policy in the European Union. Recent research projects include a study on the role of multilevel governance in shaping parental leave policy in Germany and work on the question of parity representation in the European institutions. Prof. MacRae is a member of the executive board of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, and of the European Union Centre of Excellence at York University.
Ania Zbyszewska is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. She is a member of CRIMT, the InterUniversity Research Network on Work and Globalization, and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Victoria. Ms. Zbyszewska is currently writing her dissertation entitled Unveiling the Politics of Gender in the EU Working Time Regulation – The Case of Poland.
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Women's Studies International Forum j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / w s i f
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS Gill Allwood is Reader in Gender Politics at Nottingham Trent University and author of French Feminisms (UCL 1998), and co-author with K. Wadia of Women and Politics in France (Routledge 2000), Gender and Policy in France (Palgrave 2009) and Refugee Women in Britain and France (MUP 2010).
Maxine David is a Lecturer in European Politics within the School of Politics. She is a specialist in Foreign Policy Analysis, focusing on Russian and EU foreign policy in particular. Her published work includes research into Russia as a marginal state, UK–Russia and EU–Russia relations. She is also a coconvenor of a Study Group on Russian Modernisation, which forms part of a wider Collaborative Research Network under the auspices of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES).
Elena Del Giorgio, PhD in Politics, has worked as researcher responsible for the Italian case within the UCM Madrid team of the QUING European research Project aiming at evaluating, in comparative perspective, the quality of gender + equality policies in the EU (www.quing.eu). In the past 5 years she has mainly worked on the women's movement in Europe at the European University Institute of Florence (Italy) where she has defended in 2010 her PhD on contemporary feminist organisations in Berlin, Milan and Paris. She graduated in political science at the Bologna University and subsequently worked in the Department of political and social sciences of the University Cesare Alfieri of Florence. Her main research interests are: general political sociology, social movements, gender + equality policies, Italian politics and political system.
Roberta Guerrina is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Politics at the University of Surrey. She is a European policy analyst with a particular interest in European social policy, citizenship policy and gender equality. She has published in the area of women's human rights, work-life balance, identity politics and the idea of Europe. She is the author of Mothering
doi:10.1016/S0277-5395(13)00102-7
the Union (Manchester University Press, 2005) and Europe: History, Ideas and Ideologies (Arnold, 2002).
Emanuela Lombardo, PhD in Politics, is Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Administration II of Madrid Complutense University, Spain. She has worked as Ramón y Cajal and senior researcher in the European project QUING (Quality in Gender Equality Policies, FP6 2006–2011, www.quing.eu). Her areas of expertise are gender equality policies particularly in the European Union, Spain, and Italy. On these issues she has published articles in journals such as European Journal of Women's Studies, Social Politics, Feminist Review, Journal of Women Politics and Policy, Women's Studies International Forum, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Citizenship Studies, as well as chapters in edited volumes. She is co-editor with Maxime Forest of the volume The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies. A Discursive-sociological Approach (Palgrave 2012). She teaches undergraduate courses on comparative politics and master and PhD courses on gender and politics. For further information see the web http://www.ucm.es/info/target/.
Heather MacRae is an Associate Prof. of Political Science at York University. She is particularly interested in questions of gender equality and family policy in the European Union. Recent research projects include a study on the role of multilevel governance in shaping parental leave policy in Germany and work on the question of parity representation in the European institutions. Prof. MacRae is a member of the executive board of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, and of the European Union Centre of Excellence at York University.
Ania Zbyszewska is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. She is a member of CRIMT, the InterUniversity Research Network on Work and Globalization, and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Victoria. Ms. Zbyszewska is currently writing her dissertation entitled Unveiling the Politics of Gender in the EU Working Time Regulation – The Case of Poland.