Dr. Rosalind Cavaghan

Emma Goldman

2021

Dr. Rosalind Cavaghan is an independent Expert and Research Consultant, as well as a Visiting Researcher at GenderED, at the University of Edinburgh.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosalindcavaghan/

After an award-winning dissertation in 2013 that became the great book ‘Making Gender Equality Happen: Knowledge, Change and Resistance in Gender Mainstreaming’, Rosalind started the precarious existence of postdoc life with a Marie Curie post doc in Nijmegen. She has since balanced earning a living based largely on consultancy with independent, cutting edge research on the politics of knowledge, economic governance and gender, and feminist political economy.

Next to a stint teaching at Tampere University Finland, she also advised the Scottish Government and the European Institute for Gender Equality. She is a Trustee of the Scottish Women’s Budget Group (one of the best in Europe) where she’s focused on Just, Green Transitions. She is an excellent speaker, and dedicated activist within the academic community to carve out more space for anti-racist feminist engagement.

Highlights

  • Cavaghan, R and Elomaki E, (forthcoming Autumn 2021) Dead Ends and Blind Spots: The Epistemological Foundations of the Crisis in Social Reproduction, Journal of Common Market Studies
  • Cavaghan, R. and Elomaki A. (2021) Feminist Political Economy and Its Explanatory Promise, in The Routledge Handbook of Gender and EU Politics, Gabriele Ables, Andrea Krizsan, Heather MacRae and Anna van der Vleuten (Eds), Routledge
  • Cavaghan, R (2020) Constraints and Possibilities for Intersectional Practice in Gender Budgeting Activism, Social Politics, 7 (4),  in Special Issue ‘Experts Idiots and Liars: The Gender Politics of Knowledge in Turbulent Times’ (guest editors Rosalind Cavaghan and Teresa Kulawik)
  • Cavaghan, R. (2017) Making Gender Equality Happen: Knowledge, Change and Resistance in EU Gender Mainstreaming, Routledge: London
  • Cavaghan, R. (2013) Gender Mainstreaming as a Knowledge Process: Epistemic Barriers to Eradicating Gender Bias, Critical Policy Studies, 7 (4)