Women in Development
Women in Development
Our researchers are working to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 – Gender Equality. They tackle gender inequality by identifying and challenging its root causes, such as imbalances of power and social relations. Their work helps empower women and girls to improve their lives, families and communities.
Team
Our partners
International Lead Champion: Dr Ravinder Kaur, IIT Delhi
- CURE (Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence), India
- IIT Delh, India
- Azad Foundation, India
- Voice for Girls, India
- Street Child, Liberia and Sierra Leone
- Coco, Tanzania
- Team Kenya, Kenya
Newcastle University staff
Professor Margaret Carol Bell CBE
Science City Professor of Transport and the Environment
Email: margaret.bell@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7936
Dr Heather Brown
Senior Lecturer
Email: heather.brown@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 2275
Dr Cat Button
Director of Planning and Urban Design
Email: cat.button@ncl.ac.uk
Professor Nanette De Jong
Prof of Socially Engaged Ethnomusicology
Email: nanette.de-jong@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 6752
Professor Pauline Dixon
Professor of International Development and Education
Email: pauline.dixon@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5047
Dr Steve Humble MBE
Reader in Global Development
Email: steve.humble@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0) 191 208 7593
Dr Jonathan Kimmitt
Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Director of Impact
Email: jonathan.kimmitt@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: 0191 2081614
Professor Karen Ross
Director of Research
Email: karen.ross@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: 447798884110
Dr Claire Walsh
Senior Lecturer
Email: claire.walsh@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 6447
Impact
Global Challenge
While there are encouraging signs for improving gender equality, such as the decline of child marriage and reforming laws to protect women from violence, there is still much work to be done. There is for example much to learn from women entrepreneurs in the global south to support, develop and encourage other women to improve their lives. Barriers still exist through cultural and social norms, regulations, unequal access to resources, knowledge, networks and markets.
How we are making a difference
- Identifying empowered women and enabling them to provide others with a positive and inspirational narrative rather than a discourse of disadvantage.
- Facilitating the development of internal networks of colleagues working in the area of gender and development within the three faculties at Newcastle University.
- Forming global relationships and partnerships with women’s groups and those carrying out related research in India and East Africa.