Professor Diane Elson
Email
drelson@essex.ac.ukLocation
Colchester Campus
Biography
I am now an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology, enjoying a very busy ‘retirement’ as chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group, a voluntary network of researchers, trade unionists and feminist activists that analyses the impact of UK government budgets on gender equality and low income women (see www.wbg.org.uk ). In addition, I advise UN Women and am a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy. I continue to research and publish, with a focus on fiscal policy, gender equality and human rights; and enjoy interacting with feminist scholars in Scotland, as Visiting Professor in the Women in Scotland’s Economy Research Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University. Diane Elson, with Dr Devaki Jain, H.E. Zanele Mbeki and Dr Winnie Byanyima, at a UNDP Expert Group Meeting on Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth, Wivenhoe House Hotel, 21st June 2007. In 2006, I was named as one of fifty key thinkers on development in a book, see David Simon, Fifty Key Thinkers in Development, Routledge, London. Membership of organisations: International Association for Feminist Economics
Qualifications
BA Oxford,
PhD Manchester,
