Professor Judith Squires

Personal profile

Judith Squires is Professor of Political Theory and Dean of the Faculty Social Sciences and Law.  She is currently serving as a member of the ESRC Training and Skills Committee and was previously a member of the ESRC Impact Network.  She is also a member of the REF Politics and International Studies sub-panel.  She co-edits the Palgrave Gender and Politics book series, is Reviews Editor for the journal 'Government and Opposition' and is a member of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) Press board.  She was made an Academician of Academy of Social Sciences in 2009

Research

Gender in Political Theory (Polity Press, 1999) established the central importance of gendered analyses to theoretical debates concerning equality, representation and citizenship.  Subsequent publications have interrogated each of these debates further, articulating a theory of democratic citizenship that is sensitive to emergent theoretical and policy developments pertaining to gender.  Recent research focuses on the changing ways in which gender equality is conceived within liberal democracies, mapping the emergence of women’s policy agencies, gender mainstreaming and gender quotas as three particularly important manifestations of contemporary equality strategies.  Publications on women’s policy agencies include articles in Representation, Politics and Gender, Parliamentary Affairs, and British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 

My publications on quotas include the co-authored EOC Report, a Stockholm Working Paper, and articles in British Journal of Political Science, British Politics, European Political Science, Feminist Theory and Parliamentary Affairs.  Publications on mainstreaming include articles in Social Politics, Cahiers du Genre and Femina Politica.   The analyses of these three equality strategies were drawn together in The New Politics of Gender Equality (Palgrave, 2007). Contributions to broader debates concerning innovations in democratic theory, focusing on the challenges of multiculturalism and the potentiality of deliberative democracy, include articles in Socio-Legal Studies and Theoria. 

Current research focuses on the theorization of, and policy responses to, multiple equality strands, with a particular focus on the potential for single equality bodies to engage with issues of intersectionality.  This research area has generated publications in Political Quarterly and International Feminist Journal of Politics.  An edited collection entitled Institutionalising Intersectionality (co-edited with Andrea Krizsan and Hege Skjeie) was published by Palgrave in 2012.

Teaching

 Judith Squires has advised over twenty PhD. students to successful completion including: Rachel Minto, Gender Mainstreaming and Human Rights; Rosa Malley, Representation of Women in Westminster and the Scottish Parliament; Carole Sparey, Mainstreaming Gender in Development Policy 2008; Penny Griffin, The Sexual Configuration of International Relations 2006; Laura Shepherd, The Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Girls 2006 (published as Gender, Violence and Security, Zed Book 2008); Johanna Kantola, Gender and the discursive construction of access to the state 2004 (published as Feminists Theorize the State, Palgrave 2006)Charlotte Hooper, Hegemonic Masculinities in World Politics 1997 (published as Manly States Columbia University Press, 2001).

Her current research students include:

Nina Marshall, Development and Disability Mainstreaming; and Lydia Morgan, State Secrets and the idea of the UK as constitutionally liberal.

She has also mentored ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Mona Lena Krook, Politicizing Representation: Campaigns to Increase Women's Political Presence Worldwide 2005 (published as Quotas for Women in Politics, Oxford University Press 2010) and Wendy Martineau (PhD Univesrity of Wales), Towards Equal Dialogue: Justice and Communication Within and Between Cultures.

Judith Squires welcomes applications from students looking for PhD supervision or postdoctoral mentoring on issues relating to her current research interests.

Full publications list in the University of Bristol publications system