Diana Santiago de Magalhaes

Department of Geography,
4th Floor, King’s College London, Strand
London, WC2R 2LS
diana.magalhaes@kcl.ac.uk
 

Diana is specializing in Gender and Development. She is writing her thesis on the role of women political elites in the struggle against gendered development obstacles in Mozambique, focusing on the urban context of the country’s capital city - Maputo. Using a top-down approach, her research underlines the importance of analysing women elites as transforming agents in development processes. Diana’s work examines theories of development, political representation, and citizenship, from a gender perspective.

Dr. Kate Maclean
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Dr. Debby Potts

Gender and development; women political elites, and women social activism. Diana’s primary regional interest is on Sub-Saharan Africa (especially Lusophone countries) and her secondary ones are on Southern Europe and East Asia.

Diana holds a BA in International Relations from Korea University (South Korea) and an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalization from the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK). Her MSc Thesis, “Gender and Representation in the Portuguese Parliament: Women MPs at the Assembleia da República”, supervised by Professor Anne Phillips, examined the puzzle of substantial representation in relation to women members of the Portuguese parliament.
 
As for her non-academic background, Diana collaborated with several organisations, such as NGOs related to poverty reduction in Portugal and UNESCO-Korea. Her language knowledge includes Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, and Korean.

Diana Santiago de Magalhães (2008) “Human Security in East Asia: Rocks, Scissors, Papers”, in Luis Tomé (ed.) East Asia Today. Lisbon: EDIUAL / Prefácio, 381-403.

Diana holds a doctoral scholarship from the Portuguese Government (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia). Previously she received grants from Fundação Oriente (Portugal) and Korea University (South Korea).