Dr Aleida Borges
Research Fellow
- Grassroots Women Leaders Research Lead
- GIWL Changemaker Programme Lead
- Visiting Lecturer, African Leadership Centre
Research interests
- Equality
- International development
- Politics
- Women
Biography
Dr Aleida Borges leads the Grassroots Women Leaders research stream at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL) and is a Visiting Lecturer at the African Leadership Centre at King’s.
Her research offers critical perspectives at the intersection of politics, gender and decoloniality to examine the multifaceted dimensions of inequality within political, social, and organisational contexts in Africa and parts of the Global South. She is a jurist by training, specialising in International Public Law (Human Rights) and consults as country-expert for Cabo Verde. As a 'Global South' scholar working in the 'Global North', Aleida is committed to initiatives that seek to highlight the power imbalances inherent in our interactions, as researchers, with the Global South and as such seeks to collaborate with colleagues in reorienting the privileges of academic power towards the Global South.
Aleida is the convenor of the African Politics specialist group at the Political Studies Association (PSA UK) and is the SSPP representative on the Research Staff Representative Committee (RSRC). She leads GIWL’s Changemakers Programme, a platform to engage activists and advocates from across the world, to conduct a bespoke research project linked to gender equality work.
Current themes of interest include women’s grassroots and political leadership, climate activism, pandemic responses, and the ‘inequality cost of lockdowns’, decoloniality, intersectionality and organisations as gendered processes. She has authored and edited several reports, manuscripts, book-chapters, peer-reviewed special issues and article publications in English and Portuguese, and regularly co-writes Afrobarometer dispatches focusing on Cabo Verde.
She is committed to ensuring that research is of the highest scientific and ethical standards in protection of the rights of research participants and the wider public served by the research community. In pursuance of this she is a member of the King’s College London Research Ethics Committee, serving the in the High-Risk Research Ethics Panel & Research Ethics Sub-Committee (RESC) for Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law.
Aleida convenes the PGT module Building Inclusive Organisations and Outcomes and has taught modules including Digital Politics, Social and Political Analysis of Emerging Economies, and Digital Research Methods.
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Aleida invites PhD students interested in the themes aligned with her research as outlined below:
Research
- Intersectional & Decolonial Feminism
- Women Grassroots Leadership
- Gender & Development
- Women in Politics
- Global South Epistemologies
- Building Inclusive Organisations
- Social Movements
- Youth Politics
- Politics, Culture & Society in Lusophone Africa & Brazil
Postgraduate Teaching
- 7YYFN032 Building Gender-Inclusive Organisations and Outcomes
- 7AASM167/7AASM067 Decoloniality and the Global South
Further details
Research
Africa Research Group
The Africa Research Group provides a hub for Africa-focused research within the War Studies Department and across the College.
Children, Youth, Peace and the Arts
Children, Youth, Peace and the Arts (CYPA) connects researchers and practitioners to explore how the arts are used in peacebuilding efforts for and with children and youth.
News
£5 million grant awarded to study women's political representation
The research will explore marginalised women's experiences of politics
International Women's Day 2022: #BreakTheBias
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The effects of gender inequality across the world
New podcast episode looks at how gender bias, gendered violence and gender pay gaps are affecting women and wider society
Spotlight
Turning evidence into action to tackle gender inequality
International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8 March each year, is a chance to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. But...
Research
Africa Research Group
The Africa Research Group provides a hub for Africa-focused research within the War Studies Department and across the College.
Children, Youth, Peace and the Arts
Children, Youth, Peace and the Arts (CYPA) connects researchers and practitioners to explore how the arts are used in peacebuilding efforts for and with children and youth.
News
£5 million grant awarded to study women's political representation
The research will explore marginalised women's experiences of politics
International Women's Day 2022: #BreakTheBias
International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women and also marks a call to action for accelerating...
The effects of gender inequality across the world
New podcast episode looks at how gender bias, gendered violence and gender pay gaps are affecting women and wider society
Spotlight
Turning evidence into action to tackle gender inequality
International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8 March each year, is a chance to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. But...