Professor Shirin M. Rai
- Position
- Professor of Politics and International Studies
- Areas of expertise
- Feminist international political economy; Gender and political institutions; Politics and performance.
- Location
- University of Warwick
- School
- Politics and International Studies
Shirin M. Rai is Professor in the department of Politics and International Studies and the Director of the Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development.
Her current work has three strands:
- Feminist international political economy;
- Gender and political institutions;
- Politics and performance.
She has written extensively on these issues. She was member of the PSA Commission on Care (2016) and Director of the Leverhulme Trust programme on Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (2007-2011).
Her latest book is Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament (with Carole Spary; OUP), 2019. She is currently working on a book - Depletion: the human costs of caring (OUP).
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Shirin is working on Work Package 3 (WP3) 'Care, Caring and Carers' with Dr Shahnaz Akhter and Dr Jayanthi Lingham.