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

Teaching

Postgraduate

• 7YYFN032 Building Gender-Inclusive Organisations and Outcomes

• 7AASM167/7AASM067 Decoloniality and the Global South

Further details

See Aleida's research profile