
Professor Cathy McIlwaine
Vice Dean (Research), Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Policy
- Professor of Geography
Research interests
- Geography
Biography
Professor Cathy McIlwaine has a BA (Geography) and MA (Latin American Studies) from the University of Liverpool and a PhD from the London School of Economics. Prior to joining King's, Cathy held positions in the Geography Departments of the London School of Economics and Political Science (1994-5) and at Queen Mary University of London (1995-2017). She also worked at the World Bank as a Social Scientist Research Project Manager (1-year secondment) in Washington DC(1998-9).
Cathy has served or is currently serving as a trustee for the following organisations: Carila Latin American Welfare Group (2006-9), Children Change Colombia (2010-17), Latin Elephant (2014-present) and the Latin American Bureau (2019-present). She is also an advisory board member of the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (2017-present) and is an Advisory Council Member for the Institute of Latin American Studies, London (2013-present).
Cathy became Vice Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Policy (SSPP) on 1 October 2020 and was elected as a Fellow to the UK Academy of Social Sciences in 2022. She also served as a sub-panel member representing Geography in the UK Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF).
Cathy has served or is currently serving as a trustee for the following organisations: Carila Latin American Welfare Group (2006-9), Children Change Colombia (2010-17), Latin Elephant (2014-present) and the Latin America Bureau (2019-present). She is also an advisory board member of the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (2017-present).
Cathy also works with arts and theatre organisations, such as the People’s Palace Projects, CASA Latin American Theatre Festival, Footprint Productions, and Migrants in Action. She has collaboratively produced (with Gaël le Cornec) a verbatim theatre play (Efêmera), a short film based on this (Ana), a sound-performance installation (Believe), and a multi-media video installation We Still Fight in the Dark, all based on her research on violence against women and girls. She co-coordinates the King's Visual and Embodied Methodologies Network (with Jelke Boesten and Rachel Kerr).
Research
Cathy’s research revolves around issues of gender, poverty and violence in cities, especially in Latin America, and among migrants in London. The latter focuses on low-paid migrant workers in general and specifically the Latin American community in relation to transnational livelihoods, citizenship and gendered violence.
Her current and recent research projects are on gendered violence amongst Brazilian migrants in London and among those living in the favela of Maré in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Newton Fund with People's Palace Projects, Redes da Mare, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Latin American Women’s Rights Service) and on the experiences of migrant survivors of VAWG with insecure immigration status (funded by the Latin American Women’s Rights Service through the Lloyds Bank Foundation) as well as a British Academy project on resisting gendered violence and creating dignity among women in Rio de Janeiro. Cathy is also working on several impact/public engagement projects, one with the Latin America Bureau (a podcast, blog and website) on Women Resisting Violence, another with Migrants in Action (a community theatre project - We Still Fight in the Dark).
Cathy also works with arts and theatre organisations, such as the People’s Palace Projects, CASA Latin American Theatre Festival and Footprint Productions. She has collaboratively produced (with Gaël le Cornec) a verbatim theatre play (Efêmera), a short film based on this (Ana) and a sound-performance installation (Believe) all based on her research on violence against women and girls. She co-coordinates the King's Visual and Embodied Methodologies Network.
In the video below Cathy talks us through her new project 'Resisting violence, creating dignity: negotiating Violence against women and girls (VAWG) through community history-making in Rio de Janeiro'
Teaching
Cathy’s teaching focuses on gender and development in the global South, transnational migration and Latin American London.
Undergraduate
- 4SSG1016 Geography in Action
- 6SSG3080 Gender and Development in the global South
- 6SSG0610 Independent Geographical Study
Postgraduate
- 7SSG5107 Environment, Livelihoods and Development in the South
PhD supervision
Cathy has extensive expertise in supervising PhD students, including on the following subjects. She welcomes students seeking to pursue PhD supervision for:
- Gender and cities in the Global South
- Transnational livelihoods
- Migrant labour
- Migrant citizenship and political participation
- Violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the Global South and amongst migrants in the UK
- Latin London: the Latin American migrant community in London
Further details
Reclaiming dignity through creative encounters among Brazilian women survivors of violence in London
McIlwaine, C., Peppl, R. & Cal Angrisani, C., 8 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: cultural geographies. p. 1-19 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gendered urban violence in Rio De Janeiro: reflections from a transnational research programme
McIlwaine, C. & Krenzinger, M., 21 Dec 2024, Serviço Social e internacionalização: : a experiência do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social da UFRJ no âmbito do Programa CAPES/PrInt. Leite Pereira , B. & Grave Ortiz , F. (eds.). Uberlândia, Minas Gerais: Navegando, p. 24-39Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Embodied counter-mapping of gendered urban violence and resistance across body-community–city territories in Rio de Janeiro
McIlwaine, C., Heimer, R., Rizzini Ansari, M., Peppl, R., Gonçalves Leal, J., Vieira, F., Dionisio, A., Souza dos Santos, J. & Silva Trindade, N., 5 Nov 2024, URBAN GEOGRAPHY 26 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Cartographies of Emergence of Latin American Communities and British Latinx Imaginaries in London
McIlwaine, C., 12 Nov 2024, bulletin of latin American research.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Gender-based violence in an urban world
McIlwaine, C. & Rizzini Ansari, M., 15 Oct 2024, Handbook on Gender and Cities. Peake, L., Datta, A. & Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, G. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elger, p. 366-375 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Gendered violence and health in ‘translocational’ perspective: Brazilian women's experiences in Rio de Janeiro and London
McIlwaine, C. & Rizzini Ansari, M., 2024, A Research Agenda for Gender and Health. Gideon, J. & Hawkes, S. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, p. 41–68 28 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Violence against women and girls
McIlwaine, C., 28 May 2024, The Companion to Development Studies. Taylor and Francis AS, p. 409-413 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Gendered Urban Violence Across Borders: Assessing Impact in Rio de Janeiro and London
McIlwaine, C., Coelho Resende, N., Rizzini Ansari, M. & Peppl, R., 20 Jun 2024, London. 52 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Gendered urban violence among Gendered urban violence among Brazilians: painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London
McIlwaine, C., Evans, Y., Heritage, P., Krenzinger, M., Rizzini Ansari, M. & Sousa Silva, E., 26 Jun 2024, Manchester: Manchester University Press, Manchester. 270 p. (Urban Transformations)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Introduction: towards migration-violence creative pathways
McIlwaine, C. & Ryburn, M., 6 May 2024, JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES, 50, p. 3229-3251 23 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Gender-based violence, international migration and Agenda 2030
McIlwaine, C., 23 Apr 2024, The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals. Datta, K. & N. P. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 40-52 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Sylvia Chant
McIlwaine, C., 1 Jan 2023, Elgar Encyclopedia of Development. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, p. 587-589 3 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Creative translation pathways for exploring gendered violence against Brazilian migrant women through a feminist translocational lens
McIlwaine, C., 6 May 2024, JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES, 50, p. 3252-3274 23 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Cultural consumption and the performing arts among Latin Americans in London
McIlwaine, C., Datta, K., Evans, Y. & Bunge, D., 21 Jun 2016Research output: Book/Report › Report
Living in Latin London: How Latin American Migrants Survive in the City
McIlwaine, C., 30 Jun 2007Research output: Book/Report › Report
Coping Practices Among Colombian Migrants in London
McIlwaine, C., 31 Dec 2005Research output: Book/Report › Report
Comunidades políticoafetivas no enfrentamento a violências de gênero: mobilizações de mulheres na maré durante a pandemia de covid-19
Translated title of the contribution: Emotional political communities challenging gendered violence: the mobilisation of women from Mare during the COVID-19 pandemicMcIlwaine, C., Rizzini Ansari, M., Krenzinger, M., Gonçalves Leal, J., Coelho Resende, N. & Vieira, F., 29 Nov 2023, Cuidado e Luta: inquietações sobre as dimensões subjetivas e institucionais da violência. Rizzini Ansari, M. & Coelho Resende, N. (eds.). Sao Paulo: DADOS INTERNACIONAIS DE CATALOGAÇÃO NA PUBLICAÇÃO (CIP), p. 107-131Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
The Colombian community in London
McIlwaine, C., 1 Sept 2012, 44 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Transnational voting practices among Colombian migrants in London and Madrid
McIlwaine, C., 8 Sept 2011, London. 41 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
‘Não se pode lutar no escuro’: Violência Contra Mulheres e Meninas Brasileiras em Londres
McIlwaine, C., 8 Sept 2018, London.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Not as safe as houses: experiences of domestic violence among international migrant women
McIlwaine, C., 21 Mar 2023, Handbook on Migration and the Family. Waters, J. L. & Yeoh, B. S. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 232-248 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Women Resisting Violence: Voices and Experiences from Latin America
Women Resisting Violence Collective, Nov 2022Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Countermapping SDG 5 to address violence against women and girls in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
McIlwaine, C., Rizzini Ansari, M., Gonçalves Leal, J., Vieira, F. & Sousa dos Santos, J., 1 Mar 2023, In: Journal of Maps. 19, 1, 2178343.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
We Still Fight in the Dark: Evaluation Findings, Reflections, and Lessons for Policy & Practice
McIlwaine, C., Sreenan, N., Cal Angrisani, C., Peppl, R. & Gomes, I. M., 28 Oct 2022, London: King's College London. 43 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Digital Storytelling among Women Artists Resisting Violence in Mare, Rio de Janeiro: Building a Memory Collection for the Museum of the Person
McIlwaine, C., Coelho Resende, N., Rizzini Ansari, M., Gonçalves Leal, J., Vieira, F., Dionisio, A. & Heritage, P., 17 Oct 2022, London: King's College London. 56 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Body Territory: Mapping women's resistance to violence in the favelas of Mare, Rio de Janeiro
Heimer, R., Rizzini Ansari, M., Gonçalves Leal, J., Dionisio, A., Vieira, F., Trindade, N. & McIlwaine, C., 14 Aug 2022, London: King's College London. 48 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report › peer-review
The impacts of world cultural heritage site designation and heritage tourism on community livelihoods: A Chinese case study
Liu, Y., Wang, Y., Dupre, K. & McIlwaine, C., Jul 2022, In: Tourism Management Perspectives. 43, 100994.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Dignity and Resistance
McIlwaine, C., Peppl, R. & Santos, P., 12 May 2022, 17 p. London : King's College London.Research output: Other contribution
Latin London: Negotiating Invisibility among Latin Americans in London
McIlwaine, C., 2015, London the Promised Land Revisited. Kershen, A. (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., p. 167-186Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Resistance Practices to Address Gendered Urban Violence in Maré, Rio de Janeiro
McIlwaine, C., Coelho Resende, N., Rizzini Ansari, M., Dionisio, A., Gonçalves Leal, J., Vieira, F., Krenzinger, M., Heritage, P., Peppl, R. & Sousa Silva, E., 21 Apr 2022, London: King's College London. 77 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Navigating migrant infrastructure and gendered infrastructural violence: Reflections from Brazilian women in London
McIlwaine, C. & Evans, Y., 5 Jun 2022, In: GENDER PLACE AND CULTURE.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Building Emotional-Political Communities to Address Gendered Violence against Women and Girls during COVID-19 in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro
McIlwaine, C., Krenzinger, M., Rizzini Ansari, M., Coelho Resende, N., Gonçalves Leal, J. & Vieira, F., 21 Apr 2022, In: Social & Cultural Geography.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
What is activist art? Sophie Stevens interviews Gaël Le Cornec and Cathy McIlwaine
Stevens, S., Le Cornec, G. & McIlwaine, C., 28 Nov 2021, Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language learning, Teaching and Research. de Madeiros, A. & Kelly, D. (eds.). London: John Murray, p. 185-192 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Supporting migrant and ethnic economies through regeneration in London: Lessons from community research, activism and campaigning with Latin Elephant
Roman-Velazquez, P., McIlwaine, C., Perez, N. & Peluffo , S., 2021, London: Latin Elephant. 28 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Supporting migrant and ethnic economies through regeneration in London
McIlwaine, C., Roman-Velasquez, P., Natalia, P. & Peluffo , S., 17 Feb 2021, London. 28 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Impact of Covid-19 for Latin American business clusters in London: Latin Elephant’s response
Roman-Velazquez, P., McIlwaine, C., Perez, N. & Peluffo , S., 14 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Latin American Communication Research. 8, 1-2, p. 3-9 7 p., 8: 1-2.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gendered urban violence against women and girls from the margins to the centre
McIlwaine, C., 16 Jun 2021, Urban Violence. Amin, A. & Clarke, H. (eds.). London: British Academy, p. 27-31Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
O Direito à Cidade de Mulheres: Uma análise sobre suas limitações a partir de violências infraestruturais de gênero contra brasileiras em Londres e na Maré, Rio de Janeiro
Translated title of the contribution: Negotiating Women’s Right to the City: Gender-based and infrastructural violence against Brazilian women in London and residents in Maré, Rio de JaneiroMcIlwaine, C., Krenzinger, M., Rizzini Ansari, M., Evans, Y. & Sousa Silva, E., 1 May 2021, In: Revista de Direito da Cidade. 13, 2, p. 954-981Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Violência de gênero e desigualdade racial em uma pesquisa com mulheres no território conflagrado do conjunto de favelas da Maré/Rio de Janeiro
Translated title of the contribution: Gendered violence and racial inequality in research with women from the conflicted territory of the favela complex of Mare, Rio de Janeiro Krenzinger, M., Farias, P., Morgado, R. & McIlwaine, C., 25 Feb 2021, In: Revista Trabalho Necessario. 19, 38, p. 266-289 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Feminised urban futures, healthy cities and violence against women and girls: Transnational reflections from Brazilians in London and Maré, Rio de Janeiro
McIlwaine, C., Evans, Y., Krenzinger, M. & Sousa Silva, E., 26 Aug 2020, Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city. Manchester: Manchester University Press, Manchester, p. 55-78 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Art and Exclusion: Visual and Embodied Methodologies Network Exhibition Catalogue
Behzadi , N. E., Boesten, J., Kerr, R., McIlwaine, C., de Orellana, P., Peake, J. & Redwood, H., 9 Jun 2019, 32 p.Research output: Other contribution
The right to be believed: migrant women’s experiences of violence against women and girls in the ‘hostile environment’ in LondonMcIlwaine, C. and Valenzuela-Oblitas, I. (2019) The right to be believed: migrant women’s experiences of violence against women and girls in the ‘hostile environment’ in London, Safe: The Domestic Abuse Quarterly, 67, 9-13.
McIlwaine, C. & Valenzuela-Oblitas, I., 2019, Safe: the Domestic Abuse Journal, 67, p. 9-13 5 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Feminized precarity among onward migrants in Europe: reflections from Latin Americans in London
McIlwaine, C., 13 Nov 2020, In: ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES. 43, 14, p. 2607-2625 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Feminised precarity among onward migrants in Europe: Reflections from Latin Americans in London
McIlwaine, C., 11 Sept 2020, In: ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES. 43, 14, p. 2607-2625 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Visualising the Margins: Gendered perspectives
Behzadi , N. E. (Other), Boesten, J. (Other), McIlwaine, C. J. (Other), Datta, A. (Other), Espinoza, A. P. (Other) & Mazzone, A. (Other), 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Memories of Violence Against Women and Girls across borders: Transformative gender justice through the arts among Brazilian women migrants in London
McIlwaine, C. J., May 2021, Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts: Global Perspectives on Commemoration and Mobilization. Boesten, J. & Scanlon, H. (eds.). London: Routlege, p. 211-229 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
The Right to be Believed: Migrant women facing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in the ‘hostile immigration environment’ in London
McIlwaine, C. J., Granada, L. & Valenzuela-Oblitas, I., 21 May 2019, London: Latin American Women's Rights Service. 36 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
No Longer Invisible: the Latin American Community in London
McIlwaine, C. J., Juan Camilo, C. & Linneker, B., 2011, No Longer Invisible : the Latin American Community in London. London: Trust for LondonResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
Towards Visibility: the Latin American Community in London
McIlwaine, C. J. & Bunge, D., Jul 2016, Towards Visibility: the Latin American Community in London. London: Trust for London, 83 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
We can't fight in the dark: Violence Against Women and Girls among Brazilians in London
McIlwaine, C. J. & Evans, Y. M., Mar 2018, London. 56 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research

Contested Development research group
Exploring environmental, political and social questions in relation to contested and uneven processes of development.

Gender Studies at King's
Bringing together like-minded scholars and students from across King's to examine the influence of gender relations..

Visual Embodied Methodologies Network
Creating spaces of knowledge-exchange and research excellence around visual, embodied and art-based methodologies within, across and beyond Social Sciences.

Violence Against Women and Girls in transnational perspective in Rio de Janeiro and London
Examining localised and transnational dynamics of violence against women and girls in Brazil and the UK.
Project status: Ongoing
Latin American Security Research Group
The Latin American Security Research Group (LAS) gathers experts working on international relations, defence and security in Latin America.

Intersectional Gendered Violence
The project looks at sexual harassment against and among young people, resistance & activism among migrant women and conflict-related gendered trauma and pain.
Project status: Ongoing

Arts & Conflict Hub
The Arts & Conflicts hub uses artistic mediums to communicate, teach and research the complexities of conflict
News
ESRC Methods grant for innovative projects analysing the experience of gendered violence
The Visual and Embodied Methodologies (VEM) Network at King’s has secured funding for projects on sexual harassment, conflict-related gendered trauma,...

Brazilian migrant women tell their story of working as delivery drivers in London
A new exhibition of photographs taken by the women is part of a larger project on transnational gendered violence, led by King’s researcher Professor Cathy...

King's academics to share research insights at pubs, cafés at the Pint of Science festival
Teams from across King’s are delivering talks, demonstrations and live experiments at the renowned public science festival.

New book explores women's inspirational strategies for tackling growing gender-based violence
Cathy McIlwaine, Vice Dean Research, SSPP and Professor of Geography, and Jelke Boesten, Associate Dean (Doctoral Studies) SSPP and Professor in Gender and...

SSPP launches new fellowship scheme to encourage global collaborations
The Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy (SSPP) has launched a Global Visiting Fellowship Scheme for scholars in low- and middle-income countries.

SSPP celebrates impactful research across the faculty
The Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy recently held its first Impact Awards to recognise and celebrate activity that has had a positive impact on...

IWD 2022: Women leading the way within SSPP
The Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy has its research endeavour entirely led by women and four women academics from the faculty have just been...

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

Women Resisting Violence – King's launches new podcast series
King’s academics, in collaboration with the Latin America Bureau, launch a new three-part podcast series which hears the extraordinary experiences of women...

Events
Creating Collective Care - film screening & creative workshops with Migrants in Action
Special screenings and creative workshops exploring collective care - part of Festival of Social Science
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Book launch: Gendered Urban Violence among Brazilians
Learn how creative engagements are crucial for understanding and resisting gendered urban violence and generating empathetic change.
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Women Resisting Violence Book Launch
Authors and collaborators on the new book will discuss women's widespread creative responses to gender-based violence.
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Exhibition: Dignity & Resistance
This exhibition and ancillary events explore community pathways for resisting gendered urban violence in Rio de Janeiro and London. The exhibition draws on...
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Creative and research responses to building resistance against gender-based violence in Rio de Janeiro and London
Join this Roundtable with Cathy Mcllwaine to discuss Creative and Research responses to building resistance against Gender-Based Violence in Rio de Janeiro...
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Listening to Women Resisting Violence
At this online roundtable discussion, we present the Women Resisting Violence podcast project. The roundtable will specifically focus on the podcast as a...
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Ethics and Creative Research Methods
A Visual Embodied Methodologies workshop series event with Jelke Boesten, Rachel Kerr, Cathy McIlwaine and Svetlana Sequeira Costa
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Visualising the Margins: Gendered Perspectives exhibition
This exhibition presents the (audio)visual work of seven women academics at different stages of their career at King’s College London.
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Features
Women resisting violence: capturing their voices through research and community engagement
For this year's 16 Days of Activism, we speak to Cathy McIllwaine about women resisting violence.

IWD2021: Women's leadership and gender equality in academia
Professor Cathy McIlwaine, Vice Dean for Research for the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, on the challenges faced by women in academia, promoting...

Geography's 'Best Undergraduate Dissertation' award winner reflects on her journey
Geography graduate Rachel Wibberley won the department's 'Best Undergraduate Dissertation'. Here she reflects on her undergraduate journey and the process of...

Meet our SSPP research grant winners
Find out about some of the research projects underway across the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy

Women in favelas are the backbone of responses to the coronavirus crisis in Rio de Janeiro
Favela communities have been severely affected by the coronavirus crisis intensifying existing inequalities

Women in favelas step up during inadequate COVID-19 government response
Despite adversity, women of the 'slums' of Rio de Janeiro are picking up the slack in an effort to support and protect their communities.

Living in fear during the COVID-19 crisis: migrant women with insecure immigration status and domestic violence
Migrant women facing gender-based violence and insecure immigration status face exacerbated gender inequalities due to the current pandemic.

Understanding the impacts on society of COVID-19
How the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy is helping us understand the huge societal shifts created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reclaiming dignity through creative encounters among Brazilian women survivors of violence in London
McIlwaine, C., Peppl, R. & Cal Angrisani, C., 8 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: cultural geographies. p. 1-19 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gendered urban violence in Rio De Janeiro: reflections from a transnational research programme
McIlwaine, C. & Krenzinger, M., 21 Dec 2024, Serviço Social e internacionalização: : a experiência do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social da UFRJ no âmbito do Programa CAPES/PrInt. Leite Pereira , B. & Grave Ortiz , F. (eds.). Uberlândia, Minas Gerais: Navegando, p. 24-39Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Embodied counter-mapping of gendered urban violence and resistance across body-community–city territories in Rio de Janeiro
McIlwaine, C., Heimer, R., Rizzini Ansari, M., Peppl, R., Gonçalves Leal, J., Vieira, F., Dionisio, A., Souza dos Santos, J. & Silva Trindade, N., 5 Nov 2024, URBAN GEOGRAPHY 26 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Cartographies of Emergence of Latin American Communities and British Latinx Imaginaries in London
McIlwaine, C., 12 Nov 2024, bulletin of latin American research.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Gender-based violence in an urban world
McIlwaine, C. & Rizzini Ansari, M., 15 Oct 2024, Handbook on Gender and Cities. Peake, L., Datta, A. & Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, G. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elger, p. 366-375 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Gendered violence and health in ‘translocational’ perspective: Brazilian women's experiences in Rio de Janeiro and London
McIlwaine, C. & Rizzini Ansari, M., 2024, A Research Agenda for Gender and Health. Gideon, J. & Hawkes, S. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, p. 41–68 28 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Violence against women and girls
McIlwaine, C., 28 May 2024, The Companion to Development Studies. Taylor and Francis AS, p. 409-413 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Gendered Urban Violence Across Borders: Assessing Impact in Rio de Janeiro and London
McIlwaine, C., Coelho Resende, N., Rizzini Ansari, M. & Peppl, R., 20 Jun 2024, London. 52 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Gendered urban violence among Gendered urban violence among Brazilians: painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London
McIlwaine, C., Evans, Y., Heritage, P., Krenzinger, M., Rizzini Ansari, M. & Sousa Silva, E., 26 Jun 2024, Manchester: Manchester University Press, Manchester. 270 p. (Urban Transformations)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Introduction: towards migration-violence creative pathways
McIlwaine, C. & Ryburn, M., 6 May 2024, JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES, 50, p. 3229-3251 23 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Gender-based violence, international migration and Agenda 2030
McIlwaine, C., 23 Apr 2024, The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals. Datta, K. & N. P. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 40-52 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Sylvia Chant
McIlwaine, C., 1 Jan 2023, Elgar Encyclopedia of Development. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, p. 587-589 3 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Creative translation pathways for exploring gendered violence against Brazilian migrant women through a feminist translocational lens
McIlwaine, C., 6 May 2024, JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES, 50, p. 3252-3274 23 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Cultural consumption and the performing arts among Latin Americans in London
McIlwaine, C., Datta, K., Evans, Y. & Bunge, D., 21 Jun 2016Research output: Book/Report › Report
Living in Latin London: How Latin American Migrants Survive in the City
McIlwaine, C., 30 Jun 2007Research output: Book/Report › Report
Coping Practices Among Colombian Migrants in London
McIlwaine, C., 31 Dec 2005Research output: Book/Report › Report
Comunidades políticoafetivas no enfrentamento a violências de gênero: mobilizações de mulheres na maré durante a pandemia de covid-19
Translated title of the contribution: Emotional political communities challenging gendered violence: the mobilisation of women from Mare during the COVID-19 pandemicMcIlwaine, C., Rizzini Ansari, M., Krenzinger, M., Gonçalves Leal, J., Coelho Resende, N. & Vieira, F., 29 Nov 2023, Cuidado e Luta: inquietações sobre as dimensões subjetivas e institucionais da violência. Rizzini Ansari, M. & Coelho Resende, N. (eds.). Sao Paulo: DADOS INTERNACIONAIS DE CATALOGAÇÃO NA PUBLICAÇÃO (CIP), p. 107-131Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
The Colombian community in London
McIlwaine, C., 1 Sept 2012, 44 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Transnational voting practices among Colombian migrants in London and Madrid
McIlwaine, C., 8 Sept 2011, London. 41 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
‘Não se pode lutar no escuro’: Violência Contra Mulheres e Meninas Brasileiras em Londres
McIlwaine, C., 8 Sept 2018, London.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Not as safe as houses: experiences of domestic violence among international migrant women
McIlwaine, C., 21 Mar 2023, Handbook on Migration and the Family. Waters, J. L. & Yeoh, B. S. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 232-248 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Women Resisting Violence: Voices and Experiences from Latin America
Women Resisting Violence Collective, Nov 2022Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Countermapping SDG 5 to address violence against women and girls in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
McIlwaine, C., Rizzini Ansari, M., Gonçalves Leal, J., Vieira, F. & Sousa dos Santos, J., 1 Mar 2023, In: Journal of Maps. 19, 1, 2178343.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
We Still Fight in the Dark: Evaluation Findings, Reflections, and Lessons for Policy & Practice
McIlwaine, C., Sreenan, N., Cal Angrisani, C., Peppl, R. & Gomes, I. M., 28 Oct 2022, London: King's College London. 43 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Digital Storytelling among Women Artists Resisting Violence in Mare, Rio de Janeiro: Building a Memory Collection for the Museum of the Person
McIlwaine, C., Coelho Resende, N., Rizzini Ansari, M., Gonçalves Leal, J., Vieira, F., Dionisio, A. & Heritage, P., 17 Oct 2022, London: King's College London. 56 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Body Territory: Mapping women's resistance to violence in the favelas of Mare, Rio de Janeiro
Heimer, R., Rizzini Ansari, M., Gonçalves Leal, J., Dionisio, A., Vieira, F., Trindade, N. & McIlwaine, C., 14 Aug 2022, London: King's College London. 48 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report › peer-review
The impacts of world cultural heritage site designation and heritage tourism on community livelihoods: A Chinese case study
Liu, Y., Wang, Y., Dupre, K. & McIlwaine, C., Jul 2022, In: Tourism Management Perspectives. 43, 100994.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Dignity and Resistance
McIlwaine, C., Peppl, R. & Santos, P., 12 May 2022, 17 p. London : King's College London.Research output: Other contribution
Latin London: Negotiating Invisibility among Latin Americans in London
McIlwaine, C., 2015, London the Promised Land Revisited. Kershen, A. (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., p. 167-186Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Resistance Practices to Address Gendered Urban Violence in Maré, Rio de Janeiro
McIlwaine, C., Coelho Resende, N., Rizzini Ansari, M., Dionisio, A., Gonçalves Leal, J., Vieira, F., Krenzinger, M., Heritage, P., Peppl, R. & Sousa Silva, E., 21 Apr 2022, London: King's College London. 77 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Navigating migrant infrastructure and gendered infrastructural violence: Reflections from Brazilian women in London
McIlwaine, C. & Evans, Y., 5 Jun 2022, In: GENDER PLACE AND CULTURE.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Building Emotional-Political Communities to Address Gendered Violence against Women and Girls during COVID-19 in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro
McIlwaine, C., Krenzinger, M., Rizzini Ansari, M., Coelho Resende, N., Gonçalves Leal, J. & Vieira, F., 21 Apr 2022, In: Social & Cultural Geography.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
What is activist art? Sophie Stevens interviews Gaël Le Cornec and Cathy McIlwaine
Stevens, S., Le Cornec, G. & McIlwaine, C., 28 Nov 2021, Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language learning, Teaching and Research. de Madeiros, A. & Kelly, D. (eds.). London: John Murray, p. 185-192 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Supporting migrant and ethnic economies through regeneration in London: Lessons from community research, activism and campaigning with Latin Elephant
Roman-Velazquez, P., McIlwaine, C., Perez, N. & Peluffo , S., 2021, London: Latin Elephant. 28 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Supporting migrant and ethnic economies through regeneration in London
McIlwaine, C., Roman-Velasquez, P., Natalia, P. & Peluffo , S., 17 Feb 2021, London. 28 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Impact of Covid-19 for Latin American business clusters in London: Latin Elephant’s response
Roman-Velazquez, P., McIlwaine, C., Perez, N. & Peluffo , S., 14 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Latin American Communication Research. 8, 1-2, p. 3-9 7 p., 8: 1-2.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gendered urban violence against women and girls from the margins to the centre
McIlwaine, C., 16 Jun 2021, Urban Violence. Amin, A. & Clarke, H. (eds.). London: British Academy, p. 27-31Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
O Direito à Cidade de Mulheres: Uma análise sobre suas limitações a partir de violências infraestruturais de gênero contra brasileiras em Londres e na Maré, Rio de Janeiro
Translated title of the contribution: Negotiating Women’s Right to the City: Gender-based and infrastructural violence against Brazilian women in London and residents in Maré, Rio de JaneiroMcIlwaine, C., Krenzinger, M., Rizzini Ansari, M., Evans, Y. & Sousa Silva, E., 1 May 2021, In: Revista de Direito da Cidade. 13, 2, p. 954-981Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Violência de gênero e desigualdade racial em uma pesquisa com mulheres no território conflagrado do conjunto de favelas da Maré/Rio de Janeiro
Translated title of the contribution: Gendered violence and racial inequality in research with women from the conflicted territory of the favela complex of Mare, Rio de Janeiro Krenzinger, M., Farias, P., Morgado, R. & McIlwaine, C., 25 Feb 2021, In: Revista Trabalho Necessario. 19, 38, p. 266-289 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Feminised urban futures, healthy cities and violence against women and girls: Transnational reflections from Brazilians in London and Maré, Rio de Janeiro
McIlwaine, C., Evans, Y., Krenzinger, M. & Sousa Silva, E., 26 Aug 2020, Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city. Manchester: Manchester University Press, Manchester, p. 55-78 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Art and Exclusion: Visual and Embodied Methodologies Network Exhibition Catalogue
Behzadi , N. E., Boesten, J., Kerr, R., McIlwaine, C., de Orellana, P., Peake, J. & Redwood, H., 9 Jun 2019, 32 p.Research output: Other contribution
The right to be believed: migrant women’s experiences of violence against women and girls in the ‘hostile environment’ in LondonMcIlwaine, C. and Valenzuela-Oblitas, I. (2019) The right to be believed: migrant women’s experiences of violence against women and girls in the ‘hostile environment’ in London, Safe: The Domestic Abuse Quarterly, 67, 9-13.
McIlwaine, C. & Valenzuela-Oblitas, I., 2019, Safe: the Domestic Abuse Journal, 67, p. 9-13 5 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Feminized precarity among onward migrants in Europe: reflections from Latin Americans in London
McIlwaine, C., 13 Nov 2020, In: ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES. 43, 14, p. 2607-2625 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Feminised precarity among onward migrants in Europe: Reflections from Latin Americans in London
McIlwaine, C., 11 Sept 2020, In: ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES. 43, 14, p. 2607-2625 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Visualising the Margins: Gendered perspectives
Behzadi , N. E. (Other), Boesten, J. (Other), McIlwaine, C. J. (Other), Datta, A. (Other), Espinoza, A. P. (Other) & Mazzone, A. (Other), 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Memories of Violence Against Women and Girls across borders: Transformative gender justice through the arts among Brazilian women migrants in London
McIlwaine, C. J., May 2021, Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts: Global Perspectives on Commemoration and Mobilization. Boesten, J. & Scanlon, H. (eds.). London: Routlege, p. 211-229 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
The Right to be Believed: Migrant women facing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in the ‘hostile immigration environment’ in London
McIlwaine, C. J., Granada, L. & Valenzuela-Oblitas, I., 21 May 2019, London: Latin American Women's Rights Service. 36 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
No Longer Invisible: the Latin American Community in London
McIlwaine, C. J., Juan Camilo, C. & Linneker, B., 2011, No Longer Invisible : the Latin American Community in London. London: Trust for LondonResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
Towards Visibility: the Latin American Community in London
McIlwaine, C. J. & Bunge, D., Jul 2016, Towards Visibility: the Latin American Community in London. London: Trust for London, 83 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
We can't fight in the dark: Violence Against Women and Girls among Brazilians in London
McIlwaine, C. J. & Evans, Y. M., Mar 2018, London. 56 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research

Contested Development research group
Exploring environmental, political and social questions in relation to contested and uneven processes of development.

Gender Studies at King's
Bringing together like-minded scholars and students from across King's to examine the influence of gender relations..

Visual Embodied Methodologies Network
Creating spaces of knowledge-exchange and research excellence around visual, embodied and art-based methodologies within, across and beyond Social Sciences.

Violence Against Women and Girls in transnational perspective in Rio de Janeiro and London
Examining localised and transnational dynamics of violence against women and girls in Brazil and the UK.
Project status: Ongoing
Latin American Security Research Group
The Latin American Security Research Group (LAS) gathers experts working on international relations, defence and security in Latin America.

Intersectional Gendered Violence
The project looks at sexual harassment against and among young people, resistance & activism among migrant women and conflict-related gendered trauma and pain.
Project status: Ongoing

Arts & Conflict Hub
The Arts & Conflicts hub uses artistic mediums to communicate, teach and research the complexities of conflict
News
ESRC Methods grant for innovative projects analysing the experience of gendered violence
The Visual and Embodied Methodologies (VEM) Network at King’s has secured funding for projects on sexual harassment, conflict-related gendered trauma,...

Brazilian migrant women tell their story of working as delivery drivers in London
A new exhibition of photographs taken by the women is part of a larger project on transnational gendered violence, led by King’s researcher Professor Cathy...

King's academics to share research insights at pubs, cafés at the Pint of Science festival
Teams from across King’s are delivering talks, demonstrations and live experiments at the renowned public science festival.

New book explores women's inspirational strategies for tackling growing gender-based violence
Cathy McIlwaine, Vice Dean Research, SSPP and Professor of Geography, and Jelke Boesten, Associate Dean (Doctoral Studies) SSPP and Professor in Gender and...

SSPP launches new fellowship scheme to encourage global collaborations
The Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy (SSPP) has launched a Global Visiting Fellowship Scheme for scholars in low- and middle-income countries.

SSPP celebrates impactful research across the faculty
The Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy recently held its first Impact Awards to recognise and celebrate activity that has had a positive impact on...

IWD 2022: Women leading the way within SSPP
The Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy has its research endeavour entirely led by women and four women academics from the faculty have just been...

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

Women Resisting Violence – King's launches new podcast series
King’s academics, in collaboration with the Latin America Bureau, launch a new three-part podcast series which hears the extraordinary experiences of women...

Events
Creating Collective Care - film screening & creative workshops with Migrants in Action
Special screenings and creative workshops exploring collective care - part of Festival of Social Science
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Book launch: Gendered Urban Violence among Brazilians
Learn how creative engagements are crucial for understanding and resisting gendered urban violence and generating empathetic change.
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Women Resisting Violence Book Launch
Authors and collaborators on the new book will discuss women's widespread creative responses to gender-based violence.
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Exhibition: Dignity & Resistance
This exhibition and ancillary events explore community pathways for resisting gendered urban violence in Rio de Janeiro and London. The exhibition draws on...
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Creative and research responses to building resistance against gender-based violence in Rio de Janeiro and London
Join this Roundtable with Cathy Mcllwaine to discuss Creative and Research responses to building resistance against Gender-Based Violence in Rio de Janeiro...
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Listening to Women Resisting Violence
At this online roundtable discussion, we present the Women Resisting Violence podcast project. The roundtable will specifically focus on the podcast as a...
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Ethics and Creative Research Methods
A Visual Embodied Methodologies workshop series event with Jelke Boesten, Rachel Kerr, Cathy McIlwaine and Svetlana Sequeira Costa
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Visualising the Margins: Gendered Perspectives exhibition
This exhibition presents the (audio)visual work of seven women academics at different stages of their career at King’s College London.
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Features
Women resisting violence: capturing their voices through research and community engagement
For this year's 16 Days of Activism, we speak to Cathy McIllwaine about women resisting violence.

IWD2021: Women's leadership and gender equality in academia
Professor Cathy McIlwaine, Vice Dean for Research for the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, on the challenges faced by women in academia, promoting...

Geography's 'Best Undergraduate Dissertation' award winner reflects on her journey
Geography graduate Rachel Wibberley won the department's 'Best Undergraduate Dissertation'. Here she reflects on her undergraduate journey and the process of...

Meet our SSPP research grant winners
Find out about some of the research projects underway across the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy

Women in favelas are the backbone of responses to the coronavirus crisis in Rio de Janeiro
Favela communities have been severely affected by the coronavirus crisis intensifying existing inequalities

Women in favelas step up during inadequate COVID-19 government response
Despite adversity, women of the 'slums' of Rio de Janeiro are picking up the slack in an effort to support and protect their communities.

Living in fear during the COVID-19 crisis: migrant women with insecure immigration status and domestic violence
Migrant women facing gender-based violence and insecure immigration status face exacerbated gender inequalities due to the current pandemic.

Understanding the impacts on society of COVID-19
How the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy is helping us understand the huge societal shifts created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
