Dr Gloriana Rodriguez Alvarez is a Lecturer in Leadership, Development, Peace and Security Education and a Lecturer in Cultural Competency & Leadership Education. Her academic background includes LLB in law, a master’s in human rights, a master’s in humanities, a PhD in Latin American Studies from the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica and a PhD in Leadership with reference to Security and Development at King’s.

In addition, she has carried out policy-oriented research and human rights advocacy. Gloriana worked as a congressional aide for the President of the Commission of Narco-trafficking and Security in Costa Rica (2010-2014). At the Central American Governance Institute (ICG), she was the Project Manager for a programme implemented in collaboration with the European Union to promote citizen security throughout Central America.

In association with Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), Gloriana directed a drug policy reform project. She then led an interdisciplinary team tasked with interviewing women incarcerated for drug-related crimes. As Director of gender programmes at Alternatives for Human Development (Aldesah), she led the first nationwide investigation regarding incarcerated transgender and gender-diverse individuals in Costa Rica in collaboration with the Office of the Public Defender.

She also led fieldwork investigations in La Paz and Sucre, Bolivia, to evaluate the protection of ancestral rights and women’s rights within the context of plural legalism. 

Research

• Followership/Leadership
• Gender diversity
• Decolonial critiques
• Security

Gloriana's research examines the nexus between followership, security and coloniality using interdisciplinary research, such as socio-legal analysis and empirical research in prisons.

Teaching

Undergraduate/Postgraduate

• 7YYFN201 Governance of Security

Further details

See Gloriana's research profile