Her research interests include intersecting inequalities, particularly around gender, and the relationship between education and justice.

A gendered understanding of poverty is crucial for exploring its differing impacts. Women, in particular, may be vulnerable to the effects of poverty and the causes of women's poverty, and how poverty is experienced, may differ from men. Neither women nor men, however, are a homogenous group and how poverty is experienced depends on other intersecting issues such as age, class, ethnicity, disability etc. Issues which poverty alleviation research also needs to take into account in order to get a more nuanced picture of people's lived experiences to help shape policy responses that are relevant and appropriate.

Series  There was limited engagement with the concept of rights across the studies and reproductive health rights were generally reduced to reproductive health services with a focus on maternal health outcomes rather than the women themselves.  Intimate partner violence was another under studied issue and given the importance of violence against women and girls for poverty, well-being, health, education and equality outcomes this needs to be addressed.  Harmful 'cultural' practices such as forced and early marriage, FGM, trafficking and bonded labour were little considered.  Transactional sex emerged as important for many women's livelihoods, and the openness to discussing this suggests it is an important area for future research.  Unpaid and paid care work was little discussed explicitly for adult women, but was recognised as reducing girls' life choices and chances.  Gendered mobility and access issues emerged as important, but technology and transport generally remain neglected areas in gendered research.  While women's employment was well covered, women's entrepreneurship and barriers to this, especially in times of financial crisis, was less discussed.  The rise of 'new poor' was documented in a number of countries and contexts but there was little gendered analysis of this.  Only a small number of studies looked at poverty and gender within the changing environmental context, and there was only one study on 'disasters' and one on climate change adaptation.  None of the studies analysed the effectiveness of international policy to improve gender equality and women's well-being. Recommendations  The awards have demonstrated there is an openness to collecting disaggregated data, and this needs to be built on to promote greater gender analysis of the differences noted. Subsequent calls might make clearer what is expected in 'good' gendered research and ensure the ability of the proposers to provide this. The inclusion of a 'gender analysis of findings' section in the EoAR would raise the profile of gender within the Joint Fund.  Some of the issues that are yet to be addressed by the Joint Fund highlight the need for a feminist analytical framework and also the need to ensure gender means the inclusion of both women and men in the studies.  If a future call seeks to explicitly address the gaps in knowledge identified, it would need to promote gender from being one of the cross cutting issues to being a central overarching research question.

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