
Dr Rosie Walters
Lecturer in International Relations
- waltersr13@cardiff.ac.uk
- 2.19, Law Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX
Overview
My research analyses girls’ negotiation of girl power discourses in international politics. My most recent research analysed how girls participating in an international development campaign to fund girls’ education in the Global South adapted it to fit their more radical vision of what girls’ empowerment might look like. I adopt a feminist, postcolonial and poststructuralist theoretical approach to explore how girls’ opportunities and capabilities are constructed in the Global North and South, and the agency and creativity they show in expanding those opportunities. My previous research has also analysed the activism of Malala Yousafzai and her negotiation of attempts to co-opt her story into dominant, post-9/11 discourses about Pakistan and Islam. I have previously worked for the British Red Cross and Plan International UK.
Biography
I have a BA in French and Italian, an MSc in Gender and International Relations, an MSc in Social Science Research Methods (Politics) and a PhD, all from the University of Bristol. I have previously worked for the British Red Cross, Royal National Lifeboat Institution and Plan International UK.
Publications
2020
- Walters, R. 2020. Relinquishing control in focus groups: the use of activities in feminist research with young people to improve moderator performance. Qualitative Research 20, pp. 361-377. (10.1177/1468794119847633)
2019
- Walters, R. 2019. ‘This is my story’: the reclaiming of girls’ education discourses in Malala Yousafzai’s autobiography. In: Smith, A. ed. The Girl in the Text. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books
2018
- Walters, R. 2018. Reading girls’ participation in Girl Up as feminist: club members’ activism in the UK, USA and Malawi. Gender and Development 26(3), pp. 477-493. (10.1080/13552074.2018.1523287)
2017
- McGlinchey, S., Walters, R. and Gold, D. 2017. Getting started with international relations theory. In: McGlinchey, S., Walters, R. and Scheinpflug, C. eds. International Relations Theory. Bristol: E-International Relations Publishing
- Walters, R. 2017. 'This is my story': The reclaiming of girls’ education discourses in Malala Yousafzai’s autobiography. Girlhood Studies 10(3), pp. 23-38. (10.3167/ghs.2017.100304)
- McGlinchey, S., Walters, R. and Scheinpflug, C. eds. 2017. International relations theory. Bristol: E-International Relations Publishing.
2016
- Walters, R. 2016. 'Shot Pakistani girl': The limitations of girls education discourses in UK newspaper coverage of Malala Yousafzai. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 18(3), pp. 650-670. (10.1177/1369148116631274)
Teaching
I teach the second-year module "The Power and Politics of Research Methods" and the third-year module "Representing Development."