Dr Eleanor Higgs

Biography

I am particularly interested in global discourses of gender, sexuality, and inequality in the ‘international development’ industry, with attention to the historical and contemporary contexts of colonial power relations.

Before coming to Gloucestershire, I worked at Brunel University of London, University of Cape Town, and SOAS University of London.

Qualifications

• PhD Gender Studies, SOAS University of London
• PhD Gender Studies, SOAS
• MSc Global Ethics, University of Birmingham
• BA (Hons) Philosophy and Theology, University of Greenwich

Accreditation

• Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA)

Membership of Professional Bodies

• British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR)

Teaching & research

Teaching

• Injustice, Resistance and Revolution
• Research and Enquiry (co-tutor)
• Christianity: Narrative Theology
• God, Politics and Power
• Dissertation in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics

Research

I have written about the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in Kenya, South Africa, the USA, and English-speaking Africa. In my monograph, Narrative Identity and Ethics in Postcolonial Kenya (2021), I draw on postcolonial feminisms, narrative theories, and the work of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians to explore ‘everyday Christian ethics’ through a study of the YWCA in Kenya.

In my current work, I am interested in using ‘transnational institutional ethnography’ as a methodological approach for studying global Christian organisations, particularly the World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA).

Publications

Publications from Dr Eleanor Tiplady Higgs can be found in the Research Repository.