The Opportunity

This PhD project will investigate the relationship between misogyny as an ideology, social practice and mobilising force, and its role in contemporary forms of political violence and transnational digital repression. Drawing on emerging interdisciplinary research, the project will examine how misogynistic norms and beliefs intersect with violent narratives online and their role in broader socio-political grievances, armed conflict, extremist movements and the foreign policy of hostile states to drive acts of violence against politically-active women, including leaders, politicians, human rights defenders and humanitarian workers.

The successful candidate will explore key questions such as: What are the underlying drivers that connect misogyny to gendered political violence? How do online ecosystems, offline subcultures and digital platform dynamics facilitate the spread and normalisation of misogynistic extremism? In what ways do gendere...