Section: Staff Profiles

Meryl Kenny

Name
Dr Meryl Kenny
Title
Post Doctoral Fellow
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
1.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 6973
E-Mail
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/meryl_kenny
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QUALIFICATIONS

  • BA Government and Dance (Skidmore College, USA)
  • MSc by Research (Edinburgh)
  • PhD (Edinburgh) 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Meryl Kenny is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Politics and International Relations. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2009. Her doctoral thesis - entitled 'Gendering Institutions: The Political Recruitment of Women in Post-Devolution Scotland' - was awarded the UK Political Studies Association Arthur McDougall Fund Prize for best dissertation in the field of elections, electoral systems, and representation in 2010.

Meryl's research interests include feminist institutionalism, women and comparative politics, political recruitment, political representation, and territorial politics. She is currently the network coordinator of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network. Meryl is also the co-convenor of the ECPR Gender and Politics Graduate Network (with Christina Alnevall, Stockholm University). Along with Dr. Fiona Mackay, she co-convenes the Gender and Politics Research Group in Politics & IR, as well as the Gender Reading Group (GRG). She is also a member of the Elections, Parties, and Public Opinion (EPOP) and Territorial Politics research groups.

Meryl currently lectures on the undergraduate honours course Contemporary Feminist Thought. She has also taught on Introduction to Politics and International Relations, Democracy in Comparative Perspective, Comparative Politics, and Social and Political Enquiry.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Articles:

Kenny, M. and F. Mackay (2009) 'Already doin' it for ourselves? Skeptical notes on feminism and institutionalism', Politics & Gender, 5 (2), pp. 271-280.

Kenny, M. (2007) 'Gender, Institutions and Power: A Critical Review', Politics, 27 (2), pp. 91-100.

Mackay, F. and M. Kenny (2007) 'Women's Representation in the 2007 Scottish Parliament: Temporary Setback or Return to the Norm?', Scottish Affairs, 60, pp. 25-38.

Book Chapters:

Kenny, M. (2010 forthcoming) 'Gender and Institutions of Political Recruitment: Candidate Selection in Post-Devolution Scotland' in M.L. Krook and F. Mackay (eds) Gender, Politics, and Institutions: Toward a Feminist Institutionalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Mackay, F. and M. Kenny (2010 forthcoming) 'Women and political representation in post-devolution Scotland: high time or high tide?' in P. Thane and E. Breitenbach (eds) Women and Citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the 20th Century: What difference did the vote make? London: Continuum.

Mackay, F. and M. Kenny (2009) 'Women's political representation and the SNP: gendered paradoxes and puzzles' in G. Hassan (ed) The Modern SNP: From Protest to Power. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 42-54.


 

This page was published on 26 February 2010


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