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Dr Rosie Walters

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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Email: WaltersR13@cardiff.ac.uk

Profile

Rosie Walters (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics. Her research explores how girls creatively find ways to be political in their everyday lives, even when they are excluded from formal decision-making forums, and the support they would like from adults to make change in their communities.  She has a long-running collaboration with international girls' rights NGO Plan International on a project about girls' everyday forms of resistance to gender inequalities. She also writes about understandings of girlhood, and childhood more broadly, in global politics.

Research

Publications

  • Walters, Rosie (2025) Girls, Power and International Development: Activism and Agency in the Global North and South, Bristol University Press.
  • Walters, Rosie (2024) “Gender Washing Meets Girl Power: The transnational politics of corporate-NGO partnerships for girls’ education,” in Rita Gardiner, Wendy Fox-Kirk, Carole Elliot and Valerie Stead (eds) Genderwashing in Leadership: Power, Policies and Politics, Emerald Group, 167-181.
  • Walters, Rosie, Jenny Rivett and Lilli Loveday (2024) “‘Girls Can’t Do This Alone’: Understanding girls’ agency during adolescence in nine countries,” in Mazzarella, Sharon (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Girl Studies, Routledge.
  • Walters, Rosie (2023) “The Girl Powering of Global Politics,” International Politics, 61, 361-378.
  • Loveday, Lilli, Jenny Rivett and Rosie Walters (2023) “Understanding Girls’ Everyday Acts of Resistance: Evidence from a longitudinal study in nine countries,” International Feminist Journal of Politics, 25:3, 244-265.
  • Walters, Rosie (2020) “Relinquishing Control in Focus Groups: The use of activities in feminist research with young people to improve moderator performance,” Qualitative Research, 20:4, 361-377.
  • Walters, Rosie (2018) “Reading Girls’ Participation in Girl Up as Feminist: Club members’ activism in the UK, USA and Malawi,” Gender and Development, 26:3, 477-493.
  • Walters, Rosie (2017) “‘This is My Story’: The reclaiming of girls’ education discourses in Malala Yousafzai’s autobiography,” Girlhood Studies, 10:3, 23-38.
  • Walters, Rosie (2016) “‘Shot Pakistani Girl’: The limitations of girls’ education discourses in UK media coverage of Malala Yousafzai,” British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 18:3, 650-670.

Expertise

Girlhood studies; gender and development; International Relations; International Political Economy.
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