Dr Eleanor Tiplady Higgs
Lecturer in Sociology
Marie Jahoda 201
- Email: eleanor.higgs@brunel.ac.uk
- Social Science and Communications
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Research area(s)
- Gender and religion
- Christianity and Christian institutions
- YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) movement
- Postcolonial and decolonial feminisms
- Ethics
- History and present day effects of coloniality in English-speaking Africa (especially Kenya and South Africa)
I have held research fellowships at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (2020-21), and at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) at the University of Ghana (2022).
Research grants and projects
Research Projects
Grants
“In service for the girls of the world”: The transnational influence of the YWCA of the USA, 1947–2023.
Funder: British Academy
Duration: May 2023 - October 2023
Funder: British Academy
Duration: May 2023 - October 2023
"Christianity and Feminism in World YWCA Discourse: Perspectives from Accra and Johannesburg"
Funder: The Maria Sibylla Merian Centres Programme of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant n° [01 UK2024A]), and the University of Ghana
Duration: May 2022 - July 2022
Funder: The Maria Sibylla Merian Centres Programme of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant n° [01 UK2024A]), and the University of Ghana
Duration: May 2022 - July 2022
Junior Fellow, Merian Institute for Advanced Study in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana, Legon