Dr Adrienne Roberts

Biography

Adrienne Roberts is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of  Manchester. She specializes in feminist international political economy with a particular focus on the gendered relations of finance, debt, development, and trade. Current research  projects include (1) projects funded by SSHRC and SSHRC/ESRC on gendering global trade (with Erin Hannah and Silke Trommer); (2) research on gender, financial inclusion and entrepreneurship promotion in Pakistan (with Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar); and (3) research on the  gendered relations of debt and finance in contemporary and historical perspective. She has  published extensively in academic journals in the fields of International Political Economy, International Relations, Gender Studies and Development Studies. Her most recent books are Feminist Global Political Economies of the Everyday (with Juanita Elias, Routledge, 2018), Handbook of the International Political Economy of Gender (with Juanita Elias, Edward Elgar, 2018), and Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare (Routledge, 2017). She is co-editor of the journal New  Political  Economy and the book series Global Political Economies of Gender and Sexuality (published by Rowman & Littlefield International).