Dr. Caitlyn Mcgeer

Biography

Caitlyn McGeer is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. She is the Principal Investigator of a British Academy research project titled Gender and Digital Repression, which focuses on the practices and toll of digital repression on women during authoritarian regimes. Caitlyn's research interests involve intersections of gender, technology, and human rights, with a particular emphasis on security issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is recognized as an expert in qualitative impact evaluation and assessment and has specialized in strategic development, contributing to local, national, and transnational-level projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Caitlyn has held senior management roles in various sectors, including non-governmental organizations, governmental bodies, and the United Nations. She currently leads qualitative evaluations related to gender and food insecurity under the Social Protection & Jobs Global Practice at the World Bank in Ethiopia. Caitlyn has earned a DPhil from the University of Oxford and has worked in Nigeria to evaluate how law enforcement agencies can operationalize United Nations protocols on trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants. She also lectures on qualitative methods related to law, sociology, and criminology at the University of Oxford and the University of Toronto.

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