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The QUALREP project aims to produce a theoretically-driven analysis of the quality of women’s representation, attentive to intersectional and ideological diversity and with concern for the most marginalised.
In a time when achieving women’s equal political participation and representation is formally recognized as a priority under commitments such as the UN SDGs and the EU Gender Equality Strategy, representative democracy continues to fail in the delivery of political equality for all women, in particular marginalised and minoritised women.
This “poverty of representation” experienced by minority women across democracies, whose voices, interests and experiences are excluded from policy and debate is heightened in periods of natural and human-made crises and changes, and particularly in the face of anti-democratic backsliding and the rise of populist, anti-gender movements.
QUALREP addresses this urgent need for renewed research on women’s political representation by investigating the institutional features which incentivize better representation and enhance connection, legitimacy and positive symbolism between women and their representatives and representative institutions.
Through a comparative empirical analysis across five European nations — Belgium, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and the UK — QUALREP is committed to produce recommendations for policy-influencing and work with stakeholders to ensure their impact, thus contributing to contemporary debates on democracy’s fragility, inequality, and the need for institutional redesign to address systemic injustices.
By advancing a theoretically sophisticated, intersectional, and empirically grounded understanding of women’s political representation, QUALREP makes the case that through improving the representation of all women, the wider health of representative democracy is supported in the face of its contemporary existential challenges.
| Research Centre | Research Group | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIES-Iscte | -- | Partner | 2024-06-27 | 2028-09-30 |
| Institution | Country | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| King’s College London (King’s College London) | United Kingdom | Leader | 2023-10-01 | 2028-09-30 |
| The University of Edinburgh (The University of Edinburgh) | United Kingdom | Leader | 2023-10-01 | 2028-09-30 |
| Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) | Belgium | Partner | 2023-10-01 | 2028-09-30 |
| London South Bank University (LSBU) | United Kingdom | Partner | 2023-10-01 | 2028-09-30 |
| Stockholms universitet (SU) | Sweden | Partner | 2023-10-01 | 2028-09-30 |
| Name | Affiliation | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ana Espírito-Santo | Professora Associada (DCPPP); Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); | Local Coordinator | 2024-06-27 | 2028-09-30 |
| Sofia Oliveira | Research Assistant (CIES-Iscte); | Research Assistant | 2024-07-08 | 2028-09-30 |
| Reference/Code | Funding DOI | Funding Type | Funding Program | Funding Amount (Global) | Funding Amount (Local) | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP/Y023471/1 | -- | Contract | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council / Approved ERC Synergy grant now administered and funded by UKRI due to Brexit - --- - United Kingdom | 6308963.81 | 32528.74 | 2023-10-01 | 2028-09-30 |
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With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific projects with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified for this project. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.
