Diane Elson has been a prominent member of the department since 2000.  She has now officially retired but will be keeping her links with the department.

‘It is within gender and development… that Elson’s pioneering and enduring contribution to scholarship is most apparent. No student of gender and development in any part of the world today completes a course at undergraduate or postgraduate level without some exposure to Elson. Given Elson’s on-going ventures into cutting-edge issues in the GAD field … and with their hallmark rigour and vision, this situation is unlikely to change for a long time to come. In turn, there is absolute certainty that Elson will be present as one of GAD’s outstanding scholars and ambassadors in any retrospective review of gender and development that may be compiled in the future’

Sylvia Chant (2005) ‘Diane Elson’

A retirement conference for was held on Friday July 26th 2013 at the University. Many of the participants are pictured above.  This was the programme:

Feminism, Economy and Human Rights

10.50 Brief Introduction by Professor Mark Harvey

11.00-12.30 Political Economy

Professor Sue Himmelweit, Open University: ‘Follow the money: Diane’s Elson’s contribution to gender budgeting’

Professor Tracey Warren, Nottingham University: ‘Gender and the economic crisis: Elson’s 3 Sphere Framework’

Professor Georgina Waylen, Manchester University: ‘Feminist Political Economy: Taking Stock and Future Directions?’

12.30 – 1.15  Buffet Lunch

1.15 – 2.45 Development studies

Professor Sylvia Chant, London School of Economics: ‘Diane Elson:  A tribute to her early and on-going contributions to ‘en-gendering’ the ‘development agenda’’

Professor Shirin Rai, University of Warwick: ‘Depletion: the cost of social reproduction’

3 – 4.30 Human Rights

Professor Maxine Molyneux, University College London: ‘Who remembers Beijing? Women’s rights in a cold climate’
Professor Lydia Morris, University of Essex: Sociology and Human Rights

4.45 – 6.15 Final Panel: Reflections and Future Directions

Professor Diane Elson
Professor Ruth Pearson, Leeds University
Dr Jasmine Gideon, Birkbeck
Dr Marzia Fontana, Sussex University

Followed by a wine reception, and dinner