RINCE Deputy Director

Email: sara.clavero@tudublin.ie

Tel: 01 220 5424

Profile
Sara is a Research Fellow at the EDI Directorate at TU Dublin and Deputy Director of RINCE. She holds a doctorate in Political Science from Queens University Belfast. Sara has over 25 years of professional experience as a researcher within the disciplines of Philosophy, Sociology, Politics and Law and a strong commitment to interdisciplinarity in research with a focus on social justice and equality.  Having previously worked as a researcher in gender politics and policy in the EU, since 2016 she has also been involved in EU projects focused on advancing equity and inclusiveness in academic and research institutions in Europe with a particular focus on widening countries. Sara is also a certified trainer on EDI in Research and Innovation (R&I) and holds an AURORA certificate from Advance HE on women’s leadership in HE and Research organisations.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5482-7108 

Research interests:
Feminist political theory; gender policy and politics in the EU; equality and inclusion in R&I.   

Selected publications: 
Delaney, C. Bobek, A. and Clavero, S (2023). It was too much for me: Mental load, mothers and working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Frontiers in Psychology-Organizational Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1208099

Bobek, A., Clavero, S., Ryan, M. and Gavigan, S. (2023). The COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland and the Gendered Division of Care Work: The Impact of the Pandemic on Childcare,  Policy, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 30(3): 949-971.  https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxad011 

Rosa, R. and Clavero, S. (2022). Gender equality in Higher Education and Research,  Journal of Gender Studies, 31 (1): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2022.2007446 

Clavero, Sara and Yvonne Galligan (2021). Delivering gender justice in academia through gender equality plans? Normative and practical challenges, Gender, Work & Organisation 28(3): 1115-1132. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12658 
Rosa, R. and Clavero, S. (2021). The challenge of neoliberalism and precarity for gender sensitivity in academia. In E. Drew and Canavan, S. (eds) The Gender-Sensitive University, London: Routledge. 

Clavero, S. and Galligan, Y. (2020). Analysing gender and institutional change in academia: evaluating the utility of feminist institutionalist approaches, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 42(6): 650-666.  https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2020.1733736 

Galligan, Y. and Clavero, S (2019) How epistemic justice can inform gender equality in a technological university, Irish Journal of Academic Practice,  8 (1). https://doi.org/10.21427/w5jg-nq60