Dr Eleanor Tiplady Higgs
Honorary Research Fellow - SPS
Marie Jahoda 201
- Email: eleanor.higgs@brunel.ac.uk
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Research area(s)
- Gender and religion
- Christianity and Christian institutions
- YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) movement
- Postcolonial and decolonial feminisms
- Ethics
- History and present day effects of coloniality in English-speaking Africa (especially Kenya and South Africa)
I have held research fellowships at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (2020-21), and at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) at the University of Ghana (2022).
Research grants and projects
Grants
“In service for the girls of the world”: The transnational influence of the YWCA of the USA, 1947–2023.
Funder: British Academy
Duration: May 2023 - October 2023
Funder: British Academy
Duration: May 2023 - October 2023
"Christianity and Feminism in World YWCA Discourse: Perspectives from Accra and Johannesburg"
Funder: The Maria Sibylla Merian Centres Programme of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant n° [01 UK2024A]), and the University of Ghana
Duration: May 2022 - July 2022
Funder: The Maria Sibylla Merian Centres Programme of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant n° [01 UK2024A]), and the University of Ghana
Duration: May 2022 - July 2022
Junior Fellow, Merian Institute for Advanced Study in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana, Legon