Juanita Elias sat at a table, speaking in a meeting

Introducing new BISA Chair Juanita Elias: Priorities and plans for 2025-2027

In the video below, incoming BISA Chair Professor Juanita Elias (University of Warwick) introduces herself and her three top priorities for BISA during her tenure.

Working with the Director/CEO, BISA staff team and trustees, her aims are broadly:

  • Widening membership and engagement – including a new Post-92 group and Undergraduate Network
  • Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do - taking the lessons learnt from our Academy of Social Sciences/ESRC funded projects
  • Representing the discipline of International Studies - finding ways to input into key conversions including the upcoming Resarch Excellence Framework (REF).

Watch the video to find out more.

Juanita is a Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick. She is also deputy head of the department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick and also serves as her department’s director of equality, diversity and inclusion. Her research interests are in feminist political economy, the political economy of Southeast Asia, and studies of work and migration. She was co-lead convener of the International Political Economy working Group (IPEG) between 2020 and 2022. She is also currently serving as an editor at the Review of International Political Economy.

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