Gender Policy Research Program

Mission

Established in January 2025, the Gender Policy Research Program (GPRP)'s mission is to connect students, faculty, and staff conducting research on gender and policy across the University.

Priorities

Community Building

Colleagues across the University noted the need for a community connecting students, faculty, and staff conducting research on gender and policy across campus. GPRP hopes to bridge the gap between programs, departments, institutes, and schools through networking, collaboration, workshops, events, and more.

Community Building Opportunities

Our Gender Policy Community Hour is held virtually on the second Friday of each month from 12-1pm. All GW community members are welcome to join to discuss their current projects and network with fellow gender policy scholars. To join the Community Hour calendar invite list, sign up here.

Our monthly newsletter features student, faculty, and staff spotlights, events and community building opportunities, research, funding, and work opportunities, and more.

The new GPRP blog features the latest news on GPRP, community building and networking opportunities, and writing from gender policy scholars across the University.

Research Promotion & Dissemination

In collaboration with our partners, GPRP aims to promote and disseminate student, faculty, and staff research on policy issues related to gender. This includes the publication of policy briefs, reports, literature reviews, pre-prints, white papers, commentaries, blog posts, etc. from GW community members. Community members can submit their writing here to be featured on our website, blog, or newsletter.

Research Seminars & Workshops

Starting this fall, GPRP will host research seminars and workshops on a variety of topics for the gender policy community at GW.

Faculty and Staff

Lauryn King, GPRP Director

Affiliated Faculty

Cynthia Deitch, Associate Professor Emerita of WGSS, Sociology, and Public Policy and Public Administration

Ivy Ken, Associate Professor of Sociology, WGSS, and Public Policy

Sanjay Pandey, Shapiro Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration

Eiko Strader, Associate Professor of Public Policy, WGSS, and Sociology

Partners

Department of Sociology

Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity

Jacobs Institute of Women's Health

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

Resources