Dr Ewa K. Strzelecka

​I am a transdisciplinary scholar working across political science, social anthropology, gender, migration, and peace and conflict studies. A Ramón y Cajal award recipient and former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, I am currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Associate Fellow at CARPO—Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient.
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My research explores how people mobilise, resist exclusion and negotiate political change amid revolution, armed conflict and displacement. I focus particularly on women’s movements, feminist peacebuilding, conflict mediation and transnational activism in Yemen and the wider Middle East and North Africa region. Drawing on sustained ethnographic fieldwork, I examine the connections between everyday political struggles, diaspora engagement and peace processes.
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I combine academic research with policy advising and consultancy for international organisations, public institutions and civil society. Most recently, I have led research on women’s local mediation in Yemen for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and assessed the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda in Yemen for Chemonics UK through the Yemen Support Facility, funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). My earlier assignments include, among others, advising the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation on gender equality in diplomacy; evaluating a UN Democracy Fund-supported project on women’s political participation in Yemen for Club de Madrid; and conducting GIZ-funded research on civil society and peacebuilding through CARPO and its partners.
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Between 2021 and 2024, I led the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie project Peace Women: Rethinking Peacebuilding—Women, Revolution, Exile and Conflict Resolution in Yemen at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The project examined Yemeni women’s activism across borders and their participation in efforts to shape peace and political change.
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I hold a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Granada, alongside postgraduate qualifications in social anthropology, cultural and religious studies, gender and development, and migration and social intervention. I have held academic positions in Poland, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, complemented by visiting fellowships and research stays in the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Spain, Chech Republic, the United States, India, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan and South Africa. My field research spans 15 countries across the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Latin America. 

My research and publications have received awards from the University of Granada, the Spanish Association of Political Science and the Spanish National Research Council.
 
My book, Women in the Arab Spring: Constructing a Political Culture of Feminist Resistance in Yemen (Mujeres en la Primavera Árabe: construcción de una cultura política de resistencia feminista en Yemen, CSIC, 2017), examines women’s organising and the construction of a political culture of feminist resistance in Yemen.
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I welcome enquiries about research collaborations, policy consultancy, invited lectures, workshops and media commentary.

Please contact me at e.strzelecka@lse.ac.uk.
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