Dr. Jennifer Thomson is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath, UK. Her main research interests are gender and foreign policy (particularly the concept of a 'feminist' foreign policy); gender and security; women’s rights in post-conflict divided societies; and sexual and reproductive health and rights in international policy-making. From 2022-2026 she is PI on the ESRC New Investigator project Gender in Foreign Policymaking: the academic and policy implications of feminist foreign policy. This project considers the growth and meaning of states' increasing attention to gender equality in their foreign policies.