Dolores Calvo

Dolores Calvo holds a PhD in sociology and is a researcher and teacher at the Department of Government. She is currently working on a project on implementation of policies against sextortion in Tanzania, dealing with questions of abuse of power, sexual abuse, gender norms, coercion, and consent. She also works as an independent researcher and consultant in different projects related to gender, development and gender-based violence.

Dolores holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Gothenburg (2013). Her PhD thesis on gender and gender mainstreaming at EU level analyses discourses and representations of gender, policy developments of gender equality legislation, and the mainstreaming of gender in different policy areas with particular focus on migration, asylum and development cooperation policies. Dolores is working on a project on implementation of policies against sextortion in Tanzania, including questions of abuse of power, sexual abuse, gender norms, coercion and consent. She works as a researcher and consultant, collaborating with NGOs and government agencies in the following fields: gender, women’s reproductive rights, gender-based violence, sexual corruption, development and grassroots movements.