Carolina Osorio Gil is a PhD candidate in Development Sociology at Cornell University’s Department of Global Development where she studies epistemic and ontological strategies of resistance by rural communities (campesina/os) to large-scale development in Latin America. Carolina will present on her dissertation research project, a participatory and ethnographic study in partnership with the Movimiento Ríos Vivos (Living Rivers Movement), a campesina/o movement that is in resistance to Hidroituango, the largest hydroelectric project in Colombia.

David Lametti was the justice minister of Canada who oversaw the expansion of the Medical Assistance in Dying law to allow assisted suicide on the basis of psychiatric illness. With the UK set to vote on assisted dying legislation, and the controversies surrounding the Canadian case, David will be speaking on his experiences and lessons learned.

Are Female Politicians Less Supportive of Conflict? Chris Butler (University of Antwerp)P, Emma van der Goot, (University of Amsterdam), Pirmin Bundi, (University of Lausanne), Ondřej Císař, (Charles University Prague), Toni van der Meer, (University of Amsterdam)

Gendered Abuse and Intimidation in the Local Elections and General Elections in the UK, Rosario Grima AlgoraP, Hannah Phillips, Ziyu Deng (all University of Oxford)

Party Competition and the Gender Vote Gap at the 2024 British General Election, Rosie Campbell (Kings College, London), Ceri Fowler (University of Oxford), Anna Sanders (University of York) and Rosalind Shorrocks (University of Manchester)

Gender-Generation Gaps and Progressivism: The Relationship Between Values and Vote Choice, Liran Harsgor (University of Haifa)P and Maria Grasso (Queen Mary University of London)