About
Emily St.Denny is Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. Her works focuses on policymaking to reduce gender, health, and social inequalities, with a particular emphasis on France, the devolved United Kingdom, and the European Union. In this context, her work has investigated the development and implementation of ‘mainstreaming’ approaches to inequality reduction, including diversity and gender mainstreaming and the ‘Health in All Policies’ paradigm in public health. In addition to numerous journal articles on the subject, she has co-authored two books in this area (both with Oxford University Press): Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities Across Europe (2022) and Why isn’t Government Policy More Preventive (2020). Her current research agenda involves studying how evidence-based processes contribute to constructing gender and shaping gender inequalities in parental support policymaking in France and the UK. Emily’s teaching is closely informed by her research practice. She has introduced new flagship courses in gender perspectives on political science and public policy to her department with the help of other feminist colleagues. She also teaches graduate courses in critical policy studies and science and technology studies. Emily is also the co-editor of the first Handbook of Teaching Public Policy (forthcoming with Edward Elgar Publishing – January 2023). Her concern with the methodological implications of researching vulnerable populations and the development and use of feminist research methods is reflected in both her research and her teaching.
PUBLICATIONS
Cairney, Paul, Emily St Denny, and Sean Kippin. 2020. “Policy Learning to Reduce Inequalities: The Search for a Coherent Scottish Gender Mainstreaming Policy in a Multilevel UK.” Territory, Politics, Governance 9 (3): 412–33. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2020.1837661.
Cairney, Paul, Emily St Denny, Sean Kippin, and Heather Mitchell. 2022. “Lessons from Policy Theories for the Pursuit of Equity in Health, Education and Gender Policy.” Policy and Politics 50 (3): 362–83. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1332/030557321X16487239616498.
Cairney, Paul, Michael Keating, Sean Kippen, and Emily Flore St Denny. 2022. Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities across Europe: Hope versus Reality. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. Open Access. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/public-policy-to-reduce-inequalities-across-europe-9780192898586?cc=dk&lang=en&
Cairney, Paul, Emily St.Denny, and John Boswell. 2022. “Why Is Health Improvement Policy so Difficult to Secure?” Open Research Europe 2. Open Access. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.14841.2.
St. Denny, Emily. 2017. “The Gradual Transformation of a Weak but Enduring Regime: Contemporary French Prostitution Policy in Transition (1946–2016).” Modern & Contemporary France 25 (3): 299–314. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2017.1304902.
St Denny, Emily. 2014. “‘The Personal Is Political Science’: Epistemological and Methodological Issues in Feminist Social Science Research on Prostitution.” Journal of International Women’s Studies 16 (1): 76–90.
St Denny, Emily. 2020. “The Gender Equality Potential of New Anti‑prostitution Policy: A Critical Juncture for Concrete Reform.” French Politics, 153–74. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41253-020-00109-7.
St Denny, Emily. 2021. “Is Feminist Policy Evaluation Possible?: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations.” In A Research Agenda for Evaluation, edited by Peter Dahler-Larsen, 147–64. United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Cairney, Paul, and Emily St.Denny. 2020. Why Isn’t Government Policy More Preventive? United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. Open Access. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793298.001.0001.
Cairney, Paul, John Boswell, and Emily St.Denny. 2019. “The Politics of Institutionalizing Preventive Health.” Social Science & Medicine, 202–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.02.051
GEPPN: Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network 