About

Dr. Jeanette Ashe holds a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, teaches politics at Douglas College, BC, and is visiting faculty at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, King’s College, University of London. Her recent book is Political Candidate Selection: Who Wins, Who Loses and Under-representation in the UK (Routledge) and her other current publications include The Implementation of Equality-Based Candidate Selection Decisions in the British Labour and Conservative Parties (Palgrave), Canada’s Political Parties: Gatekeepers to Parliament (Palgrave), Gender Sensitivity Under Trudeau: Facebook Feminism or Real Change? (University of Toronto). Her other publications can be found in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Party Politics, British Politics, and the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. She advises parliaments, governments, parties, and non-governmental organisations on gender- and diversity-sensitive parliaments, gender equity policy, and democratic reform, and she’s appeared before Parliament as an expert witness on gender and political representation. 

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Email: ashej@douglascollege.ca

Twitter: @jeanetteashe