Sangwon Park

I'm currently in the final year of my PhD. My dissertation explores the role of girls' education in promoting gender equality in post-genocide Rwanda, taking Amartya Sen's capability approach as an analytical tool in assessing the ways in which girls' education reshapes gender roles and relations in the public and private spheres. The research focus is placed on whether gender equality policies, such as girls' education, empower women for their own sake or instrumentalise them for broader national development gains.   His research interests include:

• Gender and Development
• Masculinities and Men-Engage Approach
• Post-Conflict Reconstruction
• Education
• Politics of International Development
• Decolonisation of Knowledge
• Qualitative Research Methods
• East Africa (including Rwanda, Kenya)