Camille Maubert

Camille works in research within both academia and as a practitioner. Her areas of academic specialisation are gender and violence, including women-led community protection, social norms change and positive masculinity. Most of her current research is carried out in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As a development practitioner and consultant, she also worked on protection and gender programming, as well as prevention of sexual exploitation and human trafficking. Camille's current research looks at development interventions which aim to change local gender norms in order to tackle gender-based violence in the eastern DR Congo. It aims to gauge the effectiveness of the approaches used and identify their limitations. It does so by 1) analysing how the concept of 'change' is articulated by development actors and how that shapes the effects of resulting interventions ; 2) exploring how people understand and navigate gender norms change in everyday life.

Key research interests include:

• Decolonial and historical approaches to change
• Gender change as political, everyday violence and its effects on gender relationships
• Individual and collective behaviour change
• Resistance to change
• Backlash and unintended consequences of change
• Transformative gender work
• Masculinity
• Sexual and reproductive health
• Behaviour and attitude change methodologies
• Development learning and impact monitoring.