Katherine Daisy-Gard

Development Studies (2024 cohort)

Katherine Daisy-Gard is a DPhil candidate in International Development at the University of Oxford, funded by the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership of the Economic and Social Research Council. Her research interests concern the intersection of climate change, gender, and justice, alongside the representation and social production of sexual violence. Katherine's doctoral project examines how gender is constructed in climate litigation and seeks to advance discussions of how legal processes can better address the gender-related impact of climate change. Engaging with feminist and queer approaches, her work aims to enrich the discourse on climate justice while interrogating the role of law in shaping equitable environmental futures.

Katherine has an interdisciplinary academic background in the Social Sciences with a specific focus on Gender Studies. She earned a BA in Social Sciences from King’s College London and holds an MPhil in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Her professional experience spans academic research, teaching, and project management. Katherine has worked on research projects at King’s College London, which investigate the application of intersectionality in international human rights law, and contributed to interuniversity initiatives that promote Education for Sustainability across British higher education institutions. Her diverse teaching experience includes leading English language and pedagogical training in Uruguay, Europe, and the UK, with a focus on inclusive education. More recently, she served as a Lecturer and Tutor for Pre-Sessional English at the University of Exeter. Her voluntary work includes collaborating with Terre des Hommes to amplify youth voices in intergenerational justice dialogues at the 2021 World Congress on Justice with Children and working with Restless Development to develop sexual health education initiatives in Zimbabwe.