Prof Nata Duvvury is development expert with research interests in gender, labour markets and welfare state, gendered impacts of globalization, economic costs of gender based violence, civil society and global governance, and social mobilization. Prof Duvvury has extensive international research and program experience in gender and development, with particular emphasis on gender inequality, domestic violence, rights-based approached to development, and civil society participation and accountability. She has authored more than 100 research reports, peer-review journal articles and papers in edited books. Prof Duvvury contributed a chapter to the recent Secretary Generals report on Violence Against Women, which was introduced in the General Assembly of the United Nations on October 9, 2006.

Her current research is focused on three main issues. The issue of estimating costs of violence within developing countries is an key area of her research interest. She was the lead author of the Costs of Intimate Partner Violence at the Household and Community Levels: An Operational Framework for Developing Countries in 1999, which was the first attempt to layout a operational framework relevant to developing countries. She also led the first multi-country study on Estimating Costs of Intimate Partner Violence at Household and Community Levels , funded by UNFPA between 2006-2009.  Prof. Duvvury led a four-year multi-country study on social and economic costs of violence against women and girls with funding from UK Department for International Development from 2014 to 2020.  She have been invited by several governments including Ethiopia, Jordan, Mongolia, and Palestine to  conduct specific costing studies in the respective countries between 2021 and 2024. She is now Senior Scientitifc Advisor to the Lancet Commission on Violence Against Women and Violence Against Women Children co-leading the chapter on economic and socialcosts of violence.

Another area of her research is focused on gender, labour markets and welfare state. Under this broad theme, she has worked on issues of older women workers access to pensions, gendered impacts of recession and austerity and more recently on precarious employment and older workers. She received funding from CARDI to lead a cross-border research on pensions and older women and published a number of reports and articles. She worked closely with Aine Ni Leime to submit a successful proposal for a COST Action on Gender and Health Impacts of Extended Working Life and is Work Package Leader on Policy Toolkits.

She is also involved in understanding the effectiveness of equality mainstreaming in higher education insitutions.  Prof Duvvury is currently completing research developing an intersectional discrimination index in Irish universities.

She has received grants from international and donors including World Bank, UNFPA, UN Women, UK Government, CARDI, Department of Foreign Affairs, and HEA. While at the International Center for Research on Women in Washington DC she received grants from GATES Foundation, Levi Strauss Foundation, Ford Foundation, UNFPA, and USAID.

Research interests include gender impacts of globalization; gender, labour, and welfare state; gender and financial crisis; womens economic empowerment; and economic costs of gender based violence

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