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Current research projects

Juanita's explores the gender politics of economic competitiveness in Malaysia. This book considers how and why a concern with economic competitiveness has come to dominate development policy-making in Malaysia and how gender issues come to be attached (or not) to this agenda.

Juanita is also actively involved in promoting feminist and/or gendered perspectives in IPE. See for example her work on the 2018 . She has also convened a of the journal Politics & Gender on the need to better integrate insights from Feminist Security Studies and Feminist Political Economy. She has also published on what it means to bring feminist IPE into conversation with current work on the 'everyday' in IR and IPE.

Her British Council Newton Funded project looking at women's experiences of urban resettlement in Jakarta was shortlisted for the 2019 . More recently, Juanita's externally funded research includes projects looking at and working with an affordable housing NGO in the international development sector, Reall, to develop a gender-aligned funding strategy.

Research grants (selected)

• Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) (£214,188) with to embed gender and climate expertise into Reall’s income generation and grant capture activities, 2025-2027 (PI with Jonathan Clarke and Reall)
• ESRC Impact Accelerator Account Evolving Impact Fund (£24,992) for the project 'Building impact:

  Practitioner engagement for gender sensitive housing solutions', 2025 (PI).

• Innovate UK Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (AKT) Grant (£32,945) for the project 'Leveraging gender knowledge to enable sustainable income generation for affordable housing initiatives' (PI, co-applicants: Natalie Rothwell and ), 2024 .
• British Council Going Global Gender Partnership Fund (£25,000) for the project 'Empowering women in STEM in Indonesia: EMPOWER-SI' (PI, co-applicants Ella Prihatini and Lena Rethel), 2023- 4.
• 2022 ÌÇÐÄTV-Monash Alliance Education Fund £14,991 ‘Global Groupwork: Cross-Border Student Projects on the International Political Economy of Everyday Life’ (joint PI with Tom Chodor)
• British Council Newton Fund (£83,000) for the project 'The everyday political economy of resettlement: Urban design, women's empowerment and the rehousing of low income groups from Jakarta' (PI, co-applicants Lena Rethel, Lisa Tilley and Chusnul Mariyah) see project website , 2017-18.
• ESRC Impact Acceleration Account award (£14000) for the Commission on the Crisis of Care in Austerity Britain (Co-I - PI Shirin Rai) 2015.
• Political Studies Association of the UK (£5,000) for the Commission on the Crisis of Care in Austerity Britain, (Co-I - PI Shirin Rai, other co-applicants Ruth Pearson, Daniele Tepe, Fawcett Society and Women's Budget Group) 2015.
• Griffith University Area of Strategic Investment (ASI) award and Griffith Asia Institute funding for the workshop ‘The global political economy of the household in Asia’ (AU$27,000), 2011.
• Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (AUD$681,2000) for the project ‘The Gender Politics of Economic Competitiveness in Southeast Asia’ (project ref #FT0991711), 2010-2014.
• Australasian Political Science Association (APSA) (AUD$6374) workshop grant for the workshop ‘Re-engaging Asia’ held at the University of Adelaide, September 2008.
• University of Adelaide Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences strategic initiatives grant (conference hosting) for the workshop ‘The Sociological Turn in IPE’ AUD$2,500, 2007.
• Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, three month Visiting Research fellowship, 2006 (fully funded – salary and travel costs).
• Qantas Researcher Travel Support Scheme, University of Adelaide ‘Labour standards and gender in SE Asia’, AUD$3,000, 2005.
• British International Studies Association workshop grant (£1,500) for the conference Hegemonic Masculinities in International Politics, 2005.
• European Commission, European Studies Programme, ASEAN-EU Junior Research Scholarship (£3,000) to fund research in Malaysia and Thailand, 1999.