Profile
Rebecca Tapscott

Rebecca TAPSCOTT

VISITING LECTURER, INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMMES
Ambizione Research Fellow, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
Areas of expertise
  • Democratic governance
  • Democratic participation
  • State-building
  • Armed conflicts, violence
  • Critical security studies
  • Ethics of qualitative research
Geographical Region of Expertise
  • Sub-Saharan Africa

PROFILE
 

Rebecca Tapscott is an Ambizione Research Fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and a visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Politics and International Relations Department as well as at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include political violence, security, and non-democratic regimes; gender—particularly masculinities—and citizenship; international development; and research ethics governance. She is the author of "Arbitrary States: Social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda" (forthcoming with Oxford University Press). Rebecca's Ambizione project examines the transnational diffusion of ethics research regulations and the political consequences of this emergent regulatory framework for social sciences research, especially in non-democratic contexts. Rebecca also teaches at IHEID in the Power, Conflict, and Development Track. Rebecca holds a PhD from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is the recipient of the Alfred Rubin Prize from the Fletcher School and the International Studies Association’s Carl Beck award.

 

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Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters