Audrey Alejandro

Associate, LSE

Audrey Alejandro

Audrey is an Assistant Professor in Qualitative Text Analysis at the London School of Economics. Her current research project investigates the knowledge capacities and discursive strategies of small island-states regarding sustainability, environment and climate change, with a special interest for the Commonwealth of Dominica.

Background

Before joining LSE in 2018, Audrey held faculty positions in International Relations and Political Science at Queen Mary University London and Sciences Po Bordeaux, where she graduated with a Ph.D. in 2015. She also held visiting positions at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and at the Instituto de Relações Internacionais, University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is chair of the British International Studies Association working group ‘IR as a social science’, co-convener of the International Political Sociology network Doing IPS, co-founder and co-convener of the Francophone Association of Caribbean Studies.

Research Interests

  • Discourses of climate resilience;
  • Sustainable knowledge;
  • Community-based/participatory research and development;
  • Qualitative methods;
  • Reflexivity.