I am a political scientist focusing on politics and gender, and I hold a position in the CMI management team as the Interim U4 Director.

My research concerns questions of politics and gender with a focus on political representation, political recruitment, violence, rights mobilisation, and law reform in the Global South.

My academic experience includes field research in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries such as Cape Verde, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. I have published articles in several journals including Comparative Political Studies, International Political Science Review, Politics & Gender, Political Studies, Representation, and Journal of Modern African Studies. 

I use both quantitative and qualitative methods in my work and have been involved in multiple projects funded by the Research Council of Norway. Currently I am the PI of the FRIPRO funded research project The Cost of Doing Politics: Gender Aspects of Political Violence and a member of the the ERC funded research project Gender-Gap in Political Endurance. I am an Affiliated Scholar in the Program on Governance and Local Development at the University of Gothenburg.

(Publications and more details are available on Vibeke's profile page on the CMI website)