Biography

Ellie Gore is a Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Manchester. They joined the department in 2021 from the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) at the University of Sheffield. Ellie previously held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Global Challenges Research Fellowship at SPERI and in the Department of Politics at Sheffield.

Ellie's research expertise are in queer and trans political economy, with a particular focus on gender, sexuality, and the political economy of development. Their research examines how development policies and processes—from LGBTQ+ rights and HIV to labour and decent work—impact on gendered and sexual power relations. Between 2022-25, Ellie was the PI on an ESRC New Investigators project that examined gendered patterns of labour exploitation among migrant workers in the Ghanaian economy. Ellie has extensive research experience in Ghana and has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Ghana. Ellie has recently begun a new research project that explores the political economy of anti-gender politics. 

Ellie has published their work in journals including Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Globalizations, International Feminist Journal of Politics, The Journal of Development Studies, and Capital and Class. 

Contact

Email: [email protected]

My research is located at the interface between global political economy, global development, and gender and sexuality studies, with a geographic focus on West Africa. I am particularly interested in the following empirical and theoretical topics/questions:

- Global development policy on health and decent work and its impact on marginalised economic actors, namely LGBTQ+ people, sex workers, and migrant women

- Feminist political economy and social reproduction approaches, including queer and trans social reproduction

- Queer theory and the political economy of the body

- Unfree labour and gendered migration processes in the global economy and in Ghana specifically

I would be interested in supervising PhD students whose research interests/project align with my expertise.