Ioanna Gkoutna

Email: ioanna.gkoutna.22[at]ucl.ac.uk
Bluesky: @IoannaGkoutna
I am a 4th year PhD candidate in Political Science at University College London (UCL). I was previously an Economic and Social Research Council scholar (Advanced Quantitative Methods stream) and a Next Economy Trust fellow. Before joining UCL, I completed an MPhil in Politics at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Warwick. I have also worked as a research assistant on a number of projects, including the ERC-funded SCHOOLPOL and Changing Elites projects.
​
My research is situated at the intersection of political behaviour and political sociology. I study household-level sources of gender inequalities in politics and the labour market, across a variety of empirical contexts. To study this topic, I collect original experimental and observational survey and micro-level qualitative data. ​
Working papers
Works in progress
-
Household Work and the Gendered Distribution of Power (with Sigrid Weber).
-
The Mental Load and Women's Political Engagement: Descriptive Evidence from Zambia (with Sigrid Weber). (Under review)
-
Pulling for the Party: Electoral Campaign Strategies and Information Embeddedness in Zimbabwe. (with Adam Harris and Nicole Beardsworth).
-
Party Activists in Zambia and Zimbabwe: Formal and Informal Networks, Information, and Voter Behaviour. (with Adam Harris and Nicole Beardsworth). (Accepted in edited volume)
-
Family Structure and Gender Norms: Exploring Global Trends in Daughter and Sibling Effects.
-
Gender, Household Dynamics, and Political Priority Formation (with Adam Harris). (Data collection in progress)
​
Teaching
Senior Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA)
-
2025-2026: Quantitative Data Analysis (POLS0083)
-
2024-2025: Quantitative Data Analysis (POLS0083)
-
PGTA Excellence in Student Feedback Award by UCL Politics
-
-
2023- 2024: Principles of Social Science Research (POLS0007)
-
PGTA Excellence in Student Feedback Award by UCL Politics
-
Guest Lecturer
-
Identity Politics: Prejudice, Inclusion and Equal Rights (POLS0058)