School of Social and Political Science

Background

I am a PhD Candidate in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. My research explores how states with explicitly feminist ambitions, through their feminist foreign policies, understand and tackle the intersecting challenges of climate change and gender inequality. My project Feminist Foreign Policy at the Face of a Climate Emergency is funded by the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences (SGSSS) and supervised by Claire Duncanson and Annika Bergman Rosamond.

I am currently a tutor on the course Politics and International Relations 1A: Concepts and Debates.

Before starting my doctoral degree, I worked as a journalist for Swedish newspapers, public service television and radio. I have also worked in civil society.

PUBLICATIONS

• Bergman Rosamond, A. & Walfridsson, H. (2025). The timeliness of peace: Why the EU should engage with feminism. The Progressive Post, April 16.
• Walfridsson, H. (2023). The Rise and Fall of the First Feminist Foreign Policy – Understanding Sweden’s Unprecedented Policy Approach Between 2014 – 2022 and the Role of Norm Entrepreneurship (Master’s thesis). Malmö University.
• Walfridsson, H. (2022). Sweden’s New Government Abandons Feminist Foreign Policy. Human Rights Watch, October 31.

EDUCATION

• MA in Political Science, Malmö University (2021-2023)
• BSc in Media and Communication Studies and Journalism, Uppsala University (2018-2021)
  • With a minor in Peace and Conflict studies, Uppsala University
  • Erasmus exchange at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex