School of Social and Political Science

Dr Larissa Peixoto Gomes

Postdoctoral research fellow

A close up of the face a mixed-race, Brazilian woman, earing dark-rimmed glasses and dark red lipstick. She has chin-level, curly hair, and is in the middle of speaking, as if in an interview.
lpeixoto@ed.ac.uk
https://www.larissapeixoto.com/
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Chrystal MacMillan
15a George Square

Research interests

Gender Politics Research Group Identities & Inequalities Politics and political violence Race and decolonial thought

Background

Larissa Peixoto Gomes is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Quality of Women's Representation (QUALREP) project. She holds a bachelor's in Social Sciences and a Master's and a PhD in Political Science, all from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, having defended the dissertation What, how, and who: the substantive representation of women in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Sweden in 2019. Her research focusses on issues of political representation, inequality, and marginalised groups. 

She is an expert in Brazilian politics, comparative politics, and gender and decolonialism. She has a particular love for electoral systems, open data, and making cool charts.

She has worked for the Núcleo de Estudos em Segurança Pública (Nesp), the Wales Centre for Public Policy, and the Wales Governance Centre/Wales Fiscal Analysis and given interviews for the BBC, ITV, and Globo News.

But the most fun she ever had was doing her own podcast  Brazil Nuts: an insane journey through the world of Brazilian politics.

Works within

Larissa Peixoto-gomes's Research Explorer profile