School of Social and Political Science

Dr Larissa Peixoto Gomes

Postdoctoral research fellow

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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.

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do Nascimento de Almeida H, Peixoto Gomes L, Sérgio Araújo Dias M, Mirian Pereira de Souza R. Fazendo campanha política com 280 caracteres: Padrões e tendências do uso do Twitter nas eleições para as prefeituras brasileiras em 2020. Conexão Política. 2024 Sept 16;1-33. doi: 10.26694/2317-3254.rcp.v11i2.6131
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Peixoto Gomes L, Poole EG. The impact of immigration in Wales and the Immigration Health Surcharge. Wales Fiscal Analysis, 2023. 24 p.
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Peixoto Gomes L. Tweets don’t vote: Twitter discourse from Wales and England during Brexit. Frontiers in Sociology. 2023 Nov 16;8:1-12. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1176732
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Peixoto Gomes L, Poole EG. Labour Market Update for Wales. Wales Fiscal Analysis, 2023. 56 p.
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Almeida HDND, Peixoto Gomes L, Pereira de Souza RM. E o Nordeste? E o Twitter? O Twitter nas majoritárias municipais nordestinas. In Cavassana F, Aggio C, Goulart Massuchin M, editors, Eleições municipais em rede: O contexto digital em 2020. Curitiba, PR: Carvalho Comunicação. 2023
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Peixoto Gomes L, Downe J, Roberts M. Reform of Electoral Law and Practice. Wales Centre for Public Policy - Cardiff University, 2022.
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Pember S, Tilley H, Price J, Gomes LP. Supporting the Welsh Lifelong Learning System. Wales Centre for Public Policy - Cardiff University, 2021. 71 p. doi: 10.54454/20211216
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Almeida HDND, Gomes LPV. Embates e silêncios: Lideranças Partidárias do Legislativo no Twitter. Aurora. 2021 Jun 6;14(40):68-90. doi: 10.23925/1982-6672.2021v14i40p68-90
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Gomes LPV. Bang for the buck: Brazil’s electoral and political financing rules from a gendered perspective. E-Legis - Revista Eletrônica do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Câmara dos Deputados. 2021 Apr 28;14(34):50-77. doi: 10.51206/e-legis.v14i34.627
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Gomes LP, Barasuol F. The annulment of ex-president Lula’s conviction is a turning point in Brazil’s 2022 elections. 2021.
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Peixoto Vale Gomes L. Eleitor médio. In Dicionário das Eleições. Jurua Editora. 2020
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Peixoto Vale Gomes L. Espectro ideológico: Dicionário das eleições. In Dicionário das Eleições. Jurua Editora. 2020
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Peixoto Vale Gomes L. What, how, and who: Women's substantive representation in Brazil, Sweden, and UK. 2019.
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Goulart T, Peixoto Gomes L. Gender differences in local executives: Public policy and intergovernmental transfers in a Brazilian state. FEMERIS: Revista Multidisciplinar de Estudios de Género. 2018 Aug 1;3(2):9-36. doi: 10.20318/femeris.2018.4318
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Gomes LP, Almeida H. Desde o século 19, as brasileiras lutam por direitos políticos: Brasil Debate. 2018.
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Peixoto Vale Gomes L, de Almeida do Nascimento H. Mais exóticos que jabuticabas? Os sistemas eleitorais brasileiros. In Coleção Tratado de Direito Eleitoral. Editoria Forum. 2018
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Peixoto Gomes L. Elegendo mulheres - Ideologia partidária, feminismo e inclusão de mulheres na política. Revista Eletrônica de Ciência Política. 2016 Jan 1;7(1):35-53. doi: 10.5380/recp.v7i1.45321
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Gomes LP, Almeida H, Paradis C, Miranda M. Primavera feminista: começa o levante contra Cunha: Brasil Debate. 2015.
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Peixoto Gomes L. The impact of political trajectories on voting: A study of female candidates for a state legislature in Brazil . Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science. 2015 Feb 12;28:1-22. doi: 10.22151/politikon.28.1
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Peixoto Vale Gomes L. A presença feminina nos espaços legislativos: Um estudo das eleições de 2010 para a Assembleia Legislativa de Minas Gerais. 2012.
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