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Josephine Ahikire is one of the notable women in Uganda, she is an author and a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Social Science, Department of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University. she is also a senior research fellow in the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala

Ahikire is a visiting scholar at the University of Oldenburg in Germany and she is widely published on gendered constructions of public politics, labour and popular culture.

Career
Josephine Ahikire is the former Dean, School of Women and Gender Studies and is currently the deputy principal of College of Humanities and Social sciences, Makerere University.

Over 20 years of teaching Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University, in the field of women’s empowerment, gender, politics and society, livelihood and culture.

In research carried out in Amuru and Kabale districts, Dr. Josephine Ahikire aimed Interrogating customary land tenure & women’s land rights in context of reform & large scale investment.

She has an extensive experience in qualitative and quantitative research and has published widely in the fields of gender and politics, labour and cultural studies.

Ahikire is an associate member of the African Gender Institute (AGI) and the Council for Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA)

write about the articles she has authored

Achievements
Josephine is leading ESID’s research project in Uganda on Gender and the Political Settlement. She has led a variety of research projects on gender and land, elections, women and parliamentary performance, gender and the politics of access and many other areas connected with livelihoods and social justice.

Ahikire was made Dean of the School of Women and Gender Studieson the 3rd February, 2015, in the Gender Conference Hall.

She was also appointed Deputy Principal of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS), and assumed office on Tuesday, 15th August, 2017.

Her recent publications include;


 * Localised or Localising Democracy
 * Gender and the Politics of Decentralisation in Contemporary Uganda
 * and two co-edited books: Controlling Consent and Uganda’s 2016 elections with J. Oloka-Onyango, 2016
 * Gender Poverty and Social Transformation
 * Reflections on Fractures and Continuities in Contemporary Uganda with Bantebya et al., 2014.