Ana Carolina Ogando

Gender, qualitative methods, participatory research methods, action research, project management, knowledge translation and learning

Dr Ana Carolina Ogando is the Research Coordinator at WIEGO and a Research Associate for the Urban Policies Programme. As a gender and research methods expert, she guides research projects from conception to dissemination, ensuring they align with WIEGO’s approach to knowledge co-production. For nearly 15 years, she has provided support to programmes on qualitative and participatory methodologies, research design, gender, participatory governance and waste and urban related issues.

Ana Carolina has led qualitative data collection for WIEGO studies, including the 10-city Informal Economy Monitoring Study, the 12-city COVID-19 Crisis Study, and the current study on the impacts of climate change. Her collaborative work in Brazil includes contributions to the Gender, Intersectionality and Worker’s Health Project, Climate Change Impact Mapping, the Gender and Waste project, the Cuidar project, and the Child Care Initiative. Her recent publications address critical issues such as the cost-of-living crisis, climate impacts on workers in the urban informal economy, and gender and intersectionality.

Before joining WIEGO, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where she also taught. She was also an affiliated researcher at the Women’s Studies Research Center (NEPEM-UFMG).

Ana Carolina holds a Ph.D in political science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2012), specializing in gender, feminist theory and social movements. Her masters’ research explored critical theory debates on recognition and redistribution within the context of women’s and feminist movements in Brazil.

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