Victoria Tait

Our Capstone Preview features Emerging Scholar Victoria Tait, a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at Carleton University, who presented her paper at the last inter-university Seminar on Armed Forces and Society-Canada.

Victoria Tait is currently a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at Carleton University in Ottawa, ON. Her research focuses broadly on feminist security studies, and her dissertation examines how Women, Peace and Security policy has been framed and implemented within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). She enjoys working directly with Canadian soldiers to identify challenges in the military’s gender culture(s) while creating space for female-identifying soldiers to shape the academic and political narrative of their experience. Additional areas of research interest include gendered analysis of Canadian policy on veterans, feminist research methods and women in terrorist and insurgency organizations. Victoria’s work on gender and security has appeared in publications by the Canadian Defence Academy, Springer Publishing, Sage Research Methods Cases, and the Royal Canadian Military Institute.

Tone Danielsen

Tone Danielsen speaks about her work on embedding with the Norwegian Naval Special Operations Forces.

Tone Danielsen is a principal researcher at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment with focus on special operations. Her recent book, Making Warriors in a Global Era describes and analyzes a unit of the Norwegian Special Forces.

Meagan Shoemaker

Meagan Shoemaker discusses her research on how women’s deployment decisions and motivations are gendered.

Meaghan Shoemaker is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Studies at Queens University. Her research interests include NATO, human security, veterans, gender.