Dr. Claudine Hingstone

Dr Claudine Anita Hingston is an academic, researcher, gender expert and an advocate for women’s empowerment and rights.

She has over twenty years working experience in various institutions in Sierra Leone, United Kingdom and South Africa. Dr Hingston holds a B.A degree, a Diploma in Mass Communication, a Diploma in Cultural Studies, a Master in Gender Studies, and a PhD in Gender Studies.

Her areas of interest and expertise are gender, women’s empowerment, leadership, feminism, and Afrocentrism and she has published extensively in these fields. She has been thrice recognised for academic research excellence. In addition, she has received four awards in recognition of her humanitarian and girls empowerment work and efforts to create meaningful social change in both South Africa and her home country, Sierra Leone.