Dovaine Buschmann

Dovaine Buschmann is a project assistant (prae-doc) of the research platform's PhD Program "Cultural Mobility Studies" (FWF) since November 1st, 2019. 

PhD Thesis:

Policy Mobilities and Immobilities as a Feminist Matter. The Case of Financial Literacy Education 

Research Interests

• International Political Economy
• Critical Policy Analysis
• Feminist Theories
• Financialization Studies 

Curriculum vitae

Dovaine Buschmann holds BA and MA degrees in Political Science from the University of Vienna. She wrote her Master’s thesis on the topic "Financial Literacy as a Remedy to Gender Inequality? Framing Gender Equality in the OECD Financial Literacy Education Policy". During her studies she completed a three-month research stay at the University of Bremen and worked as a scientific project assistant in the Horizon2020 research project "Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe" (MiCREATE).

Project Outline

'Policy mobility' is an emergent interdisciplinary subfield of mobility studies as well as critical policy analysis. Differently from other perspectives, the mobilities approach suggests policy development to be a messy, partly coincidental processes, in which policies are not simply transiting intact between jurisdictions, but change and evolve through their own geographical, institutional and conceptual movement (Peck & Theodore 2010). This research project aims to reflect on the policy mobility of Financial Literacy Education (FLE) policy from a gender-sensitive perspective. While this policy was originally developed as a measure of financial regulation, policy-makers have recognised it to be an important instrument addressing gender inequality. My project explores how and why the FLE policy gained focus on the issue of gender inequality, and what does this conceptual policy mobility reveal about asymmetric gender relations.