Susie brings over 20 years experience working on sexuality and gender. She is currently an Honorary Associate at IDS, teaching and supervising students, and freelance consultant, researcher, communicator, facilitator and trainer.
From 2010-2017, Susie Jolly led the Ford Foundation gender and sexuality grant making portfolio in China, totalling US$2 million/year, and supported programmes developing Chinese philanthropy, and on China’s global South relations. Before working at Ford, she founded and convened the Sexuality and Development Programme at IDS, a programme of research, communications and advocacy which contributed to bringing about a greater recognition of the importance of sexual rights to development.
She has completed numerous consultancies on sexuality education, SRHR, HIV/AIDS, gender, and social development, with UNESCO, UNDP, UNWomen, World Bank, DFID, Sida, Christian Aid and others, in China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Sweden and Norway. She is an experienced trainer and facilitator, having convened workshops, trainings and courses for audiences ranging from government officials to activists and academics. She has published widely on issues of sexuality and gender, producing academic publications, literature reviews, popular communications, and consultancy reports.
Selected publications
Refereed articles
Jolly, S. (forthcoming 2021) ‘Is development work still so straight? Heteronormativity in the international development industry ten years on,’ Development In Practice
Jolly, S. (2016), ‘Positive Approaches to Sexuality and New Normative Frames: Strands of Research and Action in China and the USA’, Sexuality Education 16.3
Jolly, S. (2011) ‘Why is Development Work so Straight? Heteronormativity in the International Development Industry’, Development In Practice 21.1
Jolly S. (2010) ‘Pleasure and Empowerment: Connections and Disconnections’, Development 53.2
Books
Jolly, S., Cornwall, A., and Hawkins, K. (2013) (eds ) Women, Sexuality, and the Political Power of Pleasure, Zed: London
Cornwall, A., Correa, S., and Jolly, S. (eds) (2007) Development with a Body: Perspectives on Sexuality, Rights and Development, Zed: London (includes chapter ‘Development’s encounter with sexuality: essentialism and beyond’, Correa, S., and Jolly, S.)
Jolly, S., with Cornwall, A. (eds) (2006) ‘Sexuality Matters’, IDS Bulletin 37.5, Brighton: IDS
Book chapters/working papers
Jolly, S. (2021) ‘Gender, Sexuality, and Environment’, in Albert Salamanca, A., and Yeophantong, P., (ed), Routledge Handbook of Global Development, London: Routledge
Jolly, S., Oosterhoff, P., Faith, B., Braeken, D., (2020), ‘A review of the evidence: Sexuality education for young people in digital spaces’, UNESCO
Cornwall, A. and Jolly, S. (2016), ‘Sexuality and the Development Industry: Reflections 6 Years on’, in Harcourt, W. (ed) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development, Palgrave Macmillan: New York
Jolly, S. (2014) ‘Gender and Sexuality Activism in Beijing: Negotiating International Influences and National and Local Processes’, in Pereira, C., (ed) Changing Narratives of Women’s Sexualities: contestations, compliance and women’s empowerment, Zed: London
Burris, M., Jolly, S., Kaufman, J., Lee, E. (2013) ‘Gender and Reproductive Health in China: Ford Foundation and UN Contributions’, in International Philanthropy in China, China Medical Board: Beijing
Jolly, S. (2010) ‘Poverty and Sexuality: What Are the Connections?’ Sida Working Paper
Jolly, S., in Izugbara, C., Undie, C., and Wanjiku Khamasi, J. (ed), (2010) ‘Sexuality and Poverty: What Have They Got to Do with Each Other?’, in Old Wineskins, New Wine: Readings in Sexuality in sub-Saharan Africa, Nova Science Publishers: New York
Cornwall, A. and Jolly, S. (2010) ‘Sexuality, Gender and Poverty’ in Chant, S. (ed), The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty, ELGAR: Oxford
Jolly, S. (2010) ‘Why the development Industry should get over its obsession with bad sex and start to think about pleasure’, in Bergeron, S., and Lind. A. (ed.), Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance: Resisting Global Power, Routledge: New York
Communications pieces/policy briefings
Jolly, S., (2021) ‘Heteronormativity in the International Development Sector and Why We Need to Get Over It’
Jolly, S., (2020), ‘Covid 19 and the impact on gender and sexuality’
Jolly, S., and Shephard, K., (eds) (2020), Switched On: An exhibition on digital sexuality education providers, UNESCO
Jolly, S. (2016) ‘Why gender and sexuality are central to China’s relationships with the global south’, Ford Foundation blog, [received over 250,000 hits]
Jolly, S. (2015) ‘Chinese NGOs name Ford among top donor partners’, Ford Foundation blog
Jolly, S. (2015) ‘A More Inclusive Approach to Grant Making’, Ford Foundation blog
Jolly, S. (2013) ‘Sexuality and the Economy in China’, IDS Policy Briefing, Brighton: IDS
