Blog posts by Fiona Mackay

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CERT: Contraception Education Reform Team

Calling student researchers and campaigners: contraceptive health and rights

CERT is a policy group campaigning for contraceptive empowerment in Scotland. Formed in 2018 by four students at the University of Edinburgh, CERT works to produce research-based change and promote a […]
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‘Work When You Can’: Reflections on Gender, Covid-19, and Academia

By Meryl KennyThe following blog is an abridged version of a roundtable contribution to the PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group’s recent workshop on ‘The Gendered Impacts of the Covid-19 […]
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Congratulations! Winning reflections on Cynthia Enloe talk

Earlier this year, the legendary feminist and IR theorist Professor Cynthia Enloe made a virtual visit to University of Edinburgh as Politics and IR’s Distinguished Scholar 2021.  PIR and GENDER.ED […]
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You Feel it Too? Reflections on Cynthia Enloe’s #MeToo talk

by Emily Mann You feel it too?What, so the trepidation I feel isn’t personal? You feel it too?individual problem-privatisationkeep it to yourself, stay silentthey don’t want you to sharethe isolations intentionalwork […]
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Biomedical versus social science understandings of gender

Aoife McKenna and Rosalind Cavaghan
Gender Sensitive ODA Research: Tools and Tips. May 2021, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. Presenters: Dr Rosalind Cavaghan (genderED), Dr Aoife McKenna. Chair: Prof Martin Pickersgill

Gender Sensitive ODA Research: Tips and Tools

At the end of May, GENDER.ED ran an online information session ‘Gender Sensitive ODA Research: Tips and Tools’ for researchers at the Usher institute, the applied and translational arm of […]
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Understanding Gender course – new award for co-production research

The School of Social and Political Science and GENDER.ED have been awarded a Regular Grant in the University of Edinburgh’s Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) to research ways to refresh and […]
Doing gender sensitive research - tools and tips

Gender Sensitive Research: Designing Projects That Leave No-one Behind

GENDER.ED has recently held a joint online training with EQUAL-Futures at the University of Bristol.  The event was a part of GENDER.ED’s on-going project Integrating Gender into GCRF Bids and […]
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Gender, Race and the 2021 Scottish Parliament Election- Monday 26th April

We have a great line up of panellists for a discussion on gender, race and the 2021 Scottish Parliament elections.
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An Introduction to SE7EN Magazine: a new student-run women’s publication

Ellie RushforthSe7en Magazine is a new student-run women’s publication, created to represent women across the University of Edinburgh and beyond. Over 60% of the student population of Edinburgh University identify […]
Portrait photograph of Dr Mitchison, date and photographer unknown (Coll-1066)

Women’s History in the Department of Economic and Social History. Rosalind Mitchison (1919-2002) and Leah Leneman (1944-1999).

Stana NenadicIn 1986 I was appointed to a temporary lectureship in Social History in the Department of Economic and Social History in the old Social Sciences Faculty. My PhD from […]
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‘Doing gender’ in a private, single-sex primary school in Zimbabwe: personal observations

Tanatsei Gambura*1 out of 2 winners of the Yuan Changying Prize, sponsored by GENDER.ED

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