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GENDER.ED - EUSA 2025 Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards: Third Prize Winner
… to feminist scholarship and activism within the University of Edinburgh community. We asked Aagoon Chakraborty, third prize winner, to reflect on her feminist journey. I remember hesitating before submitting my nomination for the Feminist …
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Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards 2022 – Shy Zvouloun, 3rd Prize
… and the Director of the Edinburgh International Justice Initiative. On top of these achievements, Shy also won first prize in the Women in Law Society and Black Chambers legal writing competition, a true testament to her ability and …
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GENDER.ED – Announcing the GENDER.ED - EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards
… (Associated Director of GENDER.ED). The 2023/2024 winners of the Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards are: 1st Prize: Ash Scholz (MA History and Politics, 4th Year) Panel comments: The panel of judges commended Ash on their … academic events, conferences, workshops, awareness-raising sessions, campaigns, and LGBTQ+ history month events. 2nd Prize: Aditi Jain (BSc (Hons) Pharmacology, Graduate) Panel comments: The panel of judges recognised Aditi’s strong … and the panel agreed that her work deserves to be showcased and celebrated more widely across the University. 3rd Prize: Kate Wilson (MA Linguistics and English Language, 4th year) and Kirsten Hay (MA French and Italian, 3rd year) …
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GENDER.ED - EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards: 2nd Prize
2023 marked the second year of the GENDER.ED - EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards. The awards seek to recognise extraordinary commitments to feminist scholarship and change on campus. We saw a range of nominations from students and staff which were considered by a panel of judges from GENDER.ED and EUSA. The judges were Meryl Kenny (GENDER.ED steering committee member and convenor of GENDER.ED’s flagship course, Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World). Radhika Govinda …
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GENDER.ED - EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards: 1st Prize
2023 marked the second year of the GENDER.ED - EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards. The awards seek to recognise extraordinary commitments to feminist scholarship and change on campus. This past year saw a range of nominations from students and staff which were considered by a panel of judges from GENDER.ED and EUSA. The judges consisted of Meryl Kenny (GENDER.ED steering committee member and convenor of GENDER.ED’s flagship course, Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World). …
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Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards 2022 – Jaime Llorente Prada, 2nd Prize
This year, GENDER.ED and the Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) came together for the launch of the Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazers Awards and Blog Series . The Awards seek to recognise and celebrate the contribution of undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh who are furthering the cause of feminism through important and impactful work. This year, the judges were GENDER.ED Steering Group member and ‘Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World’ course …
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Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards 2022 – Katie Horsburgh, 1st Prize
This year, GENDER.ED and the Edinburgh University Students Association ( EUSA ) came together for the launch of the Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazers Awards and Blog Series . The Awards seek to recognise and celebrate the contribution of undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh who are furthering the cause of feminism through important and impactful work. The judges were GENDER.ED Steering Group member and ‘Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World’ course convenor, Dr …
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GENDER.ED - EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards: 3rd Prize
2023 marked the second year of the GENDER.ED - EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards. The awards seek to recognise extraordinary commitments to feminist scholarship and change on campus. We saw a range of nominations from students and staff which were considered by a panel of judges from GENDER.ED and EUSA. In 2023, the judges were Meryl Kenny (GENDER.ED steering committee member and convenor of GENDER.ED’s flagship course, Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World), Radhika …
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GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazers – Call for Nominations
… consisting of GENDER.ED and EUSA members after a round of shortlisting. Students selected as winners will receive a prize and be featured in a GENDER.ED blogpost. Our winners last year impressed us with their commitments to activism and … work around gender justice and we featured them on our blog so you could get to know them better: Katie Horsburgh (first prize) Jaime Llorente Prada (second prize) Shy Zvouloun (third prize) Honorary mention: Pia Wahi-Singh If you are an undergraduate student conducting …
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Reflecting on 2022 and Looking Ahead
… (280 students) and this year Dr. Meryl Kenny co-convened it with Dr. Hemangini Gupta. We award the Yuan Changying Prize to the best student essay in this class and prize-winners are featured on our blog with consent. This year, marking our fifth anniversary, we are instituting the Queer Futures Prize which will be awarded to an essay submitted to the Introduction to Queer Studies course that GENDER.ED also …
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: GENDER.ED in 2023
… academic and activist settings. Our GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards (UGFTA’s), Yuan Changying Prize and, the newly launched, Queer Futures Prize acknowledge the important work that students do, and we were incredibly impressed with all those who were nominated in 2023. The winners of the UGFTA’s and the Yuan Changying Prize were announced at our Annual Research Showcase in May. Look out for posts featuring the winners of prizes and their …
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A Gender Observation of the Portrayal of Masculinities in ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’ by Lil Nas X – Heidi Hafner
… This blog series showcases the student winners of the Yuan Changying Prize, sponsored by GENDER.ED and SPS’s Gender Politics Research Group. The prize recognises outstanding ‘gender observations’ written by students (and nominated by tutors) in the pre-Honours … students to link material from the course to their own day-to-day experiences and observations of ‘doing gender’. The prize is named after Yuan Changying in consultation with students, in recognition of the first female Chinese graduate in …