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07 April 2023

72 Hours in Canberra: The Feminist Imperative and the Dilemmas of the Contemporary Academic’s Impactful Labour

In our Friday long read, Professor Sarah Childs explains her ground-breaking work on Gender-Sensitive Parliament audits and invites us into the backstage life of a feminist academic out to both study and change the world.

22 August 2022

Annual Research Showcase Highlights: Kate Holliday

In this Annual Research Showcase Highlight, doctoral candidate Kate Holliday writes about her research on framing and political polarisation in contentious policy debates, focussing primarily on debates over proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act.

What can we learn from transitional justice and imaginaries when seeking justice for persistent sexual and gender-based violence in consolidated democracies?

19 August 2022

Annual Research Showcase Highlights: Natasha Fricker

In recent years there have been many highly publicised demonstrations against pervasive sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) within long-standing western liberal democracies like the United Kingdom and the United States.

Words written on a whiteboard: Decolonising Feminist Knowledge

25 February 2022

Upcoming Event: Disrupting Coloniality in the Classroom? Decolonisation, Feminism and Critical Pedagogies

As part of CRITIQUE | GENDER.ED | RACE.ED Roundtables on Decolonising the AcademyDisrupting Coloniality in the Classroom? Decolonisation, Feminism and Critical PedagogiesTuesday, 8th March 16:00-17:30

17 September 2021

‘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 […]

05 April 2021

50 Years of Feminist Classrooms

Marta Kowalewska

15 March 2021

Different Pathways into Feminism

Marta Kowalewska with inputs from Radhika GovindaHow did the women who pioneered women’s, gender and feminist studies at the University of Edinburgh become involved with feminism? In this blog, we […]

Timeline of the Women's, Gender and Feminist Studies at the University of Edinburgh. 1976 The Beginning. First adult education women's studies course runs in the Extra Mural Department. 1978. Introduction of Gender Studies. Patricia Jeffery comes into Sociology with the explicit brief of introducing gender studies teaching to the mainstream academic curriculum. 1979,. Gender and Society. The course 'Gender and Society' begins, put together and taught by Patricia Jeffery and Rosemary Johnson.

08 March 2021

Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies at Edinburgh: A Window On Journeys Undertaken

Radhika GovindaThis blog[1] post kicks off our ‘Voices from the Early Days’ blog series, where we explore different topics related to the history – and future –  of Women’s, Gender […]

Portrait photograph of Dr Mitchison, date and photographer unknown (Coll-1066)