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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 […]

16 September 2021

Upcoming Event – Gender Sensitive Research: Lessons from GCRF and Beyond

GENDER.ED invites you to an online event showcasing gender sensitive research and discussing the challenges and gains involved: ‘Gender Sensitive Research: Lessons from GCRF and Beyond‘, on Friday the 1st […]

10 September 2021

Aerin Lai – ECR Spotlight

What do men talk about when men talk about men?

08 September 2021

Sarah Henning – ECR Spotlight

Gender and the history of social work education at the University of EdinburghMy doctoral research examines the careers of three women who ran the social work department at the University […]

06 September 2021

André Prado Fernandes – ECR Spotlight

 The World Making Powers of Law and Performance: Queer Politics Beyond Neoliberal LegalismHow may queer performances help us think about the limits of, and reconceptualise the mainstream rhetoric of, LGBT […]

03 September 2021

Marie Larsson – ECR Spotlight

Researching young people’s contraceptive work in SwedenHistorically, there seems to have always been a desire and need to contracept: to prevent or be able to plan pregnancies and/or prevent sexually […]

01 September 2021

Jackie Simard – ECR Spotlight

Women, gender and divorce: an historical focusIn two years, it will be the 100th anniversary of the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1923. Within the Divorce Courts, this Act placed both […]

27 August 2021

Dr Charlotte Bosseaux: How can we best respond to the ethical demands of Gender-Based Violence translation?

Dr Charlotte Bosseaux, of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to consider the ways in which the voices […]

25 August 2021

Bombs, Brexit Boys and Bairns: A Feminist Critique of Nuclear (In)security in the Integrated Review

Claire Duncanson and Catherine Eschle.

23 August 2021

Amy Andrada – ECR Spotlight

In Defense of ‘Assholes’ (Feminism)People talking, glasses ring, and chairs pushed aboutin a small, dark, and dimly lit room.I can hear the host, a famous comedian, introduce mewhile she asks […]

02 August 2021

ECR Spotlight – Call for Content

GENDER.ED is pleased to announce the introduction of the ‘ECR Spotlight’, a new series showcasing the work of University of Edinburgh PhD and Postdoctoral researchers. The ECR Spotlight will comprise […]

02 August 2021

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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