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Sally Brown

Sally Brown is currently Programme Director for the MA Health in Social Science, having joined Edinburgh University in 2020. She is a medical sociologist and health services researcher with an […]

Counselling Across Borders

The changes, both advances and challenges, in the current global circumstances have an impact on mental health as well as on what we understand health or illness to be. This […]

Introduction to Disability Studies (SHSS10012)

This course has been developed in association with EUSA's Disabled Students' Officer and in consultation with UG students from across the University to provide an opportunity for students to study […]

Queering Health and Social Sciences: LGBTQIA+ Perspectives

This course will introduce students to key theoretical, philosophical, and historical perspectives, issues and debates on queerness. At the heart of this programme is the view that emphasises a multiplicity […]

Gender, Sexualities and Health

This is an introductory course addressing gender and sexuality in healthcare contexts. The course will provide a basis for understanding health from interdisciplinary social science perspectives, drawing in the ways […]

Introduction to Disability Studies (Pre-Honours) (SHSS08006)

Maisie Jenkins

BiographyMaisie is a PhD candidate in the School of Health in Social Sciences. She is currently undertaking a part-time, distance PhD focussed on self-harm in men. Alongside this, she works […]

J Fergus Evans

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Mariya Levitanus

Mariya (she/her) is a scholar, queer activist, and psychotherapist trained within the dialogue between the person-centred approach and psychodynamic perspectives. She received her Doctorate in Psychotherapy from the University of […]

Health, bodies and embodiment

This course supports students to understand and engage critically with social scientific approaches to human bodies and embodiment, and to appreciate the relevance of these to studying health. It is […]

Jamie B. Smith

Emotional labour (pro)Feminism Feminist epistemologies Continuous theories of becoming Affect theory Queer theory Posthumanism Emotions in care giving

Karri Gillespie-Smith

I am a Developmental Psychologist interested in linking core social and cognitive constructs to real world applications. These core constructs include: social attention, face perception, and self-concept. My overarching research theme […]

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