GENDER.ED Directory
Welcome to the GENDER.ED Directory. It brings together gender and sexualities studies researchers from across the University of Edinburgh, and gender and sexualities studies-related courses at undergraduate ordinary, honours, and postgraduate levels. With over 330 entries, the GENDER.ED Directory provides a comprehensive overview of the research and teaching being conducted at the University of Edinburgh. The Directory is designed to be used by prospective and current students and researchers, potential collaborators, and the wider community interested in gender and sexualities studies.
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Researchers found in the Directory range from our PhD and early career researchers to Professors. Within these profiles, you will find details of research interests, ongoing research projects, noteworthy gender and sexualities-related publications, and teaching activity. We hope these entries will enable researchers to connect with one another (across and beyond the institution), encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration.
Course entries on the Directory provide insight into the content taught in each course, the course’s credit level, and the year taken. Course entries provide a valuable resource to students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, assisting in navigating gender and sexualities studies pathways through their University programmes.
If you would like to be added to the Directory, please contact us at gender.ed@ed.ac.uk.
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Health inequities and the social determinants of health (Distance learning) |
Inequalities or disparities in the health of different population groups are seen both within and between countries. The term 'health inequities' denotes differences in the health status of groups occupying unequal positions in society; such inequities can be seen across multiple axes including gender, ethnicity/race, area and socioeconomic position. This course aims to demonstrate the extent of inequalities in health, to explore the underlying determinants of health and health inequalities, and to consider policy responses to health inequities. |
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 primarily designed for students undertaking the MA Health, Science and Society but takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing widely from sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, and is open to students in Years 3 and 4 across the University. The course will be of particular interest to students undertaking degrees in Social and Political Sciences. |
Helen Parker |
Dr Helen Parker is a Lecturer in Japanese at the Asian Studies department of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. |
History of Art 1A Art and Belief in Europe, 500 to 1700 |
Explore the relationship of art, power and belief through this introduction to art and from late antiquity to the Renaissance. History of Art 1A provides an introduction to Art History at university level. The lectures in History of Art 1 cover almost 1400 years of the history of art, from c.500 to c.1700, from the Early Medieval period to the Baroque. The course (though it follows a roughly chronological sequence) is not a chronological survey and does not pretend to provide comprehensive coverage of this vast and complex subject. |
History of the United States |
This course offers an introduction to the history of the United States, spanning from the revolutionary era of the eighteenth century through to the twenty-first century. |
Hugo Gorringe |
Dr Hugo Gorringe is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and the Co-Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the School of Social and Political Science. His research has focused on social and political movements both in South India and in Scotland.
His principal research interests include:
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Human Rights and Conflict Resolution |
This course will examine the role of human rights in intra-state conflict and in peace processes. In particular it will examine how peace processes and agreements deal with power-sharing arrangements, transitional justice mechanisms, gender equality, and return of refugees. The course will examine the moral, political and practical dilemmas in dealing with these issues, and consider the extent to which human rights law provides useful guidance and requirements, or hinders conflict resolution efforts. |
Identity and Self in Contemporary German Literature |
This option introduces students to literary renegotiations of questions of identity and self in contemporary German-language novels. Students will closely study two selected novels over four weeks respectively. Each novel will be accompanied by critical reading which will help students engage with and also reflect more widely on notions of gender, sexuality, race, class, the body, belonging, and postmigration that are at the core of the selected novels in an informed and critical way. Credit level: 10 Year taken: Year 4 Undergraduate SCQF credits: 20 |
Imperial Feminisms: The Anti-Colonial Examination of Gender and white Womanhood from the 19th Century to Present |
Imperial Feminisms: The Anti-Colonial Examination of Gender and White Womanhood from the 19th Century to the Present is an interdisciplinary course examining the historical development of gender theory in the United States and the United Kingdom through the global expansion of feminist movements within imperial and colonial contexts. The course begins with an analysis of nineteenth-century suffrage debates, focusing on how arguments about womanhood, race, and civilization intersected with projects of segregation, racial hierarchy, and colonial governance. |
Indigenous Futures: Knowledge, Ecology and Politics |
The course will examine the way these issues are shaped in conversation with the global flow of people, capital, and ideas. Where possible, the course will also invite (via video feed) academic experts, advocates for indigenous peoples' rights, and indigenous voices from a range of positions, to answer student's queries about pertinent political and social issues. These engagements will help inform, question, challenge, educate, and engage students in their own course work. Student Learning Experience Information |