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.
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| Name | Details |
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Jazz Studies: Critical Perspectives on Music and Culture |
While not a history class per se, this course will take a roughly chronological approach to examining the evolution of jazz as musical and cultural practice from c. 1920 - 2000. In addition to contextual musical content, relevant theoretical frameworks will include (but are not limited to) aspects of race theory, gender theory, disability, anecdotal theory, and approaches drawn from ethnomusicology. |
Jeevan Sharma |
Jeevan R Sharma is Senior Lecturer in South Asia and International Development at the University of Edinburgh. |
Jiazhi Fengjiang |
Dr Jiazhi Fengjiang (she/her) is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Sciences. |
Jingyu Mao |
Dr Jingyu Mao is a Tutor and Guest Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Science. |
John Devaney |
Professor John Devaney (he/him) is the Centenary Chair of Social Work and Head of the School of Social and Political Science. |
Julie Cupples |
Julie Cupples (she/her/Ella) is a Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies who works in Latin America and Aotearoa New Zealand and with media organizations and media texts. She is the author or editor of eight books the most recent of which is Development and Decolonization in Latin America (Routledge, 2022). |
Kant and International Relations |
This course explores key problems in contemporary international relations through the political thought of Immanuel Kant and his interpreters. Students will be introduced to key texts, contexts, and interpretations of Kant's political thought and their relationship to issues like climate change, race, gender, colonialism, cosmopolitanism, war, and international law. Year taken: Year 3 Undergraduate SCQF Credits: 20 |
Karen Gregory |
Dr Karen Gregory (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science. She is a digital sociologist, ethnographer, and Programme Co-Director of the MSc in Digital Sociology. She currently co-leads the Digital Social Science Research Cluster at the Center for Data, Culture and Society at the University of Edinburgh. |
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 is interested in how core socio-cognitive strengths and weaknesses impact wider areas of functioning (e.g. clinical symptomology, forensic applications, risk awareness, social media use and gaming) in Autism and other groups developing atypically. |
Kath Weston |
Professor Kath Weston is a British Academy Global Professor at the School of Social and Political Science and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on bodies and visceral engagement in ways that integrate the study of kinship, political ecology, the anthropology of finance, science and technology studies, historical anthropology, and identity politics. Her British Academy award project explores how early modern European scientific inquiries into blood circulation, generation, and gestation remain deeply embedded in contemporary understandings of p |