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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Kelly Blacklock |
Kelly (she/her) is a senior lecturer in Small Animal Surgery at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, where she is involved in the clinical service, teaching, and research into the genetic basic and functional aspects of canine cancers. She is a Research Fellow at the Patton Lab in the Institute of Genetics and Cancer, where she studies metastasis of canine oral melanoma. Kelly is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a mentor of other staff on the Edinburgh Teaching Award. |
Key Concepts in Global Social Change |
This course introduces students to key sociological concepts, their analytic utility, and their relevance for understanding and explaining major issues in global social change. It aims to define and interrogate fundamental concepts in sociology, while also illustrating these through timely and topical social issues of global scope in the news. While it addresses globalization, it puts this in historical perspective, and relates it to enduring ideas in sociological analysis. |
Kinship: Structure and Process (Postgraduate) |
This course examines some of the ways in which people in different societies conceptualise and live out relatedness. It shows how notions about relatedness are linked to notions about gender, theories of procreation (which are themselves changing under the impact of New Reproductive Technologies), and ideas about bodily substance, as well as having emotional, economic, and political salience. Kinship has long been regarded as the core of the anthropological discipline, although the extent to which this is still the case is questionable. |
Kinship: Structure and Process (Undergraduate) |
This course examines some of the ways in which people in different societies conceptualise and live out kinship and relatedness. It shows how notions of relatedness are linked to ideas about gender, theories of procreation (which are themselves changing under the impact of assisted reproductive technologies), and understandings of bodily substance, as well as having profound emotional, economic, political and religious salience. |
Kirsty Day |
After studying for an undergraduate degree in English and History at the University of Sheffield (2007–2010) and an MA in Medieval and Renaissance Culture at the University of Southampton (2010–2011), I completed a PhD at the University of Leeds (2011–2015; awarded 2016). I was appointed Teaching Fellow in Medieval History at Leeds (2015–2016) before moving to the University of Edinburgh to take up another teaching fellowship (2016–2019). Continuing my journey north, I moved to Aalborg University in Denmark to take up a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2019–2021). |
Laila Rajani |
Laila Rajani is a first-year PhD student at University of Edinburgh. Her proposed research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, examines the intersection between development interventions, social inequalities and mental distress in Pakistan. Specifically, she aims to examine ways in which well-meaning development interventions surrounding women empowerment and girl education have unintended consequences on women's health and well-being. |
Latin American Anthropology (Postgraduate) |
The objective of the course is to provide postgraduate students with an advanced understanding of major contemporary debates and key works in the social anthropology of Latin America. The course will have a particular focus on the different ways in which life in the region has been "mediated" through literature, food, film, music, and other kinds of cultural productions. It will also offer a geographically focused examination of race, violence, religion, urbanization, and sexuality. |
Latin American Anthropology (Undergraduate) |
A survey of major contemporary debates and key works in the social anthropology of Latin America. The course will have a particular focus on the different ways in which life in the region has been 'mediated' through literature, food, film, music, and other kinds of cultural productions. It will also offer a geographically focused examination of race, violence, religion, urbanization, and sexuality- topics introduced in the first and second years of the anthropology course. Credit Level: 10 Year taken: Year 3 Undergraduate Not running in 2026/27 |
Laura Wise |
Laura Wise (she/her) is a Research Fellow and Programme Coordinator with the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep). Laura’s research explores the margins of peace processes and conflict-affected societies and their intersections with the politics of inclusion. She is particularly interested in local peace processes, ethnopolitics, and women, peace and security. As part of the PeaceRep consortium, Laura is leading research projects investigating gender perspectives in peace agreements and women's participation in complex peace processes. |
Laurie Denyer Willis |
Dr Laurie Denyer Willis is a Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Science. |