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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| Name | Details |
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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 |
Katucha Bento |
Dr Katucha Bento is Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies in the Dept of Sociology and the Associate Director of RACE.ED Network. Her work is grounded in Black Feminisms (Latinx, Caribbean, African, US, and UK) situating Critical Race Studies and Decoloniality as she navigates topics around affect economy, diaspora, womanhood, Blackness and community building. |
Kaveri Qureshi |
Dr Kaveri Qureshi is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED, and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Science. She has an interdisciplinary background between critical public health, anthropology and sociology. She works on intersectional inequalities in health and work; family and intimate life; and relationships between health and family. In wider collaborative work, she leads lines of inquiry around intersectional inequalities and coloniality. |
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. |
Keywords in South Asian Public Culture |
This course aims to provide students with a solid understanding of important contemporary debates in the study of South Asian public culture. Introducing key themes through critical and current ethnographic work, this course focuses on the tangible public forms that global cultural flows, political economies and social formations take. This emphasis on contemporary public culture allows a concrete consideration of abstract and changing social and cultural forces that define the region. |
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. |