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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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). |
Knowledge, Ignorance and Power |
This course will introduce and examine a range of topics at the intersection of epistemology and political/social/feminist philosophy, examining our actual epistemic practices in light of the relations of power and subordination that exist between differently placed groups in society, and looking at different proposals for how this should shape our theorizing about knowledge and ignorance. |
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 |
Latin American Film: History, Identity and Social Justice (Ordinary) |
This course will offer an introduction to a range of Latin American films from different periods and styles, focusing on how filmmakers have recorded and contested societal and political upheaval. Students will examine a selection of Latin American films (originally in Spanish and in some cases Portuguese and Indigenous languages) in order to explore issues relating to history, identity and social justice. |
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. |
Leah Eades |
Leah Eades is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. Her PhD project is entitled "After the Eighth: Abortion and the Politics of Reproduction in Post-Repeal Ireland". She teaches on Social Anthropology 1A and 1B, Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction, and Anthropology of Health and Healing. |