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.

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
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.
Leah McCabe	Leah McCabe is a ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Politics and International Relations. Her research explores the framing of domestic abuse policy in post-devolution Scotland, with a particular interest in framing debates, contestations (including within feminist movements) and resistance.
Leanne Dawson	Dr Leanne Dawson is Senior Lecturer in both Film Studies and German Studies.
Lena Wånggren	Dr Lena Wånggren teaches courses on English and Scottish Literature, gender studies and feminist writing, in the English Literature department and at the Centre for Open Learning.
Lilah Grace Canevaro	My research centres on archaic Greek poetry, epic and didactic in particular. I am interested in the modes of reading which ancient poetry invites, and try in my research to track such readings from the invitation (through close reading of the poems themselves) to the response to it (the reception of the poems). In much of my research I make connections between Greek literature and other cultures and time periods, a particular interest being Victorian poetry and art. I draw on comparative and reception methodologies, and am starting to explore ways i
Lisa Raeder	Lisa Raeder is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self, and Society at the University of Edinburgh, with a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from Stockholm University. Her research intersects the disciplinary fields of critical theory, gender studies and medical humanities, and her PhD project investigates the role of hormonal contraceptives in the production of gender and sexuality, and conceptions of health and the self. Since 2020.
Literature and Modernity I: Modernist Aesthetics	Modernist Aesthetics is the semester 1 core course for the MSc Literature and Modernity and is restricted to students on that programme. The course explores key texts and topics in modernist literature of the first half of the twentieth century, alongside cultural, historical and intellectual contexts, and a range of critical and theoretical approaches. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate
Literature and Modernity II: Late Modernism and Beyond	This is the semester 2 core course for MSc Literature and Modernity and is only available for students on that programme. This course examines topics in contemporary literary and critical theory with specific attention paid to questions of the politics of literary texts, the production of political identity through texts, and the contested questions of cultural politics through which texts are read. Topics to be covered include post-structuralism, post-colonialism, post-modernism, sexual politics and cultural identity. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate

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