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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Anne Griffiths |
Her current research focus is on access to and control over land in southern Africa and how this plays out in the global domain, as well as on reducing poverty through potting as a means to security, enhancing women’s livelihoods in Botswana. It is enhanced by co-teaching the module on the Anthropology and Sociology of Law and Development and the fieldwork skills module on the newly established European Doctorate in Law and Development (EDOLAD, 2015) which represents a new PhD programme that involves a consortium of universities including Edinburgh (Scotland), Tilburg (Netherlands), Oslo (Nor |
Anouk Lang |
Biography |
Anthropological Theory |
This course aims to give a broad outline of how anthropologists use theory in their work, and how we can apply theory for ourselves to gain a better understanding of society and culture. The disciplinary basis on which anthropology was founded ¿ the study of primitive peoples ¿ began to disappear once we realized that societies did not simply evolve from simpler to more complex states, and ¿modernity¿ was not an endpoint for all peoples. So what is anthropology now? The study of society? Of culture? Of human difference? What are we actually spending our degrees studying? |
Anthropology of Health and Healing |
This course provides an advanced introduction to the anthropology of health, illness and healing. Students will be introduced to key theories and current debates at the interface of anthropology and medicine through a focus on cross-cultural approaches to illness, pain, healing, the body and care. We will explore how different ways of experiencing and knowing the body, including varied concepts of gender, sexuality, and the life course, can radically alter how people think about and engage with issues of health and healing. Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: Year 3 Undergraduate |
Anthropology of Race and Racism |
Since Social Anthropology's institutionalisation at the University of Edinburgh in 1946, 'race' has been an important theme for the subject area. This course draws our attention back to the centrality of race for anthropology by examining the myriad relationships between race and racism. Early anthropologists sought to understand the relationships between race and other perennial anthropological topics such as economics, kinship, politics, and religion. |
Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction |
Sex and reproduction are a necessity, a desire, a human compulsion. They are simultaneously private and public, as intimate acts and matters of open social concern. Sex sells, but it can be posed as indicative of larger social concerns. Political sex scandals, teenage pregnancy, designer vaginas, emergency contraceptives, and genetically engineered babies, have all provoked alarm and titillation at the failings, fears, and excitement of modernity. Human reproduction is crucial to social reproduction, as the birth of babies also produces parents, families, nations, and futures. |
April Bailey |
I'm Lecturer of Psychology and lead the BIAS Lab research group. |
Autumn Roesch-Marsh |
I am a qualified social worker with a passion for social work education and working with children and their families. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and teach across postgraduate and undergraduate courses. I have a keen interest in practice and research informed teaching that is experiential and I am interested in developing scholarship in the area of learning and teaching. My teaching interests include child and family social work, community social work, creative practice and social work skills and values. |
Ayaz Qureshi |
Dr Ayaz Qureshi is a Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Science. He has carried out ethnographic fieldwork on HIV/AIDS control in Pakistan. He received his PhD in social anthropology from SOAS. |
Benedetta Catanzariti |
Benedetta Catanzariti (she/her) is a Policy Fellow under the AHRC Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme at the University of Edinburgh. Her work sits at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies and feminist studies and investigates the interplay of power, vision, and knowledge in machine learning. Her PhD, concluded in 2023, investigated the social and cultural dimensions that inform the development of affective computing technologies, that is, machine learning models designed to track and recognize affective expressions based on changes in facial and bodily behaviours. |