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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Politics and Theories of International Development |
Development has been primarily concerned with the economic transformation of countries considered to be less advanced than others. International development as we now know it emerged in the post-World War Two era, drawing on economic development theories from the 18th century onwards. Over time, however, international development has taken on new dimensions, encompassing social and political, as well as economic, transformation. Development is a profoundly political process, shaped by and shaping social actors and political institutions at local, national, regional and global levels. |
Postcolonial Writing |
This course will introduce students to some of the key texts and critical debates within postcolonial studies, ranging from the colonial fiction of E.M. Forster and Rudyard Kipling to contemporary novels (from Africa, South Asia, and the U.S.); the dub poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson; and the British-Asian television comedy series Goodness Gracious Me. Primary texts will be explored with reference to a range of key terms and topics including (inter alia) orientalism, counter-discourse, mimicry, nationalism, ethnicity and subjectivity, diaspora, language, the body. |
Print and Gender Rebellion in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800 |
The first age of mass media, created by the printing press, led to a revolution in how gender was seen, portrayed, and understood in the early modern world. This course will examine people in early modern Europe who refused to conform to gender norms side-by-side with the media they created and that created them in return. It will show how their gender rebellion was enabled by the material realities of the formation and distribution of print. Year taken: Year 3 Undergraduate SCQF Credits: 20 Not running in 2026/27 |
Professional Development (MBA) |
This skills development based course is designed to help full-time MBA participants enhance their leadership capability and professional competence as well as their potential to develop strong employability skills and successfully pitch for senior executive roles in a range of organisations. |
Queens, Heiresses and Lords: Women Making Medieval Scotland |
Elite women played important roles within the Scottish political community and on a wider, European stage, even if narratives of the 'making of' medieval Scotland have tended to foreground male actors. Throughout this course, students will carefully assess women's involvement in politics and aristocratic culture between c.1066 and c.1328, examining figures such as queen consorts, royal mothers and daughters, countesses and noblewomen. The course will be structured around weekly seminars which explore different arenas of royal and aristocratic life. |
Queer Geographies: Spatialising Sexuality and Gender |
Spatialising Sexuality and Gender: Queer and Trans Geographies¿ provides an opportunity for students to critically, and self-reflexively, consider how sexuality and gender inform, and unfold in, the everyday spaces we inhabit. |
Queering Health and Social Sciences: LGBTQIA+ Perspectives |
This course will introduce students to key theoretical, philosophical, and historical perspectives, issues and debates on queerness. At the heart of this programme is the view that emphasises a multiplicity of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and + (LGBTQIA+) experiences that are grounded within specific political and ideological contexts. The course uses a decolonial optic that challenges dominant Western centrism within queer studies. |
Radhika Govinda |
Radhika (she/her) is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and a former Director of GENDER.ED (2023-2025), the University's interdisciplinary hub for gender and sexualities studies. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, she held a Lectureship in Gender Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi, India. At Edinburgh, she is the Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for her School, and an active member of the Centre for South Asian Studies. |
Rae Rosenberg |
Rae Rosenberg is a Lecturer in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a Ph.D. in Critical Human Geography from York University and his work explores the contestations of living, and forms of resistance and belonging, amongst multiply-marginalized LGBTQ2+ people. His writing is published in journals such as Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Urban Studies, and Urban Geography. Rae's research interests include: |
Rania Hamad |
Rania Hamad (she/her) is currently in the second year of a part-time PhD in Social Work, undertaking qualitative research to explore the causes and motivations of hate crime via the perspectives of people who commit hate crime. |