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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Nuria Lopez Vazquez |
Nuria is a writer and a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. Her current work "soil care, home gardens and monoculture" is a feminist political ecology narrative of agriculture in Myanmar. She examines the interwoven realities of inequality, neocolonialism, and environmental pollution in the Shan mountains of Myanmar calling for agricultural development to transform into a food justice approach that could address Myanmar’s history of ethnic oppression and military power over the land. |
One Pusumane |
One Pusumane is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. |
Pablo Schyfter |
Pablo Schyfter (he/him) has carried out different kinds of teaching and research in science and technology studies (STS), including feminist STS. He has investigated the masculinisation of engineering practices, people and artefacts, and has developed theoretical frameworks for the study of gender and technology. |
Patricia Allmer |
My research and curatorial projects focus on women artists and writers in relation to Surrealism and its legacies. |
Patricia Jeffrey |
Patricia is an emerita Professor of Sociology. She studied undergraduate Social Anthropology at Cambridge, masters in Sociology (on race relations) at Nottingham, and doctoral work at Bristol (for work on Pakistani heritage families in Bristol); taught in Edinburgh between 1972 and 2005, briefly in Social Anthropology and since after 1978 in Sociology, with main teaching in the fields of gender, gender and development, development studies and South Asian Studies. She has acted as peer reviewer for a wide range of journals and book publishers. |
People First: The Anthropology of International Development |
Much of international development is approached in terms of what organizations can do to help people living in precarious and impoverished circumstances. From development theories and policies to organizational forms and product innovations, the complexity of approaches makes it easy to lose sight of the human element. How are development projects understood and experienced by their participants designers, leaders, implementers, and recipients alike? What are the ethnographic realities in which these interventions play out? |
Philippa Saunders |
I am a biomedical scientist who has spent more than 30 years investigating the mechanisms that are responsible for the impact of sex steroids (androgens and oestrogens) on reproductive and other tissue systems. |
Political Emotions |
This political theory module introduces students to key philosophical debates about the role of emotions in social life. It problematises dominant views that oppose emotion to reason and offers more complex analyses of how emotions move individuals and groups to act and position themselves politically. The module starts by outlining the main approaches to the study of emotions. It then moves on to debates about rationalism in politics and social science. |
Political Philosophy |
This course covers issues and questions in historical and / or contemporary political philosophy. Political philosophy examines normative issues connected to (1) the relations between states and (2) the relations between states and those subject to their rule. |
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. |