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
Sambhavi Ganesh	Sambhavi Ganesh is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. With the contention that 'Brahmin' is a male category, her doctoral project seeks to understand the construction and performance of Brahmin womanhood in the context of their recent advances in access to public life.
Sara Atwood	Biography I am a first-year PhD by Distance student currently living in Osaka, Japan. My research focuses on women’s religious practices in early modern Japan, primarily Edo period (1603-1868) pilgrimage to Mount Kōya and nearby temples known as nyonin Kōya (Women's Kōya), and the visual and material culture associated with this theme.
Sarah Childs	Sarah (she/her) joined the University of Edinburgh in May 2022, following a long period at the University of Bristol, and shorter spells at Birkbeck and Royal Holloway, University of London. With a degree in Politics from Sussex University, and a Master's in Women's Studies from York, Sarah studied for her PhD part-time, taking 7 years to complete her thesis. Sarah Childs joined the University of Edinburgh in May 2022. Her research centres on the theory and practice of women's political representation, gender and political parties, parliaments and institutional change.
Sarah Cunningham-Burley	Her research interests span medical and family sociology and include the social aspects of genetics and stem cell research, as well as research on families, health and illness across the lifecourse. Sarah's particular focus is on lay perspectives, understandings and experience, as well as on lay/professional relationships particularly in relation to public involvement and engagement in science and medicine.
Sarah Dunnigan	Sarah's (she/her) main research interests lie in medieval and Renaissance literature, especially Scottish, and in particular with the literature and culture of Mary, Queen of Scots' reign; in fairy tales, traditional literature, and ballads; Scottish women's writing; and the history of Scottish children's literature. She co-edited, with Shu-Fang Lai, The Land of Story Books.
Sarah Goldsmith	Dr Sarah Goldsmith is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Lecturer in Urban and Material Culture History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Sarah’s research interests include: Histories of masculinity Gender Travel The body Emotion Education Elite culture and formation Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her recent outputs include: Goldsmith, S. (2020).
Sarah Parry	Dr Sarah Parry (she/her) is Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Sciences. She is the Director for Sus+ The Edinburgh Network of Social Scientists for Sustainability; Partner on The Ocean Incubator Network; and co-lead (with Dr Faye Wade) of Sustainability in Households for the Scottish Research Alliance for Energy, Homes and Livelihoods. Her recent research interests have focussed on relations between gender, environment and sustainability in affluent countries.
Science, Knowledge and Expertise	Focussing on science, this course introduces theoretical approaches, concepts and key empirical studies that form the canon and state-of-the-art in research and critical thinking in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. It introduces students to important social science perspectives for understanding scientific practice, knowledge and expertise and their role in the modern world. Rather than taking science, knowledge and expertise as 'given', this course critically explores these categories to show how they are both constituted by and constitutive of modern society.
Screening Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity on the German Screen and Beyond	This option course focuses on the representation of sex, gender, sexuality (as well as other intersections of identity), and the representation or implication of sex acts onscreen. Students will learn to 'read' film, including close analysis (shot types, editing, sound etc.), to theorise various types of onscreen representation (using, for example, Queer Theory, Gender Theory, Psychoanalysis), and to locate film historically (including key film movements and tends such as New German Cinema, New Queer Cinema, and Transnational Cinema). SCQF Credits: 10 Credit Level: 8
Şebnem Susam-Saraeva	Prof Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (she/her) holds a Personal Chair of Translation Studies at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Şebnem’s research interests have included gender and translation, translation of French feminism, translation in maternal health, and translation and ecofeminism. Her gender-related publications include:

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