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
Sophie Buijsen	Sophie Buijsen is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science.
South Asia in the World	South Asia in the World is an interdisciplinary course which offers undergraduate students a first understanding of the Society, Politics, Culture and Economics of South Asia and provides a critical assessment of its growing significance in world politics and the global economy. It introduces students to the history, social, cultural and political dynamics of the region. Key themes which will be covered in the course are for instance (a) what is the lasting legacy of Partition on the political and economic integration of the region?
South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy	South Asia today is not only geo-politically significant but has risen to global prominence as an important locale for burgeoning economic growth and development, cultural production and nation building. This course provides a theoretical framework and empirical illustrations to make this complex region both accessible and better understood. The teaching is multi-disciplinary, providing a unique mix of sociological and anthropological approaches to the region.
Sparta and Crete: Classical Greek Society Beyond Athens	The course is an introduction to the histories of ancient Sparta and Crete. Through examining evidence from Sparta and Crete during the classical period, this course aims to go beyond an Athenocentric view of 'Greek society'. In this course, students will encounter the complex and contradictory evidence for the fabric and character of classical Spartan society and the nature of her institutions through a close study of texts in translation. Lectures will focus upon political, social and economic institutions as well as ideologies of warfare and community, the role of women, and sexuality.
Sport and Recreation Management (Advanced Research Methods)	The ability to perform, complete, and present research is a crucial element of the BSc Sport and Recreation Management programme. This course builds upon the professional research experiences students gained during second-year, and recontextualises sport and recreation research within a more academic, scholarly setting.
Sport, Media and Society	This Honours level optional course provides an analysis of the mass media in industrial and industrialising societies, and considers the position of sport in the print, broadcast and electronic media from sociological, comparative and historical perspectives. Different approaches to the study of the mass media in society and the process by which media messages are produced, distributed and interpreted are critically assessed.
Stephen Walker	Stephen Walker is Professor of Accounting in the Edinburgh Business School.
Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing (Postgraduate)	The course will use the figure of the stranger to introduce students to a range of post-war writing from the 1950s to the present. The stranger here takes many forms: ambivalent tricksters, aspiring immigrants, invading armies, or an unhiemlich sense of ‘strangeness within’ as a constituent factor in the creation of identity. The course will include prose, poetry and drama that explore the social and political trends and upheavals of the period, from the Windrush Generation of the 1950s to the digital age.
Studies of Popular Music	To facilitate contextualisation, the course will adopt a case-study approach using various artists, trends, or approaches as a lens through which to examine and apply various theoretical approaches key to the study of popular music. Particular topics, themes, and approaches may vary from year to year. While not a history course per se, the course is concerned with ensuring that students understand and can extrapolate from some of the key historical developments in popular music.
Sue Widdicombe	My research has dealt with the topics of self and identities. Identity is recognised as important throughout the human sciences, and there are many different perspectives on the nature of identity. What characterises my approach is a concern to study how individuals ‘do’ identity, that is, how they construct and mobilise particular identities in interaction with others and with what effects (interpersonal, social, ideological). Related to this is an interest in interaction, discursive psychology and conversation analysis.

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