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.
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Delwar Hussain |
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Design and Society |
This course will introduce students to design practices that stand self-consciously outside the mainstream of consumer driven design and which instead seek to employ socially and environmentally responsible practices that foreground the needs of marginalised groups and challenge existing power structures. |
Design for Ageing |
Contemporary representations of people in the later stages of life, from anti-ageing face cream advertisements to road signs depicting bent human bodies, imply that ageing is unwelcome, unpleasant, and a problem to be solved. Some suggest this constitutes a kind of double discrimination: one that acts against older members of society and also our future older selves. |
Development and Decolonization in Latin America |
This is an Honours course in Geography that studies the continent that we now call Latin America through a decolonial, feminist, and anti-capitalist lens. It enables students to work effectively with decolonial theoretical perspectives and non-Eurocentric knowledges in order to analyse the cultural, political, economic, environmental, and epistemic challenges facing contemporary Latin America and the diverse and creative ways in which Latin Americans mobilize against coloniality and oppression. Credit level: 10 Year taken: Year 4 Undergraduate SCQF credits: 20 |
Digital Markets and Society |
We are currently experiencing the profound effects of the digitalization of the economy. This course addresses the societal implications of these new digital marketplaces and platforms. It covers a range of interconnected themes: from big data and digital labour, to illicit practices on the dark web, to financial automation and algorithmic governance. Delivered by a team of lecturers conducting research on these subjects, students will learn about technologies such as cryptocurrencies, computer trading and financial algorithms. |
Diversities: Canada and Beyond |
Multiculturalism was invented in Canada. |
Early Modern History: A Connected World |
This course introduces students to key themes and debates in early modern history (c. 1500-1800), using selected case studies from Britain, Europe and the wider world. Particular attention will be paid to the usefulness (or otherwise) of the concept of 'early modernity', and the extent to which it can be applied to the world beyond Europe. Credit Level: 8 Year taken: Year 1 Undergraduate |
Ebtihal Mahadeen |
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Education and Conflict |
This is an interdisciplinary course, which while focusing on the field of Education and Development draws on the parent disciplines of International Relations, Human Geography, International Development and Peace Studies. Across the duration of the course we will explore the different theoretical frames and global discourses around peacebuilding including theories of violence, positive and negative peace, liberal peace and local and hybrid peace. |
Elise Watson |
Elise Watson (she/her) is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the school of History, Classics and Archaeology. She researches and teaches on gender history and the history of the early printed book. Her current project, ‘A Scandalous Sisterhood? Female Collaboration in the First Age of Print’, examines women’s business relationships in the early modern book trade, and the history of women’s labour. Recent publications |