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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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 |
Emily Mann |
Emily (she/her) is an ESRC funded PhD student in Criminology and Sociology at the University of Edinburgh researching policing and gender in Scotland. Emily is an Associate Fellow of the HE Academy and teaches criminology, criminal justice, politics and gender studies and co-hosts the Gender & Sexuality Studies Deep Dive into Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray. Emily features as a guest sociologist on BBC Radio Scotland and her award winning public engagement fringe debut with the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas asked ‘Can the Police be Feminist?”. |
Emma Gieben-Gamal |
My subject interest lies in the history of design and material culture studies and I am particularly interested in issues revolving around the social and cultural construction of space as they are articulated through design. In 2005 this resulted in the publication of a book charting the relationship between garden design and wider socio-cultural, political, scientific and philosophical movements. More recently my interests have returned to interior spaces and the significance of gender in the construction of space, place and spatial meaning, which picks up on work that was published in an a |
Environment Justice and Development |
This course aims to introduce students to relationships between the environment (nature, biodiversity, natural resources, ecosystem services etc.) and (international) development (well-being, social justice, inclusion etc.), and the ways in which we might understand these relations in order to intervene in them. It takes a critical perspective on mainstreamed approaches to 'sustainable development' and explores 'alternatives' that promote environmental and social justice. |
Epistemic Injustice |
This course will introduce and examine a range of topics at the intersection of epistemology and political/social/feminist philosophy, examining our actual epistemic practices in light of the relations of power and subordination that exist between differently placed groups in society, and looking at different proposals for how this should shape our theorizing about knowledge and ignorance. Credit Level: 10 Year taken: Year 4 Undergraduate SCQF Credits: 20 |