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Claire Edminson
Hatice Yıldız
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Dr Hatice Yıldız is a Lecturer in Modern Gender History since 1750 at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. She is affiliated with both the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History and the Edinburgh Centre for Global History.Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, economic and social histories of South Asia and the Middle East.
Sam Maccallum
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As VP Education, Sam is responsible for representing students on issues of learning and teaching, from assessment and feedback, to lecture recording, and ensuring students have the opportunity to shape their academic experience at Edinburgh.
Harriet Cornell
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Dr Harriet Cornell is the Political Settlements Research Programme Manager and a Carnegie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of History, Classics, and Archeology.Harriet’s interest in gender, sexuality and justice stems from her research on power, authority, law and the State in early modern Scotland, including the implications of ‘Statecraft’ for the lives of ordinary people.
Hope Conway-Gebbie
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Hope is the Women’s Liberation Officer for the Edinburgh University Students Association and is in her fourth year of an MA Sociology and Politics Degree.Her interest in gender issues also informs her academics, and she is currently writing a dissertation on the construction and evolution of dominant societal beauty standards for women.
Laura Wise
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Laura Wise is a Research Fellow and Programme Coordinator with the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep).Laura’s research explores the margins of peace processes and conflict-affected societies and their intersections with the politics of inclusion. She is particularly interested in local peace processes, ethnopolitics, and women, peace and security.
Lucy Weir
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Dr Lucy Weir is Reader in History of Art at Edinburgh College of Art.She is a specialist in dance and performance studies. Lucy has co-convened SEXES, a cross-ECA research cluster involving early-career researchers and senior faculty in the fields of gender and sexualities, since 2018.
Syjil Ramjuthan
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Syjil Ramjuthan is the 2024-2025 EUSA Women’s Liberation Officer.Syjil is a fourth year undergraduate student of Social Policy with Quantitative methods, and has been the President of the University of Edinburgh Feminist Society during the 2023-2024 academic year. She continues to prioritise making improvements to the sexual violence redressal system at the University of Edinburgh, improving the experiences of transgender students, and advocating for positive intersectional changes for students.
Merlin Seller
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Dr Merlin Seller is a Lecturer in Design and Screen Cultures at the Edinburgh College of Art, and Convener of the undergraduate course ‘Introduction to Queer Studies.’Her background is in Art History and Visual Cultural Studies, and their present research interests concern (post-)phenomenology, horror, and the non-human turn in new media.
Rae Rosenberg
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Dr Rae Rosenberg is a Lecturer in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh.Rae holds a Ph.D. in Critical Human Geography from York University and his work explores the contestations of living, and forms of resistance and belonging, amongst multiply-marginalized LGBTQ+ people.