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Nacim Pak-Shiraz
Tulsa Miqdhaadh Moosa
Role
Tulsa Miqdhaadh Moosa is the 2023-2024 President for Girl*Up and third-year MA International Relations and International Law Student at The University of Edinburgh.She is passionate about advocating for gender equality and intersectional feminism.
Jacqueline McMahon
Role
Jacqueline McMahon is a Senior Research Support Specialist at the Growing Research Together (GRT) Programme.She plays a leading role in the design and delivery of work packages/projects which are a priority for creating GRT’s future research support services; specifically, those that reduce risk to the university and create opportunity, as well as supporting research support professionals.
Lesley McAra
Role
Professor Lesley McAra is the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and is a Professor of Penology at Edinburgh Law School.Lesley’s research interests lie in the general areas of the sociology of punishment and the sociology of law and deviance. Particular interests include: youth crime and juvenile justice; gender justice and community well-being; the politics of crime control; and comparative criminal justice. She is Co-Director (with Susan McVie) of theEdinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, and directs the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Ewan McAndrew
Fiona Mackay
Role
Professor Fiona Mackay is the Founding Director of GENDER.ED. She is a feminist political scientist and is the Acting Head of the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.Fiona’s research focuses on the impact of gender reform efforts during periods of restructuring and institutional change, addressing the extent to which global and local institutions of politics and governance may be designed or reformed to address gender inequality and promote gender justice.
rashné limki
Role
Dr rashné limki is a Lecturer in Work and Organisation Studies at the Business School.Her academic thinking and writing focuses mainly on the ethics and politics of work in a global context. In particular, she is interested in the role of difference (primarily, race and gender) in the emergence and distribution of new forms of work. More recently, she has been thinking about the eugenicist underpinnings of discourses on technology.
Meryl Kenny
Role
Dr Meryl Kenny is a Senior Lecturer in Gender and Politics, Convenor of the Gender Politics Research Group, and Co-Director of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network.Meryl’s research interests bridge the intersection of gender politics, party politics, territorial politics, and institutional approaches to the study of politics.
Laura Jeffery
Louise Jackson
Role
Professor Louise Jackson holds a Personal Chair of Modern Social History in the School of History, Classics, and Archeology.Her research is concerned with histories of women and gender in modern Britain, as well as with histories of policing and surveillance, crime, deviancy, childhood, youth and sexuality.