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Dr Radhika Govinda is the Director of GENDER.ED.
Radhika is the Director of GENDER.ED. She is a feminist sociologist at the School of Social and Political Science.
Radhika’s research bridges the fields of sociology of gender, international development and South Asian Studies. Her work sheds light on the importance of understanding gender politics at the intersections of caste, class, race/ethnicity and religion in women’s and social movements, in development policies and practice, in everyday social relations, and in the global dynamics of knowledge production. She was the Principal Investigator of the recently concluded international project, Teaching Feminisms, Transforming Lives: Questions of Identity, Pedagogy and Violence in India and the UK.
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Dr Wannes Dupont is an Associate Director of GENDER.ED.
Wannes is on research leave for Semester 1 of 2025/26. Zubin Mistry will be interim Associate Director during this period.
Wannes is a Lecturer in the History of Sexuality at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
He previously taught at Yale-NUS College (Singapore), Utrecht University (Netherlands), and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). His work, publications, and teaching primarily concern the European and global history of sexuality, and the intersections of biopolitics and religion.
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Dr Zubin Mistry is an Associate Director of GENDER.ED
Zubin is the interim Associate Director for Semester 1 of 2025/26, whilst Wannes Dupont is on research leave.
Dr Zubin Mistry is a Lecturer in Early Medieval European History. He is a historian of early medieval Europe between 500 and 1000 whose work focuses in particular on reproduction.
His research uses topics like abortion and infertility to think about religious beliefs, legal regimes, political culture and medical practice.
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Dr Kaveri Qureshi is an Associate Director of GENDER.ED
Dr Kaveri Qureshi is a Senior Lecturer at the Global Health Policy Unit, which lies within Social Policy at the School of Social and Political Science.
She works on intersectional inequalities in health, work and family life, and relationships between health and family. She also leads lines of inquiry around intersectional inequalities and coloniality, within wider collaborative research. She is the author of two monographs: Marital breakdown among British Asians (2016), and Chronic illness in a Pakistani labour diaspora (2019).
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Dr Rosalind Cavaghan is the Project Manager and Lead Researcher of the ‘Doing Gender Sensitive Research’ Project.
She is an independent scholar and consultant who manages GENDER.ED's SFC/GCRF funded project ‘Integrating Gender into GCRF Funding Bids and Projects’. The project aims to increase gender sensitive research capacity across all disciplines, especially STEM at Edinburgh and in partner institutions.
Her research applies a feminist political economy lens to EU macro economic policy, climate transition policies and post-Brexit trade policy, focusing on intersectional policy impacts and bureaucratic and civil society knowledge production processes, that seek to promote or challenge existing policy.
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Dr Rebecca Hewer is GENDER.ED's Education Advisor and convenes GENDER.ED’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Reading Group (GSS-RG)
She is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Sociology, School of Social and Political Sciences.
Her research explores the socio-legal regulation of (primarily) women’s bodies, the politics of knowledge production, and feminist utopian thinking. She is particularly interested in reproductive and sexual governance and justice, and prefigurative policy reform. Rebecca convenes the Gender and Sexualities Reading Group.
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Prof Fiona Mackay is GENDER.ED's Governance and Policy Advisor.
Fiona is the founding Director of GENDER.ED (2017-2022).
She is a feminist political scientist at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her 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.
Fiona is a member of the Steering Group.
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Dr Patricia Erskine is GENDER.ED’s Stakeholder Relations Advisor.
Patricia is Head of Stakeholder Relations & Policy Officer for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
She is a member of the Steering Group.
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Claire Edminson is GENDER.ED’s Network Coordinator.
Claire provides administrative support to the GENDER.ED core team, with a focus on event organisation and communication facilitation.