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Dr Rebecca Hewer is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED, is GENDER.ED's Education Advisor, and convenes GENDER.ED’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Reading Group (GSS-RG)
She is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED, and 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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Dr Kaveri Qureshi is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED
Dr Kaveri Qureshi is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED and 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 on the relationships between health and family. She also leads lines of inquiry around intersectional inequalities and coloniality within wider collaborative projects. She is the author/editor of more than ten books or journal special issues, including two monographs: Marital breakdown among British Asians (2016), and Chronic illness in a Pakistani labour diaspora (2019)..
Kaveri Qureshi's staff profileAssociate Directors
Dr Wannes Dupont is an Associate Director of GENDER.ED.
Dr Wannes Dupont is an Associate Director of GENDER.ED.
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.
Wannes Dupont's University profile pageAdvisors & Leads
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 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.
Patricia Erskine’s University profile pageNetwork Coordinator
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.