Former members
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James Bell
Meryl Kenny
Role
Dr Meryl Kenny is GENDER.ED's Education Advisor.Meryl is a Professor in Gender and Politics and Co-Director of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network.
She is a member of the Steering Group, and is the Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Project Lead and the Co-Convener of ‘Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World.’
Sheher Bano
Role
Sheher Bano is one of GENDER.ED’s Undergraduate Communications and Events Interns.Sheher Bano is a fourth year Sociology student at the School of Social and Political Science.
She is passionate about all things race, gender, sexuality and other forms of identities and resulting inequalities within the de-colonial and/or post-colonial context, particularly within South Asia.
Clara Calvert
Role
Dr Clara Calvert is Chancellor’s Fellow in Global Challenges at the Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, within the Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences.Mouna Chatt
Hope Conway-Gebbie
Harriet Cornell
Rhea Gandhi
Role
Rhea Gandhi is GENDER.ED’s PhD Communications and Editorial Assistant.Rhea Gandhi is a psychotherapist, group therapist and liberation-oriented educator and researcher. She is doing her PhD in Counselling Studies and broadly exploring decolonial approaches to counselling training.
Agomoni Ganguli Mitra
Role
Dr. Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra is Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow in Bioethics and Global Health Ethics, and Deputy-director of the JK Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law.Her research is concerned with global bioethics, structural and gender justice. ethical issues related to global health emergencies, public health, global surrogacy, sex-selection, biomedical research, and racism in health.
Lauren Hood
Amy Life
Role
Amy Life is one of GENDER.ED’s Undergraduate Communications and Events Interns.Amy Life is a fourth year French and Philosophy student at the school of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.
She is passionate about ending all forms of Gender Based Violence and has a strong interest in promoting equality within her local communities. Amy is particularily interested in the links between epistemic injustice and the way marginalised identities are perceived when fighting for justice in both individual and group settings.
Sam Maccallum
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.
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.
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.
Sarah Prescott
Syjil Ramjuthan
Dylan Walch
Role
Dylan Walch is the 2024-2025 Vice President of Education at the Edinburgh University Student Association.He is responsible for representing students on issues of learning and teaching, and is also the key Sabbatical Officer contact for EUSA’s Programme and School Representatives.
