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06 March 2023

Gendered Risks in Survey Research

As researchers of gender and sexuality, we are reflexive of our own positions in our research, but how do we understand the experiences of survey workers who are crucial to quantitative […]

01 March 2023

GENDER.ED newsletter – March 2023

It’s March and there is a lot going on! Take a look at our newsletter here and don’t forget to sign up to attend ‘Reproductive Justice Now!’ featuring a roundtable […]

27 February 2023

Julien Mittre – ECR Spotlight

Reflections on Academic ReflectionQuinn M., 1991 Self, sculpture by Marc Quinn, accessed 21 February 2023, http://marcquinn.com/artworks/single/self-1991. 

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24 February 2023

Care, fear and mothering in the British asylum accommodation system

We are revisiting our Annual Blogathon with today’s post! “Writing about motherhood in the asylum system, I’ve come to realize, requires thinking about forms of life that survive, resist, and often […]

20 February 2023

Saigol’s Pakistan: a feminist reading of the nationalist project

What archives and methods do we need to conduct a feminist analysis of nation-building? How do feminist movements locate themselves in relation to religious politics? This review of the late Pakistani […]

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17 February 2023

Sacrificeable bodies: gender-based violence against LGBTIQ+ people and displacement

Today, as part of our LGBT+ History month series, we’re revisiting a powerful piece from our recently concluded Blogathon in which Tina Dixon shows how the subject of gender-based violence […]

13 February 2023

The Queer and Trans Theory We Love

It’s LGBT+ History Month and GENDER.ED asked some of our friends to reflect on the queer and trans theory that they love. Here’s celebrating scholarship that shapes our lives and […]

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08 February 2023

Does Gender Affect Our Approaches to Climate Breakdown?

Image: Local Green Belt Movement members survey their work. Credit: USAID/Neil ThomasToday, GENDER.ED teams up with the Edinburgh Earth Initiative to share our toolkit on gender sensitive research. 

06 February 2023

LGBT+ History Month: Challenging sexual humanitarian bordering through co-creative ethnographic filmmaking

As part of LGBT+ History month, we’re revisiting past blogs from our recently-concluded Blogathon.

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03 February 2023

Educating Afghan Girls: Will it be possible to move from the confines of cages towards the sky?

At the end of last year, Afghanistan’s Taliban-run higher education ministry said that female students would not be allowed access to the country’s universities until further notice. In light of […]

30 January 2023

Reflecting on 2022 and Looking Ahead

This is GENDER.ED’s fifth year! It seems fitting that our first substantial blog post of the year looks back on the year past and shares with you what we hope […]

26 January 2023

GENDER.ED Newsletter – January 2023

Happy new year! We have a new Director, just relaunched the Gender Politics Reading Group as the Gender and Sexuality Studies Reading Group under the aegis of GENDER.ED, and have […]

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