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05 April 2022

A Gender Observation of the Portrayal of Masculinities in ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’ by Lil Nas X – Heidi Hafner

This blog series showcases the student winners of the Yuan Changying Prize, sponsored by GENDER.ED and SPS’s Gender Politics Research Group. The prize recognises outstanding ‘gender observations’ written by students […]

Logos. genderED. RACE.ED. Critique: Centre for Ethics and Critical thoughts. IASH.

01 April 2022

Rosa Luxemburg at 150: A Podcast with Dr Mihaela Mihai, Dr Maša Mrovlje, and Dr Jamie Allinson

To mark Women’s History Month, GENDER.ED, RACE.ED, CRITIQUE, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) present Rosa Luxemburg at 150, a podcast featuring Dr Mihaela Mihai, Dr Maša […]

28 March 2022

Witches of Scotland: A campaign to right the historic wrongs done to women

“At a time when women were not even allowed to speak as witnesses in a courtroom, they were accused and killed because they were poor, different, vulnerable, or in many […]

18 March 2022

Walking the tightrope between tradition and taboo: Gender, cemeteries and the City

Swati Mohana KrishnanSwati Mohana Krishnan is pursuing her PhD from the School of Development Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi. Her research work is to understand the shrinking spaces for the dead […]

Words written on a whiteboard: Decolonising Feminist Knowledge

25 February 2022

Upcoming Event: Disrupting Coloniality in the Classroom? Decolonisation, Feminism and Critical Pedagogies

As part of CRITIQUE | GENDER.ED | RACE.ED Roundtables on Decolonising the AcademyDisrupting Coloniality in the Classroom? Decolonisation, Feminism and Critical PedagogiesTuesday, 8th March 16:00-17:30

11 February 2022

Queer Theory and Physics Education: Dr. Pablo Schyfter speaks with Prof. Ramón Barthelemy

Pablo Schyfter (University of Edinburgh) and Ramón Barthelemy (University of Utah) discuss the challenges of queering physics education research, bringing ideas of queerness, race and class to the study of […]

28 January 2022

Introducing the New Steering Group Members

In 2021 GENDER.ED welcomed Clara Calvert (Usher Institute) Rachel Hosker (Special Collections), Dr Rae Rosenberg (Geosciences), Dr Merlin Seller (ECA), Dr Lucy Weir (ECA) and Dr Hatice Yıldız (HCA) to […]

20 January 2022

Reflecting on 2021 and Looking Ahead

As we welcome the New Year and head into GENDER.ED’s fourth year running, we would like to mark some highlights from 2021 and share what we have in store for […]

19 November 2021

GENDER.ED Early Career researchers: Are you interested in Mini-Mixers?

At GENDER.ED, we know that it has been difficult for everyone at University of Edinburgh- but especially Early Career Researchers –  to build and foster a sense of community over […]

22 October 2021

Gina Gwenffrewi – ECR Spotlight

My PhD research at the University of Edinburgh (2016-2021): Transgender Gaze, Neoliberal Haze: the impact of neoliberalism on trans female bodies in the Anglophone Global NorthMy research was inspired by, […]

21 October 2021

Ashlee Christoffersen Elected as a Steering Committee Member of the Standing Group on Gender and Politics

Congratulations to  Dr Ashlee Christoffersen  who has recently been elected to serve on the steering committee of the European Consortium of Political Research  (ECPR) Standing Group on Gender and Politics.The […]

15 October 2021

Upcoming GENDER.ED Event: Rediscovering Feminist Histories

Together with IASH, GENDER.ED presents ‘Rediscovering Feminist Histories’, an event that will be running as part of the Being Human Festival 2021, on Thursday 18 November 2021 at 17.00 GMT.

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