GENDER.ED Directory

Welcome to the GENDER.ED Directory. It brings together gender and sexualities studies researchers from across the University of Edinburgh, and gender and sexualities studies-related courses at undergraduate ordinary, honours, and postgraduate levels. With over 330 entries, the GENDER.ED Directory provides a comprehensive overview of the research and teaching being conducted at the University of Edinburgh. The Directory is designed to be used by prospective and current students and researchers, potential collaborators, and the wider community interested in gender and sexualities studies.

Researchers found in the Directory range from our PhD and early career researchers to Professors. Within these profiles, you will find details of research interests, ongoing research projects, noteworthy gender and sexualities-related publications, and teaching activity. We hope these entries will enable researchers to connect with one another (across and beyond the institution), encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration.

Course entries on the Directory provide insight into the content taught in each course, the course’s credit level, and the year taken. Course entries provide a valuable resource to students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, assisting in navigating gender and sexualities studies pathways through their University programmes.

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Name	Details
Gender and Culture	Gender concerns us all. It is also through gender, and its cultural representations, that we can develop critical thinking, re-evaluate our own views, and learn to see beyond stereotypes. This team-taught course on gender and culture offers a series of different forms of analysis through which we can 'read' gender.
Gender and Development	It is now widely recognised that pervasive gender inequalities mean that development processes have differential effects on women and men. Early feminist critiques emphasised the `marginal` position of women in development and advocated their `integration`. Later critiques have argued that women`s `marginality` reflects the systematic gender bias in official statistics and development planning in general, and that women are already affected by and involved in development in locally variable and class specific ways.
Gender and Media in the Arab World	This course provides a gender-centric analysis of various media (including print, broadcast, and online media) in the Arab world. Focusing on women in particular, the course will visit several central themes: Arab media as potential feminist counterpublics, representations of women in Arab media, Arab women's media activism, Arab women within media institutions, sexuality in Arab media, representations of Arab/Muslim women in Western media, and women in the media during the so-called Arab Spring.
Gender and Peace Processes in a Changing World	This five-week online course for peacebuilding professionals provides an overview of the latest developments in the field of gender, peace and security, with a focus on gender inclusive peace processes in a rapidly changing world.
Gender and Translation	The course focuses on the convergence of gender-related issues and translation studies.
Gender and Visual Representations	In this course students will learn to engage critically with past and contemporary modes of visual representations of gender. The course offers a comparative perspective by looking at the processes that shape meanings of gender in both Western and non-Western contexts. In doing so, the course aims to problematise the idea that the notion of gender carries universal meanings, and that they work in the same ways across different societies, cultures and temporalities. SCQF Credits: 20 Credit Level: 8 Year Taken: UG1 or UG2
Gender and Work: A Global Survey from 1750 to WWII	We all experience work as gendered beings, in a world structured by racial capitalism and the legacy of imperialism. Yet the mainstream historical narratives of economy and labour still resist a serious engagement with gender. This course will provide you with alternative (feminist) conceptual frameworks within which to study the past and present issues of labour, production, value, cultures of work, inequality, and skill. SCQF Credits: 40 Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: UG4 Not running in 2026/27
Gender in Islam	Description: This course explores how scripture, theology and social realities reflect the complex and competing claims around issues of gender, sexuality, and ethics in Islamic thought and history. Students will engage with a number of human rights and feminist debates, and how they have been placed in a critical conversation with the Islamic intellectual tradition. Content:
Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Britain c. 1860-1960	The course aims to examine the ways in which ideas about gender, sexuality and citizenship informed definitions of criminality and deviancy in Britain in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores a set of key debates concerning the nature of regulation in the modern state as well as focusing on specific examples - the policing of juvenile delinquency, homosexuality and prostitution - in order to examine the relationship between expert opinion, popular culture, social policy and social action.
Gender, Peace and Security	This course will examine the gendered political economies of peacebuilding and armed conflict. A variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding the relationships between gender, armed conflict and peacebuilding will be employed, with an eye toward assessing the strengths and limitations of each.The relationship between gender and war has historically been seen as so obvious (men wage war, and women weep) that it has largely been ignored by scholars and politicians who think about war.

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