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.
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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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Directory entry type content
| Name | Details |
|---|---|
Gender, Power and Representation |
This course examines the interconnections between gender, power and representation in both historical and contemporary contexts. It is global in focus, examining patterns of political participation and representation across a wide range of countries and regions, whilst also delving into in-depth case studies of the gendered dynamics of political power in political parties, legislatures and executives in particular contexts. Throughout the course, we will examine the problems and questions raised by the issues of gender, power and political representation. |
Gender, Sexualities and Health |
This is an introductory course addressing gender and sexuality in healthcare contexts. The course will provide a basis for understanding health from interdisciplinary social science perspectives, drawing in the ways gender and sexuality play important roles for understanding and shaping healthcare experiences. Although designed for the MA Health in Social Science students it will be available and interesting to students studying across other disciplines and subject areas. SCQF Credits: 20 Credit Level: 8 Year Taken: UG2 Not running in 2026/27 |
Gender, Sexuality and Literature |
Historically and in the present, gender and sexuality have been constructed and maintained through social norms and restrictions. While heteronormative and patriarchal cultures have insisted on prescribed gendered roles, individuals have found ways to subvert these norms. Meanwhile, feminist, gender and sexuality studies have examined the ways in which gender roles are constructed. This course examines the centrality of gender and sexuality in the discussion of literature and culture across space and time. |
Gendered Soundings? Sound art & feminism |
Visual Culture, by the nature of its very name tends to favour an occularcentric appreciation of contemporary art and culture. Since the 1980s, the term sound art has been used to describe works which merge music and visual art. This has been driven in part by developments in sound reproduction technology as well as experimental composition, interdisciplinary practices and installation formats. Whilst often considered in relation to how it differs from traditional music practices, the development of sound art as a dematerialised practice, shares many parallels with visual art. |
Gill Haddow |
I have a background in the sociology of health and medicine and have developed a special interest in emerging scientific and medical biotechnologies. Conceptually I have brought these areas together through a focus on embodiment, identity and relationships. |
Giulia Liberatore |
Giulia (she/her) is a Lecturer at IMES and Social Anthropology and an academic lead on the Muslims in Europe research theme at the Alwaleed Centre. She is currently working on an ERC-funded project on Multi-Religious Encounters in Urban Settings (MEUS), with a focus on Palermo, Italy. Her previous research focused on: Islam/Muslims in Europe; gender and religious authority and leadership; gender and migration; subjectivity; the Somali diaspora; the politics of difference. |
Global Connections since 1450 |
This course explores the past history of global connections and disconnections from c. 1450 to the present day. The course builds on the foundations established in the first year history courses which explore the makings of the medieval, early modern and modern worlds. In this course, we drill down into key themes in global history to provide a foundation for honours courses in global history and in regional histories beyond Europe and North America. The course explores the global history of three themes - goods, peoples and ideas. |
Global Environment and Society |
In this course, we examine relations between humans, non-humans and the planet through the prism of contemporary dynamics of capitalism, the subjective logics that underwrite them and resistances and struggles against these. Why capitalism? Because it is through capitalist relations (of appropriation, extraction, commodification, exploitation, etc.) that many other forms of domination are reproduced; for example, colonial, gender, racial, and of course class domination, as well as forms of extraction and exploitation of non-humans. |
Global LGBT Fiction |
This course will introduce students to the increasingly global genre of contemporary LGBT literature. A central focus of the course will be how LGBT subjectivities, needs, and desires differ across regional and national contexts and how LGBT culture and personhood are being rethought and restructured in the wake of HIV/AIDS becoming a more manageable illness and of important though uneven gains in civil rights and recognitions. |
Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity |
This course focuses on the relationship between modernity and modernism: the social and cultural phenomena that constitute twentieth-century life across a range of global contexts, and the aesthetic response to these unevenly distributed phenomena. Students will consider the ways that writers engage with, and react against, the status quo, in terms of both literary tradition and the social and political upheavals that manifested themselves in the early part of the century through processes such as industrialisation, migration and urbanisation. |