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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| Name | Details |
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Gender in Islam |
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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, Feminist Foreign Policy and Diplomacy |
This course provides an opportunity to critically interrogate the adoption of feminist and pro-gender foreign policies and diplomatic practices by a growing number of states and organisations, sparking both political debate and scholarly engagement. It offers a platform for the conduct of advanced in-depth reflection and analysis of this development through a range of conceptual and theoretical debates. Undergirding the course is the broad question of what it means to conduct feminist and/or pro-gender foreign policy and diplomacy. |
Gender, Marginality and Social Change |
The focus of Gender, Marginality and Social Change is on examining, through an intersectional lens, people¿s lived experiences, socially structured institutional arrangements and processes, and collective 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. |
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 |
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. |