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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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 Health Epidemiology |
This course will consider aspects of selected broad topics in Global Health Epidemiology, especially those related to disease burden and their policy implications. The student will gain some experience of international health issues through consideration of a number of current global health challenges - pandemics, antimicrobial resistance, climate change and health, conflict and health, gender and health Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate |
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. |
Global Perspectives on Child and Adolescent Mental Health |
Child and adolescent mental health has been identified by the World Health Organisation as a major, yet neglected global health priority. This course will provide an overview of different mental health conditions that can affect children and young people and the social settings, determinants and structural factors which can exacerbate poor mental health. |
Global Women Filmmakers |
The course focuses on rethinking the notion of film auteurism by engaging with the work of a number of global women filmmakers. We will look at how contexts of production and reception impact the work of female filmmakers, and we will explore a variety of issues regarding female agency and women¿s access to the means of production and distribution. What is the role of film festivals for the circulation of films made by women? Where are these films available and for which audience? In what ways are diasporic women filmmakers contributing to decolonising the gaze? |
Governing the Social: International Perspectives |
Welfare states are central sites for organising, reproducing and changing social relations in modern societies. In the context of global and internal pressures welfare states are undergoing fundamental changes. What do current welfare reforms tell us about the shifting boundaries between the state and the market, between the public and the private sphere, and about changing understandings of the appropriateness of state intervention, freedom and control of individuals, families and social groups in society? Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate Not running in 2025/26 |
Greg Walker |
Professor Greg Walker (he/him) is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Greg is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the English Association, the Society of Antiquaries, the Agder Academy of Arts and Sciences (Norway), and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an elected member of the Academia Europaea. He was Chair of the REF 2021 sub-panel for English Language and Literature. |