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.
If you would like to be added to the Directory, please contact us at gender.ed@ed.ac.uk.
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| Name | Details |
|---|---|
Gulf Politics |
This course offers taught postgraduate students an introduction to the history, politics, and development of the Gulf states of the Middle East. A distinct sub-system of the region, the resourcerich states of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran command enduring relevance within the international system. |
Hannah Halliwell |
Biography |
Harish Nair |
Professor Harish Nair is a Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences and the Co-Director of the Centre for Global Health at the Usher Institute. He is also involved with RESCEU and RESPIRE. Harish is both medically and scientifically trained (MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi in India and PhD from University of Edinburgh). |
Harriet Cornell |
Harriet (she/her) taught Economic and Social History, and Scottish History at the School of History, Classics & Archaeology, before moving to Edinburgh Law School after completing a Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellowship. |
Hatice Yıldız |
Dr Hatice Yıldız is a Lecturer in Modern Gender History since 1750 at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. She is affiliated with both the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History and the Edinburgh Centre for Global History. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, economic and social histories of South Asia and the Middle East. |
Health and Human Rights: Principles, Practice and Dilemmas |
This course will examine key concepts, principles and instruments of human rights and bioethics and discuss its application to the right to health and contemporary challenges in global public health practice. These challenges will be explored through specific case studies which address wide ranging ethical questions: from system level (financing and delivery of health care), individual litigation, community level organising to addressing ethical questions in biomedical/life sciences or public health research. |
Health inequities and the social determinants of health (Distance learning) |
Inequalities or disparities in the health of different population groups are seen both within and between countries. The term 'health inequities' denotes differences in the health status of groups occupying unequal positions in society; such inequities can be seen across multiple axes including gender, ethnicity/race, area and socioeconomic position. This course aims to demonstrate the extent of inequalities in health, to explore the underlying determinants of health and health inequalities, and to consider policy responses to health inequities. |
Health, bodies and embodiment |
This course supports students to understand and engage critically with social scientific approaches to human bodies and embodiment, and to appreciate the relevance of these to studying health. It is primarily designed for students undertaking the MA Health, Science and Society but takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing widely from sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, and is open to students in Years 3 and 4 across the University. The course will be of particular interest to students undertaking degrees in Social and Political Sciences. |
Helen Parker |
Dr Helen Parker is a Lecturer in Japanese at the Asian Studies department of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. |
History of Art 1A Art and Belief in Europe, 500 to 1700 |
Explore the relationship of art, power and belief through this introduction to art and from late antiquity to the Renaissance. History of Art 1A provides an introduction to Art History at university level. The lectures in History of Art 1 cover almost 1400 years of the history of art, from c.500 to c.1700, from the Early Medieval period to the Baroque. The course (though it follows a roughly chronological sequence) is not a chronological survey and does not pretend to provide comprehensive coverage of this vast and complex subject. |