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.
Directory entry type content
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International, Transnational and Globalized Dynamics of the Muslim World |
The aim of the course is to strengthen students' knowledge about Islam and Muslims in different parts of the world. Drawing from perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities, the course covers a number of themes including globalization, modernity, transnational relations, media, and politics. It also covers how Muslims respond to global events and concerns like migration, poverty, women's rights, and climate change among others. |
Intimate Relationships (Postgraduate) |
This course fosters informed debate about intimate relationships, personal life, family and intimate practices and social change, using sociological concepts and the evidence of social research. In addition to research on the UK, the syllabus provides access to research within and across a number of national contexts in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. There is leeway concerning the national context on which students choose to focus their reading. The extent to which concepts are ethnocentric is a question addressed within the course. |
Intimate Relationships (Undergraduate) |
For most of us, the first intimate relationships that we experience are family relationships, although at other stages of our life-cycle non-familial relationships may dominate. The course explores different sociological understandings of such relationships and debates about the nature of social change in personal life. The course reviews research on parent-child relationships, friendship and kinship relationships, sexual relationships and couple relationships, drawing on North American, Australian and New Zealand research as well as British literature. |
Introduction to Body Studies |
This course places the human body at the centre of our everyday experience and approaches it from a wide range of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives, including feminist studies, gender studies, post-modernism, post-humanism, medical humanities, disability studies, visual culture, cultural theory and philosophy. The course is concerned with embodiment, (mis)representation, performance, (in)visibility and lived experience, the themes that cross over in an emerging interdisciplinary field of body studies. |
Introduction to Disability Studies (Pre-Honours) (SHSS08006) |
This course has been developed in association with EUSA's Disabled Students' Officer and in consultation with UG students from across the University to provide an opportunity for students to study disability from a social sciences perspective. This intersectional, critical, social science course focuses on advocacy and the lived experience of disabled people. This course SCQF Credits: 20 Level taken: 8 Year taken: UG2 |
Introduction to Disability Studies (SHSS10012) |
This course has been developed in association with EUSA's Disabled Students' Officer and in consultation with UG students from across the University to provide an opportunity for students to study disability from a social sciences perspective. This intersectional, critical, social science course focuses on advocacy and the lived experience of disabled people. SCQF Credits: 20 Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: UG3 |
Introduction to Queer Studies |
This course will provide undergraduate students with an introduction to the study of sexual identity and sexuality across a variety of disciplines, incorporating a wide array of historical and international perspectives. It will provide a grounding in key terms and debates, and explore the ways in which diverse fields of study explore and interrogate questions of queerness. The historical development of queer studies will be traced and challenged. |
Introduction to The Modern History of Sexuality |
Today, sex is at the tip of society's tongue. What really is this thing called 'sexuality' and how did it become such a ubiquitous social and political issue? This course offers a first introduction to the sexual past that seeks to answer this question with a focus on the modern West. It may be less suitable for students who already have a background in sexuality and gender studies. SCQF Credits: 20 Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: UG3
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Investigating Individual Learner Differences |
This course is appropriate for practising teachers and new teachers who are interested in language learning and teaching issues. The course examines a range of psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic differences found among learners considering them in the context of the second language classroom and the implication of these differences implications for language teaching pedagogy. |
Investigating Science in Society |
'Investigating Science in Society' considers the social nature of science and scientific knowledge, as well as the relationship between science and wider society. We begin by considering different ways that people have tried to make sense of science: through assumptions, by writing definitions and by carrying out studies of what scientists do. We move on to systematically explore important elements of scientific practice. We examine the inner workings of scientific observation, experimentation, teamwork, writing, replication and debate. |