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.

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
Katharine Swarbrick	Katharine Swarbrick began her research career by writing on Lacanian perspectives on the psychopathology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, about which she is currently completing a monograph. Her exploration into interrelations between psychoanalytic theory and aspects of Enlightenment has extended into the life and works of Jean-François Marmontel and, more recently, Voltaire. She also works on interdisciplinary topics including the relations between avant-garde and neo-avant-garde productions and the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Lacan, Zizek.
Katie Hirono	Global Public Health Unit. Health equity health impact assessment evidence-informed policymaking human rights
Katucha Bento	Dr Katucha Bento is Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies in the Dept of Sociology and the Associate Director of RACE.ED Network. Her work is grounded in Black Feminisms (Latinx, Caribbean, African, US, and UK) situating Critical Race Studies and Decoloniality as she navigates topics around affect economy, diaspora, womanhood, Blackness and community building.
Kaveri Qureshi	Dr Kaveri Qureshi is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED, a Senior Lecturer in Global Health Equity at the School of Social and Political Science, and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships. She has an interdisciplinary background in sociology, anthropology and public health. She is on the Editorial Collective of Medicine, Anthropology, Theory. She also writes reviews for a variety of journals.
Kelly Blacklock	Kelly (she/her) is a senior lecturer in Small Animal Surgery at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, where she is involved in the clinical service, teaching, and research into the genetic basic and functional aspects of canine cancers. She is a Research Fellow at the Patton Lab in the Institute of Genetics and Cancer, where she studies metastasis of canine oral melanoma. Kelly is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a mentor of other staff on the Edinburgh Teaching Award.
Key Concepts in Global Social Change	This course introduces students to key sociological concepts, their analytic utility, and their relevance for understanding and explaining major issues in global social change. It aims to define and interrogate fundamental concepts in sociology, while also illustrating these through timely and topical social issues of global scope in the news. While it addresses globalization, it puts this in historical perspective, and relates it to enduring ideas in sociological analysis.
Keywords in South Asian Public Culture	This course aims to provide students with a solid understanding of important contemporary debates in the study of South Asian public culture. Introducing key themes through critical and current ethnographic work, this course focuses on the tangible public forms that global cultural flows, political economies and social formations take. This emphasis on contemporary public culture allows a concrete consideration of abstract and changing social and cultural forces that define the region.
Kinship: Structure and Process (Postgraduate)	This course examines some of the ways in which people in different societies conceptualise and live out relatedness. It shows how notions about relatedness are linked to notions about gender, theories of procreation (which are themselves changing under the impact of New Reproductive Technologies), and ideas about bodily substance, as well as having emotional, economic, and political salience. Kinship has long been regarded as the core of the anthropological discipline, although the extent to which this is still the case is questionable.
Kinship: Structure and Process (Undergraduate)	This course examines some of the ways in which people in different societies conceptualise and live out kinship and relatedness. It shows how notions of relatedness are linked to ideas about gender, theories of procreation (which are themselves changing under the impact of assisted reproductive technologies), and understandings of bodily substance, as well as having profound emotional, economic, political and religious salience.
Kirsty Day	Biography

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