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
Louise Milne	contemporary art and aesthetics mythology folk tales popular culture psychoanalytic theory anthropology feminism and gender theory visual narrative avant-garde and experimental film & video popular film & video children's literature photography documentary film illustration visual culture and memory oral culture & history sound art and design
Love in Religious and Philosophical Literature	This course explores diverse understandings of love across different religious and philosophical traditions. We will discuss religious and philosophical approaches to the question of love, including how we understand the nature of love, how we can talk of love, how love relates to religious goals, how reason relates to emotion, how love is embodied and connected to gender and sexuality, and how notions of love vary across different global contexts. Year taken: Year 3 Undergraduate SCQF Credits: 20 Not running in 2026/27
Lucia Cervi	Dr Lucia Cervi is lecturer in Organisation Studies at The University of Edinburgh Business School, with a background in political science, human rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility. She is broadly interested in the social aspect of sustainability, from a critical and qualitative perspective. Her research focuses on the ethical implications of digitalisation, the digital and social vulnerabilities emerging from FinTech, and the socio-political implications of technology-driven practices.
Lucy Lowe	Feminism gender Reproductive Health Somalia Migration and Displacement Refugee studies Motherhood Reproductive Justice Diaspora and transnationalism Gender and Health Kenya sexuality
Lucy Weir	Lucy Weir (she/her) is Chancellor’s Fellow in History of Art. She specialises in performance, from dance to live art. She is particularly interested in the relationships between gender, sexuality, and the body, analysing the ways in which performance – across a broad spectrum of forms – holds up a mirror to contemporary society. Lucy’s research interests include: Performance - dance, live art, theatre Feminist and queer theory 'Outsider' art Soviet visual culture
Lynn Jamieson	Families personal life European identity Social change oral history Globalizationsation and personal life gender Environment intimacy Transgender transnational families care chains friendship Cosmopolitanism Memory identity gender based violence
M. Angélica Thumala Olave	Dr M. Angélica Thumala Olave is a Lecturer in Global Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science. She is the Programme Co-Director of the MSc Sociology and Global Change. Angélica is a cultural sociologist whose research interests include: Religion Consumption The self and identity formation Society and culture in Latin America Gender and development The sociology of reading and books Her recent research outputs include: Thumala Olave, M. A. (2021).
Magnus Course	Britain Ethnography Mythology and folklore Memory Language and Identity Gaelic Scotland crofting Environment fishing the sea
Making Men: The History of British Masculinity, c. 1700-1900	This course examines the history of masculinity in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Students will be introduced to key concepts and debates within the history of masculinity and gender and will consider how different sources and approaches have led historians to draw very different conclusions about the nature of British masculinity in different periods. By exploring two of these periods together, this course will identify the changes and continuities in how masculinity was idealised, critiqued, formed and experienced in Britain.
Marion Boulicault (She/They)	Marion Boulicault is a Lecturer in Feminist Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and also serves as the Director of Interdisciplinary Research and Community at the Harvard GenderSci Lab. She has a PhD in Philosophy from MIT and completed an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge.

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Lucy’s research interests include: