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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Nations and Nationalism (UG) |
The course aims to examine major modes of explaining nationalism, and to relate nationalism to other key themes in sociology. It begins by examining key concepts, theories and typologies of nationalism, with particular attention focused on the distinction among ethnic, civic and civil nationalisms. Thereafter the course seeks to explore the relationship between nationalism and other social and political processes, such as language, religion, class, gender, conflict regulation and globalization. |
Neerja Pathak |
Neerja Pathak is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. Her doctoral research is a study of the first name changing practices of women post marriage in West India. In studying this practice, she is engaging in the gender power relations entrenched in this practice as well as unravelling the intertwining of religion, rituals, caste, bureaucracy, identity and patriarchy. She is especially interested in the affective landscape of this practice for the people involved. |
Niamh Moore |
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Nicola Boydell |
Nicola is a THIS Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Usher Institute and Centre for Biomedicine Self and Society. Nicola’s work sits at the intersection of medical sociology, critical public health and healthcare improvement studies, and her current project is exploring how participatory approaches are used, and can be extended, within sexual and reproductive health care, with a particular focus on abortion care. To date, Nicola’s work has focused on exploring social and cultural dimensions of sexual and reproductive health and care. |
Nicola Frith |
Nicola Frith is a specialist in Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Slavery Studies. She is the author of a monograph entitled The French Colonial Imagination: Writing the Indian Uprisings, 1857–58, from Second Empire to Third Republic (Lexington Books, 2014), which considers how France’s colonial imagination in the nineteenth century was constructed in relation to its greatest rival, the British. In recent years, her research has turned towards more contemporary themes and now focuses on the memories and legacies of slavery and their effects on French society today. |
Nuria Lopez Vazquez |
Nuria is a writer and a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. Her current work "soil care, home gardens and monoculture" is a feminist political ecology narrative of agriculture in Myanmar. She examines the interwoven realities of inequality, neocolonialism, and environmental pollution in the Shan mountains of Myanmar calling for agricultural development to transform into a food justice approach that could address Myanmar’s history of ethnic oppression and military power over the land. |
One Pusumane |
One Pusumane is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. |
Pablo Schyfter |
Pablo Schyfter (he/him) has carried out different kinds of teaching and research in science and technology studies (STS), including feminist STS. He has investigated the masculinisation of engineering practices, people and artefacts, and has developed theoretical frameworks for the study of gender and technology. |
Patricia Allmer |
My research and curatorial projects focus on women artists and writers in relation to Surrealism and its legacies. |
Patricia Jeffrey |
Patricia is an emerita Professor of Sociology. She studied undergraduate Social Anthropology at Cambridge, masters in Sociology (on race relations) at Nottingham, and doctoral work at Bristol (for work on Pakistani heritage families in Bristol); taught in Edinburgh between 1972 and 2005, briefly in Social Anthropology and since after 1978 in Sociology, with main teaching in the fields of gender, gender and development, development studies and South Asian Studies. She has acted as peer reviewer for a wide range of journals and book publishers. |