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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Maisie Jenkins |
Biography Maisie is a PhD candidate in the School of Health in Social Sciences. She is currently undertaking a part-time, distance PhD focussed on self-harm in men. Alongside this, she works part-time in lived experience involvement at the Wellcome Trust. Research Interests Men/Masculinities, self-harm and suicide, recovery, critical mental health |
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. |
Mariya Levitanus |
Mariya (she/her) is a scholar, queer activist, and psychotherapist trained within the dialogue between the person-centred approach and psychodynamic perspectives. She received her Doctorate in Psychotherapy from the University of Edinburgh in 2020. Her thesis is entitled “Regulation and Negotiation of Queer Subjectivities in post-Soviet Kazakhstan”. Previous and upcoming publications have focused on the role Soviet discourses in the narratives of queer people in Kazakhstan, queer emigration and queer activism in Kazakhstan and Russia. |
Marlies Kustatscher |
Marlies Kustatscher (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the Moray House School of Education and Sport. |
Marta Bernal Valencia |
Dr Marta Bernal Valencia is a Lecturer in Business Education at the Business School. She teaches in a wide range of courses related to interdisciplinary thinking, research methods and entrepreneurship. She studied Psychology and holds an Executive MBA and a PhD in Management, the latter of which looked at the socio-emotional features of Edinburgh's publishing industry and how emotions influence the flow of knowledge and resources. Her research focuses on emotions and the role they play in collaborative relations. |
Marta Kowalewska |
My current research focuses on the invisibility of Roma women in feminism and nationalism studies.
My research interests include:
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Martyrdom, Monasticism and Mysticism: Women Writers of the Early and Medieval Church |
This course enables students to engage in depth with women writers in the Christian tradition from the years 200-1440 in their historical and theological contexts. Ten writers will be studied, from Perpetua of Carthage to Margery Kempe, covering the period from the Roman Empire to the Byzantine Empire to Late Medieval Western Europe. |
Mary Holmes |
Professor Mary Holmes is Professor of Emotions and Society at the School of Social and Political Science. She joined the sociology subject area at Edinburgh in 2013.
As well as the sociology of emotions, Mary’s research interests include:
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Maryam Al-Hajri |
Maryam AlHajri is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science. Her thesis is concerned with the systematic marginalisation and erasure of histories of different socio-political actors in Qatar (1950-60s). Her research interests include the formation of post-colonial states and theories of political sociology, marginality and subalternity, particularly in the context of the Arab Gulf States. |