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.
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Peter Davies |
Professor Davies' research specialisms include:
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Philippa Saunders |
I am a biomedical scientist who has spent more than 30 years investigating the mechanisms that are responsible for the impact of sex steroids (androgens and oestrogens) on reproductive and other tissue systems. |
Political Emotions |
This political theory module introduces students to key philosophical debates about the role of emotions in social life. It problematises dominant views that oppose emotion to reason and offers more complex analyses of how emotions move individuals and groups to act and position themselves politically. The module starts by outlining the main approaches to the study of emotions. It then moves on to debates about rationalism in politics and social science. |
Political Philosophy |
This course covers issues and questions in historical and / or contemporary political philosophy. Political philosophy examines normative issues connected to (1) the relations between states and (2) the relations between states and those subject to their rule. |
Politics and Theories of International Development |
Development has been primarily concerned with the economic transformation of countries considered to be less advanced than others. International development as we now know it emerged in the post-World War Two era, drawing on economic development theories from the 18th century onwards. Over time, however, international development has taken on new dimensions, encompassing social and political, as well as economic, transformation. Development is a profoundly political process, shaped by and shaping social actors and political institutions at local, national, regional and global levels. |
Postcolonial African Literature in Portuguese |
This course will introduce major topics in Lusophone African Literature and Culture from the colonial period (still under Portuguese rule) until Cape Verde, Angola and Mozambiqueżs independence between 1974 and 1975. A wide-ranging selection of novels and short stories will be studied in the context of historical and political events. Particular attention will be paid to the following themes: nation-building, colonialism and post-colonialism; race and regionalism; gender and sexuality; revolution and ideology. |
Postcolonial Writing |
This course will introduce students to some of the key texts and critical debates within postcolonial studies, ranging from the colonial fiction of E.M. Forster and Rudyard Kipling to contemporary novels (from Africa, South Asia, and the U.S.); the dub poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson; and the British-Asian television comedy series Goodness Gracious Me. Primary texts will be explored with reference to a range of key terms and topics including (inter alia) orientalism, counter-discourse, mimicry, nationalism, ethnicity and subjectivity, diaspora, language, the body. |
Premodern Textiles in Europe |
This course investigates textile as a medium in the premodern period. The first half of the course is devoted to materials and techniques. All phases of textile production from the cultivation and exchange of raw materials to the spinning and use of threads in weaving and embroidery will be studied. Special attention will be paid to the communities and networks that grew up around textile making and trade. The latter half of the course is given over to examination of specific case studies. |
Print and Gender Rebellion in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800 |
The first age of mass media, created by the printing press, led to a revolution in how gender was seen, portrayed, and understood in the early modern world. This course will examine people in early modern Europe who refused to conform to gender norms side-by-side with the media they created and that created them in return. It will show how their gender rebellion was enabled by the material realities of the formation and distribution of print. Year taken: Year 3 Undergraduate SCQF Credits: 20 |
Professional Development (MBA) |
This skills development based course is designed to help full-time MBA participants enhance their leadership capability and professional competence as well as their potential to develop strong employability skills and successfully pitch for senior executive roles in a range of organisations. |