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
Queens, Heiresses and Lords: Women Making Medieval Scotland	Elite women played important roles within the Scottish political community and on a wider, European stage, even if narratives of the 'making of' medieval Scotland have tended to foreground male actors. Throughout this course, students will carefully assess women's involvement in politics and aristocratic culture between c.1066 and c.1328, examining figures such as queen consorts, royal mothers and daughters, countesses and noblewomen. The course will be structured around weekly seminars which explore different arenas of royal and aristocratic life.
Queer Geographies: Spatialising Sexuality and Gender	Spatialising Sexuality and Gender: Queer and Trans Geographies¿ provides an opportunity for students to critically, and self-reflexively, consider how sexuality and gender inform, and unfold in, the everyday spaces we inhabit.
Queering Health and Social Sciences: LGBTQIA+ Perspectives	This course will introduce students to key theoretical, philosophical, and historical perspectives, issues and debates on queerness. At the heart of this programme is the view that emphasises a multiplicity of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and + (LGBTQIA+) experiences that are grounded within specific political and ideological contexts. The course uses a decolonial optic that challenges dominant Western centrism within queer studies.
Rachel Chung	In the past, Rachel has studied queer sexuality in Gothic literature and fanfiction and narratives of suicidality in performance. She has also conducted research in medicine, including: the experiences of women with cerebral palsy seeking gynecological care pain management practices in sub-acute hospital units depression rates in young women studying for the Collegiate Scholastic Ability Test in South Korea iso-volumetric contraction and relaxation times in the left ventricle. Rachel studies sexual violence in Shakespeare as performed by
Rachel Dutaud	Biography Rachel Dutaud (she/they) is a PhD candidate examining queer and feminist community archives from the 1970s to today. They are analyzing the futures that queer and feminist archives are created to shape and the collecting practices, spaces, and networks through which these futures are pursued.
Radhika Govinda	Radhika (she/her) is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and a former Director of GENDER.ED (2023-2025), the University's interdisciplinary hub for gender and sexualities studies. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, she held a Lectureship in Gender Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi, India. At Edinburgh, she is the Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for her School, and an active member of the Centre for South Asian Studies.
Rae Rosenberg	Rae Rosenberg is a Lecturer in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a Ph.D. in Critical Human Geography from York University and his work explores the contestations of living, and forms of resistance and belonging, amongst multiply-marginalized LGBTQ2+ people.
Rama Salla Dieng	Rama (she/her) is a Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the University of Edinburgh since January 2019 and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. I have worked with several African development organisations before joining academia.
Rania Hamad	Rania Hamad (she/her) is currently in the second year of a part-time PhD in Social Work, undertaking qualitative research to explore the causes and motivations of hate crime via the perspectives of people who commit hate crime.
Rashné Limki	Dr Rashné Limki (she/her) is a Lecturer in Work and Organisation Studies at the Business School. She is co-convenor of the Edinburgh Race Equality Network, Migrant Officer of the Edinburgh University and College Union, and a board member of Shakti Women's Aid. Her academic thinking and writing focuses mainly on the ethics and politics of work in a global context.

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