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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Sally Brown |
Sally Brown is currently Programme Director for the MA Health in Social Science, having joined Edinburgh University in 2020. She is a medical sociologist and health services researcher with an interest in the health and wellbeing of young people, particularly around sexual health services and sex education. She is involved in IReSH, the Interdisciplinary Research in Sexual Health network in Scotland having previously been co-chair, and she is currently a member of the editorial team for Sociology of Health and Illness. |
Sam Staddon |
Sam is a feminist political ecologist committed to environmental and social justice, working in Nepal and Scotland. Her research explores the social relations, power and politics involved in conservation, forestry and other environment and development interventions. She is particularly interested in the ways in which intersectional subjectivities, including along lines of gender, ethnicity and class, shape both the design and delivery of community-based approaches to natural resource management, and the social justice outcomes of such initiatives. |
Sambhavi Ganesh |
Sambhavi Ganesh is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. With the contention that 'Brahmin' is a male category, her doctoral project seeks to understand the construction and performance of Brahmin womanhood in the context of their recent advances in access to public life. |
Sangwon Park |
I'm currently in the final year of my PhD. My dissertation explores the role of girls' education in promoting gender equality in post-genocide Rwanda, taking Amartya Sen's capability approach as an analytical tool in assessing the ways in which girls' education reshapes gender roles and relations in the public and private spheres. |
Sara Atwood |
Biography I am a first-year PhD by Distance student currently living in Osaka, Japan. My research focuses on women’s religious practices in early modern Japan, primarily Edo period (1603-1868) pilgrimage to Mount Kōya and nearby temples known as nyonin Kōya (Women's Kōya), and the visual and material culture associated with this theme. |
Sarah Childs |
Sarah (she/her) joined the University of Edinburgh in May 2022, following a long period at the University of Bristol, and shorter spells at Birkbeck and Royal Holloway, University of London. With a degree in Politics from Sussex University, and a Master's in Women's Studies from York, Sarah studied for her PhD part-time, taking 7 years to complete her thesis. Sarah Childs joined the University of Edinburgh in May 2022. Her research centres on the theory and practice of women's political representation, gender and political parties, parliaments and institutional change. |
Sarah Cunningham-Burley |
Her research interests span medical and family sociology and include the social aspects of genetics and stem cell research, as well as research on families, health and illness across the lifecourse. Sarah's particular focus is on lay perspectives, understandings and experience, as well as on lay/professional relationships particularly in relation to public involvement and engagement in science and medicine. |
Sarah Dunnigan |
Sarah's (she/her) main research interests lie in medieval and Renaissance literature, especially Scottish, and in particular with the literature and culture of Mary, Queen of Scots' reign; in fairy tales, traditional literature, and ballads; Scottish women's writing; and the history of Scottish children's literature. She co-edited, with Shu-Fang Lai, The Land of Story Books. |
Sarah Goldsmith |
Dr Sarah Goldsmith is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Lecturer in Urban and Material Culture History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
Sarah’s research interests include:
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Sarah Parry |
Dr Sarah Parry (she/her) is Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Sciences. She is the Director for Sus+ The Edinburgh Network of Social Scientists for Sustainability; Partner on The Ocean Incubator Network; and co-lead (with Dr Faye Wade) of Sustainability in Households for the Scottish Research Alliance for Energy, Homes and Livelihoods. Her recent research interests have focussed on relations between gender, environment and sustainability in affluent countries. |