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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| Name | Details |
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Topics in Popular Music |
Topics in Popular Music introduces various themes and theoretical frameworks with which to approach the study of popular music. With American popular music of the late 19th and 20th centuries acting as something of a case study, students will be encouraged to consider issues related to technology, genre, race, gender, capitalism, and colonialism. |
Transatlantic Disability Histories, c. 1700-1990 |
This course provides an introduction to the field of Disability History and will explore how cognitive and physical difference have been understood and constructed in Europe and the Americas from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. We will examine how disability intersected with systems of labour, care, race, gender, colonial power and transatlantic exchange, and how disabled people have navigated and resisted these structures. Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: Year 3 Undergraduate SCQF Credits: 20 |
Twenty-First Century Fiction |
This course introduces students to the major themes, crises and debates surrounding the contemporary novel, exploring how authors have responded to the cultural and technological challenges of living in the new century. These novels allow us to examine a number of key issues and crises that have shaped contemporary experience, including (but not limited to) the events of 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror'; technology and internet surveillance; globalisation and the financial crash; and late modernity, temporal dislocation and historical memory. |
Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World: Key Concepts, Controversies and Challenges |
How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? How is gender constructed in different contexts and what are the material consequences? How can gender analyses empower us to act as agents of personal and social change? This inter-disciplinary course provides an overview of the major issues at stake in the study of gender relations from a broadly social science perspective. It introduces students to gender studies as a theoretical field of investigation, examining key concepts and debates in the field. |
Understanding Race and Colonialism |
Why do ideas about race feature in social relations today? What structures of knowledge do ideas about racial difference rely upon? How do historical projects of race-making come to be refashioned in contemporary social life? This course engages with such questions by examining the provenance of race and its defining role in the formation of colonial modernity. It provides an overview of key theoretical approaches and methodological debates in the study of race, racism and colonial formations across various disciplines and intersecting sites of modern power. |
Understanding Technology |
Many of the students taking the MSc in Science and Technology in Society will have no prior training in the interdisciplinary field of science, technology and innovation studies. Focussing on different approaches to the social study of technology, this course introduces theoretical approaches, concepts and key empirical studies that form the canon and state-of-the-art in social research and critical thinking on technology. |
Unwritten Korea: Understanding Korean Society and Culture through Contemporary Arts and Films |
The course aims to familiarise students with Korean society and culture through an analysis of films, dramas, and music. The course is structured chronologically, beginning with films and dramas set in the Joseon era, colonial rule, the Korea war, authoritarian rule and social contention, and, lastly, the more contemporary period. The course topics include Korean society in history and under the colonial rules, inequality, urban culture, gender inequality, Korean Noirs (the dark side of societies), generational gaps, and multi-culturalism. |
Valeria Skafida |
Valeria Skafida is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. |
Vander Viana |
Dr Vander Viana (he/him) is Senior Lecturer in Language Education at the University of Edinburgh and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (formerly known as Higher Education Academy). He has extensive first-hand experience of language teacher education in UK higher education, having worked in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. He has wide international experience as well, having delivered guest lectures in several countries (e.g. |
Veronique Desnain |
Dr Véronique Desnain (she/her) holds a PhD from the University of Bristol and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Hidden Tragedies: the social construction of gender in Racine (2001) and co-editor of Culture and conflict in seventeenth-century France (2004) as well as journal articles and book chapters on 17th century French drama and French Crime Fiction. |