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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Shiyu Gao |
Shiyu GAO is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. She is Research Assistant to Dr Chia-Ling Yang, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art. |
Shruti Chaudhry |
Shruti Chaudhry (she/her) is a Chancellor’s Fellow in sociology. Her current research focuses on the family and intimate life of minority ethnic ageing adults in Scotland. |
Simon Malpas |
Simon (he/him) works in English Literature in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, teaching the following courses: The Body in Literature (3MA), Sex, Seduction and Sedition in Restoration Literature (4MA/MSc), Reading Science Fiction (3MA) and Contemporary Science Fiction (4MA/MSc).
Key research interests include:
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Siobhán Fergus Evans |
Biography |
Siobhan Magee |
Siobhan Magee is Lecturer in Social Anthropology. She has carried out ethnographic research in Poland, the UK, and the US. Most of her work focuses on kinship and relatedness, and the politics and histories inherent to these areas. The current focus of her research is marriage in the US. |
Slavery in the Early Middle Ages |
By c.1100 slavery, which had once been a fundamental structure of the Roman empire, had been displaced across much of Europe by a distinct subjugated status known as serfdom - for reasons much debated by historians. Yet simultaneously other forms of slavery evolved and diversified, including human trafficking along trade routes connecting Christian, 'pagan' and Islamic societies. |
Social and Cultural Geography |
Social and Cultural Geography considers why geography matters to the analysis and understanding of social relations as well as cultural identities and values. The course will explore a number of key themes which are central to the practice of contemporary social and cultural geography, including inequality and difference, society, nature, and landscape, space and consumption, and mobility. |
Social Determinants of Health and Public Policy (Postgraduate) |
Inequalities in health are observable among groups of the population whether categorised by class, occupation, income, gender or ethnicity and reflect persistent social and economic deprivation. Theories of social stratification provide explanations of patterned and persistent inequalities. This course will provide an introduction to concepts and theories of social stratification and to the evaluation from a public health perspective of public policies that address social inequalities. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate |
Social Determinants of Health and Public Policy (Undergraduate) |
The course aims to examine the social determinants of health and health inequalities and to evaluate appropriate public policy responses. The course explores in detail current theories explaining the development and persistence of inequalities in health. In particular it will encourage students to examine theories focusing on behavioural/cultural, psycho-social, structural/materialist, and life course explanations of health inequalities. |
Social Epistemology (Online) |
The course will cover the following topics: Epistemology of testimony: What is the epistemic status of belief generated by accepting testimony? Under what conditions is testimonial knowledge defeated? How does the epistemology of testimony relate to classical epistemological discussions such as the internalism-externalism debate? Epistemology of disagreement and diversity: |