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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Sport, Media and Society |
This Honours level optional course provides an analysis of the mass media in industrial and industrialising societies, and considers the position of sport in the print, broadcast and electronic media from sociological, comparative and historical perspectives. Different approaches to the study of the mass media in society and the process by which media messages are produced, distributed and interpreted are critically assessed. |
Stephen Walker |
Stephen Walker is Professor of Accounting in the Edinburgh Business School. |
Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing (Postgraduate) |
The course will use the figure of the stranger to introduce students to a range of post-war writing from the 1950s to the present. The stranger here takes many forms: ambivalent tricksters, aspiring immigrants, invading armies, or an unhiemlich sense of ‘strangeness within’ as a constituent factor in the creation of identity. The course will include prose, poetry and drama that explore the social and political trends and upheavals of the period, from the Windrush Generation of the 1950s to the digital age. |
Studies of Popular Music |
To facilitate contextualisation, the course will adopt a case-study approach using various artists, trends, or approaches as a lens through which to examine and apply various theoretical approaches key to the study of popular music. Particular topics, themes, and approaches may vary from year to year. While not a history course per se, the course is concerned with ensuring that students understand and can extrapolate from some of the key historical developments in popular music. |
Sue Widdicombe |
My research has dealt with the topics of self and identities. Identity is recognised as important throughout the human sciences, and there are many different perspectives on the nature of identity. What characterises my approach is a concern to study how individuals ‘do’ identity, that is, how they construct and mobilise particular identities in interaction with others and with what effects (interpersonal, social, ideological). Related to this is an interest in interaction, discursive psychology and conversation analysis. |
Susan Bainbrigge |
Dr Susan Bainbrigge is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures’ Department of European Languages and Cultures.
Susan’s research interests include:
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Suvi Lensu |
Suvi Lensu is a PhD candidate in African Studies and Social Anthropology and simultaneously part of the ANTHUSIA research project. By drawing from feminist anthropologist methods, she examines the feminisation of the informal economy in the East African borderlands. |
Suzanne Trill |
Suzanne’s early research focused on Tudor and Jacobean English women’s devotional poetry, specifically Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke and Aemilia Lanyer. After finding a manuscript by Anna Walker in the British Library which was presented to Anna of Denmark (in a form which follows the generic conventions of a sermon), she was inspired to apply for a Leverhulme research fellowship in order to establish a preliminary checklist of manuscripts by women (c. |
Talia Shoval |
Talia Shoval (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Politics (Political Theory) at the School of Social and Political Science. Her PhD, titled ‘The Nature of War: Incorporating Environmental Ethics in the Ethics of War’, focuses on the interplay between environmental ethics and the ethics of war. |
Thalia Thereza Assan |
Thalia Thereza Assan (she/her) is a Sociology PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. Her PhD project examines the significance of friendship in the political lives of Black girls and girls of colour in Scotland. It is based on a multi-method approach that consisted of participant observations, creative methods (such as mapping, photovoice and writing) and in-depth semi-structured interviews. |