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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Thomas Calvard |
Tom Calvard (he/him) is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management based in the Business School. He is also currently EDI Director for the School, and collaborates with various colleagues on various topics relating to equity, diversity and inclusion practices in workplace contexts. |
Three Minute Records: Case Studies in Popular Music |
In this course students will learn to apply theories and approaches relevant to popular music studies via in-depth study of particular artists, eras, genres and/or styles, etc. in popular music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will choose their own areas of research focus (artist, genre/style, development, etc.) and will learn to consider these topic(s) using relevant scholarship, theories, and approaches. |
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. |
Topics in Social Theory |
This course is intended to allow students to deepen their understanding of theoretical debates, issues and key thinkers, as well as helping them to develop a critical perspective on existing approaches. Students taking the course will both build up their skills as theorists and gain knowledge that will help them to understand and contribute to wider debates in sociology. The course is aimed at students interested in improving their understanding of theoretical approaches to the social world. |
TPG Cultural Turns |
This course engages with the re-evaluation of popular culture, a reconsideration of the meaning and scope of the 'aesthetic,' and an engagement with numerous other concerns outside the traditional domain of Critical Theory, such as geography, museology, cultural studies, design and visual culture, and gender studies. Central to the course is thus a tracking of the rise of discourses in response to the perceived inadequacy of Critical Theory in the face of contemporary society and culture. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate Not running in 2025/26 |
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. |