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Kaveri Qureshi

Dr Kaveri Qureshi is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED and a Senior Lecturer at the Global Health Policy Unit, which lies within Social Policy at the School of Social and Political Science.  

She works on intersectional inequalities in health, work and family life, and on the relationships between health and family. She also leads lines of inquiry around intersectional inequalities and coloniality within wider collaborative projects. She is the author/editor of more than ten books or journal special issues, including two monographs: Marital breakdown among British Asians (2016), and Chronic illness in a Pakistani labour diaspora (2019)..

Role

Dr Kaveri Qureshi is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED.
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Kaveri Qureshi

Dr Kaveri Qureshi is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED and a Senior Lecturer at the Global Health Policy Unit, which lies within Social Policy at the School of Social and Political Science.  

She works on intersectional inequalities in health, work and family life, and on the relationships between health and family. She also leads lines of inquiry around intersectional inequalities and coloniality within wider collaborative projects. She is the author/editor of more than ten books or journal special issues, including two monographs: Marital breakdown among British Asians (2016), and Chronic illness in a Pakistani labour diaspora (2019).

Role

Co-Director of GENDER.ED.
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Mouna Chatt

Mouna is a 4th year undergraduate student in Sociology and Politics. 

She is interested in postcolonial feminist theory and the intersection between gendered anti-Muslim racism and public housing policies in the Nordics. 

Role

Mouna Chatt is GENDER.ED's Undergraduate Communications and Events Intern
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James Bell

Dr James Bell (he/him) is an artist and researcher specialising in queer and trans art, activism, culture, and social histories.

James has a background in education and production in artist-led and contemporary arts organisations. He has working knowledge of and interests in arts education, exhibition making, access and equities, social justice, and social practice in contemporary art. 


 

Role

Dr James Bell is an Associate Director of GENDER.ED.
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Claire Edminson

Claire provides administrative support to the GENDER.ED core team, with a focus on event organisation and communication facilitation.

Role

Claire Edminson is GENDER.ED’s Network Coordinator.
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Hatice Yıldız

Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, economic and social histories of South Asia and the Middle East.

Role

Dr Hatice Yıldız is a Lecturer in Modern Gender History since 1750 at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. She is affiliated with both the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History and the Edinburgh Centre for Global History.
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Sam Maccallum

Role

As VP Education, Sam is responsible for representing students on issues of learning and teaching, from assessment and feedback, to lecture recording, and ensuring students have the opportunity to shape their academic experience at Edinburgh.
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Harriet Cornell

Harriet’s interest in gender, sexuality and justice stems from her research on power, authority, law and the State in early modern Scotland, including the implications of ‘Statecraft’ for the lives of ordinary people.

Role

Dr Harriet Cornell is the Political Settlements Research Programme Manager and a Carnegie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of History, Classics, and Archeology.
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Harriet Cornell

Hope Conway-Gebbie

Her interest in gender issues also informs her academics, and she is currently writing a dissertation on the construction and evolution of dominant societal beauty standards for women.

Role

Hope is the Women’s Liberation Officer for the Edinburgh University Students Association and is in her fourth year of an MA Sociology and Politics Degree.
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Laura Wise

Laura’s research explores the margins of peace processes and conflict-affected societies and their intersections with the politics of inclusion. She is particularly interested in local peace processes, ethnopolitics, and women, peace and security.

Role

Laura Wise is a Research Fellow and Programme Coordinator with the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep).
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