Syjil is a fourth year undergraduate student of Social Policy with Quantitative methods, and has been the President of the University of Edinburgh Feminist Society during the 2023-2024 academic year. She continues to prioritise making improvements to the sexual violence redressal system at the University of Edinburgh, improving the experiences of transgender students, and advocating for positive intersectional changes for students.

Her background is in Art History and Visual Cultural Studies, and their present research interests concern (post-)phenomenology, horror, and the non-human turn in new media.

Rae holds a Ph.D. in Critical Human Geography from York University and his work explores the contestations of living, and forms of resistance and belonging, amongst multiply-marginalized LGBTQ+ people.

She is interested in film’s engagement with religion and spirituality, representations and constructions of gender in visual culture, the Iranian performing arts and religion, contemporary expressions of Islam in art and material culture, and Persian literature.

She is passionate about advocating for gender equality and intersectional feminism.

She plays a leading role in the design and delivery of work packages/projects which are a priority for creating GRT’s future research support services; specifically, those that reduce risk to the university and create opportunity, as well as supporting research support professionals.

Lesley’s research interests lie in the general areas of the sociology of punishment and the sociology of law and deviance. Particular interests include: youth crime and juvenile justice; gender justice and community well-being; the politics of crime control; and comparative criminal justice. She is Co-Director (with Susan McVie) of theEdinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, and directs the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Ewan has helped build the award-winning map of Scottish witch trials – the Scottish Accused Witches project – using WikiData.