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Amy Life

Amy Life is a fourth year French and Philosophy student at the school of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.

She is passionate about ending all forms of Gender Based Violence and has a strong interest in promoting equality within her local communities. Amy is particularily interested in the links between epistemic injustice and the way marginalised identities are perceived when fighting for justice in both individual and group settings.

Role

Amy Life is one of GENDER.ED’s Undergraduate Communications and Events Interns.
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Amy Life

Rhea Gandhi

Rhea Gandhi is a psychotherapist, group therapist and liberation-oriented educator and researcher. She is doing her PhD in Counselling Studies and broadly exploring decolonial approaches to counselling training.

Role

Rhea Gandhi is GENDER.ED’s PhD Communications and Editorial Assistant.
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Dr Rebecca Hewer

She is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED, and is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Sociology, School of Social and Political Sciences. 

Her research explores the socio-legal regulation of (primarily) women’s bodies, the politics of knowledge production, and feminist utopian thinking. She is particularly interested in reproductive and sexual governance and justice, and prefigurative policy reform. Rebecca convenes the Gender and Sexualities Reading Group.

Role

Dr Rebecca Hewer is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED.
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Dr Zubin Mistry

Zubin Mistry

Zubin was the interim Associate Director for Semester 1 of 2025/26, whilst Wannes Dupont was on research leave.

Dr Zubin Mistry is a Lecturer in Early Medieval European History. He is a historian of early medieval Europe between 500 and 1000 whose work focuses in particular on reproduction.

His research uses topics like abortion and infertility to think about religious beliefs, legal regimes, political culture and medical practice.

Dr Meryl Kenny

Meryl Kenny

Role

Dr Meryl Kenny is GENDER.ED's Education Advisor.

Meryl is a Professor in Gender and Politics and Co-Director of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network.

She is a member of the Steering Group, and is the Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Project Lead and the Co-Convener of ‘Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World.’

Dr Rosalind Cavaghan

Dr Rosalind Cavaghan is GENDER.ED's go-to partner for internal and external consultancy projects. A PhD graduate of Edinburgh, Rosalind is a research-active consultant with over 15 years experience conducting team and solo consultancy projects.

Role

Dr Rosalind Cavaghan is GENDER.ED’s Consultancy Partner.
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Patricia Erskine

Patricia is Head of Stakeholder Relations & Policy Officer for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

She is a member of the Steering Group.

Role

Dr Patricia Erskine is GENDER.ED’s Stakeholder Relations Advisor.
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