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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

She is a Professor Emerita in Politics and International Relations at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. A feminist political scientist, her research focuses on the impact of gender reform efforts during periods of restructuring and institutional change. Fiona remains a lead on GENDER.ED research and knowledge exchange and impact projects such as a forthcoming book with Leuven University Press, anthologising the 16 Days Blogathon that GENDER.ED delivered annually for a number of years in collaboration with Ambedkar University Delhi and the University of New South Wales Sydney; and various feminist academic archiving projects.

Dr Radhika Govinda is a former Director of GENDER.ED (2023 - 2025).

Radhika’s research bridges the fields of sociology of gender, international development and South Asian Studies. Her work sheds light on the importance of understanding gender politics at the intersections of caste, class, race/ethnicity and religion in women’s and social movements, in development policies and practice, in everyday social relations, and in the global dynamics of knowledge production. She was the Principal Investigator of the recently concluded international project, Teaching Feminisms, Transforming Lives: Questions of Identity, Pedagogy and Violence in India and the UK.