Former members
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Dr Radhika Govinda
Role
Dr Radhika Govinda is a former Director of GENDER.ED (2023 - 2025).Dr Radhika Govinda is a former Director of GENDER.ED (2023 - 2025).
James Bell
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.’
Sheher Bano
Clara Calvert
Role
Dr Clara Calvert is Chancellor’s Fellow in Global Challenges at the Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, within the Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences.Mouna Chatt
Hope Conway-Gebbie
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.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.
Harriet Cornell
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.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.
Rhea Gandhi
Role
Rhea Gandhi is GENDER.ED’s PhD Communications and Editorial Assistant.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.
Agomoni Ganguli Mitra
Lauren Hood
Amy Life
Role
Amy Life is one of GENDER.ED’s Undergraduate Communications and Events Interns.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.
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.
Fiona Mackay
Role
Professor Fiona Mackay is the Founding Director of GENDER.ED. She is a feminist political scientist and is the Acting Head of the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.Fiona’s research focuses on the impact of gender reform efforts during periods of restructuring and institutional change, addressing the extent to which global and local institutions of politics and governance may be designed or reformed to address gender inequality and promote gender justice.
Jacqueline McMahon
Role
Jacqueline McMahon is a Senior Research Support Specialist at the Growing Research Together (GRT) Programme.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.
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.
Tulsa Miqdhaadh Moosa
Role
Tulsa Miqdhaadh Moosa is the 2023-2024 President for Girl*Up and third-year MA International Relations and International Law Student at The University of Edinburgh.She is passionate about advocating for gender equality and intersectional feminism.
Sarah Prescott
Role
Professor Sarah Prescott is a professor of English literature, as well as the Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences as well as the chair of the IASH advisory board.
Syjil Ramjuthan
Role
Syjil Ramjuthan is the 2024-2025 EUSA Women’s Liberation Officer.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.
