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.

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.

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.

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.