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Dr Rebecca Hewer is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED.
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.
Rebecca Hewer's University Profile
Dr Kaveri Qureshi is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED.
Dr Kaveri Qureshi is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED and a Senior Lecturer at the Global Health Policy Unit, which lies within Social Policy at the School of Social and Political Science.
She works on intersectional inequalities in health, work and family life, and on the relationships between health and family. She also leads lines of inquiry around intersectional inequalities and coloniality within wider collaborative projects. She is the author/editor of more than ten books or journal special issues, including two monographs: Marital breakdown among British Asians (2016), and Chronic illness in a Pakistani labour diaspora (2019)..
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Dr Wannes Dupont is an Associate Director of GENDER.ED.
Dr Wannes Dupont is an Associate Director of GENDER.ED.
Wannes is a Lecturer in the History of Sexuality at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
He previously taught at Yale-NUS College (Singapore), Utrecht University (Netherlands), and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). His work, publications, and teaching primarily concern the European and global history of sexuality, and the intersections of biopolitics and religion.
Wannes Dupont's University profile pageAdvisors & Leads
Dr Rosalind Cavaghan is GENDER.ED’s Consultancy Partner.
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. Her recent consultancy projects include strategic gender mainstreaming advice and training for the Natural Resource Governance Institute, gender training for the University of Jena Germany, gender training for the Scottish Government's Economy Directorate and building a sustainability mainstreaming tool for Scotland Beyond Net Zero. She has also delivered gender training sessions for the Edinburgh Earth Institute and designed GENDER.ED's toolkit for gender sensitive research. She is particularly skilled in partnering with organisations and professionals who are 'new' to gender-sensitive approaches.
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Professor Fiona Mackay was the founding Director of GENDER.ED (2017-2022).
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.
Fiona Mackay’s University profile page
Dr Patricia Erskine is GENDER.ED’s Stakeholder Relations Advisor.
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.
Patricia Erskine’s University profile pageNetwork Coordinator
Claire Edminson is GENDER.ED’s Network Coordinator.
Claire provides administrative support to the GENDER.ED core team, with a focus on event organisation and communication facilitation.