Steering committee

Affiliates leads

Connect to and help collaborate with affiliates and allied internal networks including: BAME network, Liberate.ED and EUSA, GENDER.ED, Edinburgh Race Equality Network, Womxn of Color and Gender Minority Network, Race and Inclusivity in Global Network (RIGEN) and UncoverED.

Dr Hemangini Gupta

Dr Hemangini Gupta is a Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics with interests in transnational feminisms, decolonial and postcolonial theory and feminist activism.

Dr Sarah Liu

Currently a Lecturer in Gender and Politics at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, Dr Sarah Liu’s research focuses on the cross-national…

Dr Emily Sena

Emily Sena is a neuroscientist, meta-research scientist and Stroke Association funded senior lecturer in the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences (CCBS).

Cross-discipline leads

Help support connectivity and inter-disciplinarity by identifying colleagues and activity that RACE.ED may collaborate with across the University.

Prof Rowena Arshad

Rowena’s research and teaching focusses on raising awareness of how racism operates at an institutional, cultural and individual level.

Prof Sharon Cowan

Sharon Cowan is a professor of feminist and queer legal studies at the university of Edinburgh.

Dr Mohini Gray

Mohini Gray is an honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, Immunologist and Reader at the Centre for Inflammation Research (CIR).

Daryl Green (FSA)

Daryl is the Head of Special Collections, which include rare books, photographs, manuscripts, personal papers, and the University archive.

Dr Marlies Kustatscher

Marlies Kustatscher’s research focuses on children and young people’s experiences of intersecting inequalities (race, class, gender, ethnicity, age); interdisciplinary, arts-based approaches to…

Dr Jingyi Li

Jingyi is a Senior Teaching Fellow and Programme Director for MSc Education (All Pathways) in the Moray House School of Education.

Dr rashné limki

Rashné is lecturer of Work and Organisation Studies. academic thinking and writing focuses mainly on the ethics and politics of work in a global context.

Dr Thabani Mutambasere

I am a Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the Centre of African Studies.

Dr Richard Oosterhoff

Richard Oosterhoff is a lecturer of early modern history, with a focus on intellectual and scientific cultures, based in the Department of History.

Teaching programmes leads

Lead the development of the 2020-2021 in practice race module and scale up to the large cross-university Understanding Race in Contemporary Society in 2021-2022.

Dr Shaira Vadasaria

Shaira Vadasaria is a Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies in the Department of Sociology.

RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellowship

The RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellowship, hosted by IASH and RACE.ED, is available to postdoctoral scholars working in any area of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dr Katucha Bento

Dr Katucha Bento is a Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Support, web and communications leads

Help maintain and update the web platform, and promote RACE.ED through social media communications channel internally and externally.

Gordon Coutts

Gordon is Head of Communications and Engagement in the School of Social and Political Science at The University of Edinburgh.

Claire Edminson

Claire is the Network Coordinator for RACE.ED, providing support behind the scenes with events, social media, communications, the Steering Committee and more.