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Meet our Experts

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Name	Subject	Research Interests
Prof Lynaa Brams	History	Professor Brams is primarily an historian of gender and gender relations from the late 18^th century to the present in Britain (including Scotland) and Europe.
Dr Ana Cannilla She/her	Law	Dr Cannilla’s research is focused on feminist legal theory, constitutional law and jurisprudence.
Dr Tanya Cheadle She/her	History	Dr Cheadle is an historian of modern gender and sexuality, with a particular interest in masculinities, progressive subcultures, and esoteric beliefs in a Scottish and Global context, c.1870-1920.
Dr Saurabh Lall He/Him	International Business	Dr Lall is interested in gender and entrepreneurship and small business development. His current research focuses on testing ways to make financing more easily accessible to women entrepreneurs using field experiments and observational data.
Dr. Sam Lawton He/him	Sociology	Dr. Lawton is an interdisciplinary researcher of bisexuality, with research focusing on masculinity, relationships, sexual identity and prejudice.
Dr Sonja Marzi	Sociology	Dr Marzi’s research focuses on gendered inequalities in urban spaces. This includes: - Resistance to multiple forms of violence - Violence and (chronic) trauma - Displacement - Women's activism & participation - Feminist geographies - Qualitative and feminist research methodology - Participatory (visual) methods - Remote qualitative and participatory research
Dr Nick Mayhew He/Him	Russian	Dr Mayhew’s research explores queer gender and sexuality in Russian and Church Slavonic culture. Nick is particularly interested in bringing queerness to light in contexts that are commonly deemed conservative and heteronormative, such as within the Russian Orthodox Church. His publications focus mainly on the early modern period, but he soon hopes to start working on a new project titled "Queer Christianities in Modern Russian Literature."
Dr Barbara Read She/her	Education	Dr Read’s research regards gender and student/staff experiences in HE; Gender and the disciplines; Academic work/life and social precarity.
Dr Kristina Saunders	Sociology	Dr Saunder’s research focuses on gender, class, sexual and reproductive health, reproductive justice, feminist theory and qualitative methodologies.
Prof Alex Shepard She/her	History	Professor Shepard’s current research is focused on gender, work and care in Britain between 1660 and 1815. Shepard has published widely on the history of masculinity and patriarchy, on the intersection of gender and social inequalities, and on gender and the law in the early modern period.
Dr Matthew Waites He/him	Sociology	Dr Waites research is in international political sociology and global historical sociology on sexualities, genders and queer politics in relation to colonialisms.