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The Gender and Politics Research Group brings together researchers across Politics and International Relations, all of whom use gender and feminist analyses in their research. The members of the GPRG explore issues in relation to the broad themes of gender relations, power, institutions, and change.

Past and current projects fall within three broad areas:

• Gender and Politics, including gender and constitutional change in the United Kingdom, gender and political recruitment, and international, European, and local approaches to gender mainstreaming
• Gender and International Relations, including military masculinities and international gender norm diffusion
• Gender and Political Theory, including feminist institutionalism and feminist ethics

The main activities of the group are hosting the long-running Gender Reading Group, which draws upon feminist and gender researchers at the University of Edinburgh and colleagues at other Scottish Universities, as well as various workshops, conferences, and seminars.

The members of the GPRG are committed to gendering the disciplines of Politics and International Relations. Our members are engaged in research and teaching activities on gender and politics. Until recently, GPRG members lectured on and organized a School-wide interdisciplinary honours course, Contemporary Feminist Thought, whose students won the national PSA Women and Politics Essay Prize in 2006, 2007, and 2008. GPRG members have developed the new honours course Global Politics of Sex and Gender (which ran for the first time in 2009-10). One of our students once again won the PSA Women and Political Essay Prize for 2010.