Cat Wayland
- Name
- Cat Wayland
- Title
- Organisation
- Politics and International Relations School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
- Address
- Edinburgh UK
- Telephone
- cwayland@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Critical Social and Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Methodology in political theory, Exclusion, Critical epistemologies, politics of knowldge production, Decolonisation, Intersectionality
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/politics_and_ir/cat_wayland
Supervisors
Mihaela Mihai (Politics) & Radhika Govinda (Sociology)
Research
My PhD project is situated at the intersection of theories of oppression and exclusion, methodology in political theory, and the global politics of knowledge production. I centre critical scholarship on disability, gender, and race from Southern perspectives and mobilise these to animate critiques of the ontologies and methodologies deployed in contemporary normative political theories.
Education
2017-present - PhD Political Theory, University of Edinburgh
2016-2017 - MScR Politics, University of Edinburgh
2012-2013 - MA Political Philosophy (distinction), University of York
2009-2012 - BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy and Economics (1st class honours), University of York
Funding and Awards
2019 - Student Experience Grant (with Kamya Choudhary) awarded £2615 for two art-based projects on decolonising knowledge production
2016-2020 - ESRC 1+3 Studentship
2013 - Geoffrey Heselton Dissertation Prize (MA Political Philosophy)
2013 - Department of Politics Postgraduate Prize (MA Political Philosophy)
2012-2013 - Morrell Studentship for the MA in Political Philosophy (The Idea of Toleration)
Teaching and Lecturing
2019 - Gender, Marginality and Social Change - Lecturer (with Sarah Golightley), Feminism and Disability in Global Contexts
2019 - Political Thinkers - Tutor
Presentations
2019 - ‘Decolonising Research and Feminist Friendships: A Conversation Across Boundaries’ - paper presented with Kamya Choudhary and Marta Kowalewska at Decolonising Feminist Knowledge: Reflections on Research and Curriculum
2019 - 'The Ableist Republic' - paper presented at Political Theory Research Group, University of Edinburgh
Community and Representation
2017-2019 - Politics and IR Postgraduate Representative (with Emilia Belknap)