Dr. Siobhan Magee

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Biography

Siobhan Magee is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. Her research interests encompass kinship relatedness, marriage, reproduction, gender, and sexuality, alongside explorations of history, memory, and material culture. Magee received her PhD in Social Anthropology from Edinburgh, after completing her undergraduate and MSc studies. Her professional path includes a postdoctoral fellowship in Design Informatics and teaching stints at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Her fieldwork has spanned various contexts including Poland, examining entrepreneurship and gender, and the UK, focusing on charity shops and secondhand objects. She has published multiple articles and co-edited volumes, including works on marriage in contemporary contexts and critical perspectives on kinship. As a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she leads several courses in Social Anthropology and supervises student dissertations on topics ranging from intimacy in AI to inclusive sex education. Her teaching is characterized by an engagement with both contemporary and historical issues relevant to anthropological discourse.

Research Interests

Experience

Lecturer

2021-01-01 — Present

University of Edinburgh • Edinburgh, Scotland

Lecturer in Social Anthropology, engaged in teaching and supervising students, focusing on issues of kinship, gender, and material culture.

Courses

Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction Kinship: Structure and Process Consumption, Exchange, Technology: Anthropology of Economic Processes Introduction to Social Anthropology

Requirements for University of Edinburgh

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.25
IELTS
Listening
Required:6
Reading
Required:6
Writing
Required:6
Speaking
Required:6
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:100
Prerequisites
Undergraduate degree in business, management, or related subject
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