Fiona Mackay

Fiona Mackay is a professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Mackay is also director of genderED, the University of Edinburgh's interdisciplinary hub for gender and sexuality studies. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Research and career Mackay received her BA (Hons) in Politics and Modern History from the University of Manchester, then her PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh.

Mackay's research interests include gender and political representation, feminist institutionalism, gender and institutional change, gender and public policy.