Ruth Pearce, PhD

Ruth Pearce is a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Her research explores issues of inequality, marginalization, power, and political struggle from a trans feminist perspective. She has written on topics including trans health, queer music scenes, and gender equality schemes in higher education. Dr. Pearce is the author of Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility (Policy Press, 2018), and co-editor of The Emergence of Trans: Cultures, Politics and Everyday Lives (with Igi Moon, Kat Gupta, and Deborah Lynn Steinberg: Routledge, 2019) and TERF Wars: Feminism and the Fight for Transgender Futures (with Ben Vincent and Sonja Erikainen; SAGE, 2020).