Section: News
The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise results are out and we are far above the UK average.
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Social Policy group to host the Journal from January . Read More
Edinburgh's Donald Mackenzie's article in the current issue of the London Review of Books describes How to Start a Hedge Fund. . Read More
Jean Monnet Chair funding from the European Commission has been awarded to Dr. David Howarth over the 2008-2011 period.. Read More
Congratulations to Alex Beresford who is featured in the latest edition of the Africa Past & Present podcast. . Read More
Lynn Jamieson's CRFR briefing on parenting, commenting on aspects of the second sweep of the Growing Up in Scotland survey, got significant press coverage over several days in October. . Read More
Francesca Bray is one of eleven authors of the 7-volume Technology in World History (ed. W. Bernard Carlson, Oxford University Press, 2005) which has just been awarded the Society for the History of Technology’s 2008 Sally Hacker Prize. . Read More
Researchers at Edinburgh recently completed a project on European migration policies. Read More
Andrew Neal has published a new edited volume entitled 'Foucault on Politics, Security and War', co-edited with Professor Michael Dillon of Lancaster University.. Read More
Understanding the Information Needs and Uses of Life Science.. Read More
An international team of scholars being co-organised by Prof. John Peterson in Edinburgh Politics and International Relations have launched their survey of around 4,500 staff at the European Commission. . Read More
"Recent Constitutional Developments in Canada: Directions and Debates", Tuesday 30 September (4:30pm), Room G11, WRB.. Read More
UNMASKING THE AMERICAN MYTH at 7.30pm on Thursday, 18th September 2008, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2 (combined into one for this event)
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The work of two SPS researchers, Tom Molony and Olga Morawczynski, has been included in a new report that lists the 20 most influential studies of mobile technologies in developing countries.
Mrs Patsy Hodgson, Head of School's Secretary, has recently retired from the University. . Read More
Marina Marouda has won the RAI Sutasoma Award for 2008, for her PhD Lives Intimately Connected: The Dead and the Living in Contemporary Central Viet Nam. The Trustees state that the award recognizes the potentially outstanding merit of her research. . Read More
Wilfried Swenden and Nicola McEwen have won a prestigious award in the Economic and Social Research Council’s annual seminar series competition.
. Read MoreAnanda Galappatti, who is studying for his PhD in Social Anthropology, has been awarded Asia's premier prize, the Ramon Magsaysay Award, for his outstanding work as a medical anthropologist in the aftermath of the 2004 tusnami in Sri Lanka. . Read More
Paul Nugent has become the new Chair/president of AEGIS, for a 3 year term, in succession to Patrick Chabal. . Read More
A British health care expert has been asked by the Nepalese Government to help tackle the country’s TB problem. . Read More
Politics/IR staff Elizabeth Bomberg and Chad Damro led a successful bid for a Europa Institute-funded seminar series on 'The EU, Climate Change and Global Environmental Governance'.
. Read MorePrinceton University Press has just sold the Chinese rights to Do Economists Make Markets?, edited by Lucia Siu (who has just graduated with a PhD from Edinburgh Sociology), Donald MacKenzie and Fabian Muniesa. Read More
Grant for two year project received. Read More
The African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE) that was founded in Edinburgh in 2007 has been selected by the European Science Foundation for approval to ESF Member Organizations. Out of 122 applications for research networks across all subjects, only 19 proposals were successful. Subject to sufficient funding being available, the project will become active in 2009 and will fund a regular series of conferences, workshops, summer schools and working groups. Read More
Donald MacKenzie wins award for his book An Engine, not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. Read More
Liz Stanley has been awarded one of the largest grants ever received by Edinburgh Sociology.. Read More
PhD students and early career researchers from Social Anthropology have returned from a week in the Highlands, spent with their peers from other Scottish universities, as part of the new Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) programme. . Read More
The School has moved!. Read More
Dr Joost Fontein has accepted an invitation to deliver the Royal Anthropological Institute Curl Lectureship in 2009.. Read More
The 'MERCURY' project is coordinated by Edinburgh University and includes 8 other partner institutions in Europe, Africa and China.
. Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the launch of our new MSc/Diploma/Certificate in Advanced Social Work Studies (Adult Protection).. Read More
On Monday 2 June, SSPS will begin a sequence of moves which will include departure from the Adam Ferguson Building, which (it is anticipated) will be closed (for an extensive programme of refurbishment) by Monday 16 June.. Read More
The British Academy have awarded Dr Heonik Kwon a £100,000 Research Development Award. The project, New Ancestral Shrines after the Cold War runs from January 2009-June 2010.. Read More
Donald Mackenzie's essay "End-of-the-World Trade" was published in the 8th May 2008 edition of the London Review of Books.. Read More
An article, "End-of-the-World Trade", by Sociology's Professor Donald MacKenzie, is a leading item in the 8 May issue of the London Review of Books.
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Professor Charlie Jeffery is Acting Head of School from 1 April 2008 until 31 October 2008.
. Read MoreOne of Edinburgh Politics and IR’s former undergraduates, Anna Davidson, has recently published an article – originally written during her 3rd year for the honours course ‘Political Theory of European Integration’ – in a high-quality, refereed journal: the ‘Journal of Contemporary European Research’.
. Read MoreDominic Johnson has been awarded (along with Dominic Tierney) the International Studies Association’s annual prize for the best book on international studies for their work ‘Failing to Win’ (Harvard University Press, 2006).
. Read MoreRoland Dannreuther and Luke March have won a grant entitled 'Radicalisation and Violence: the Russian Dimension’ for 2007-9, valued at £202,000.. Read More
This page was published on 27 October 2008