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Loud
11/12/2025
Social Policy

Call to increase funding for ‘invisible’ Deaf victim-survivors of domestic abuse

A new report warns that Deaf women experiencing domestic abuse in Scotland remain ‘effectively invisible’ due to the chronic absence of specialist services and a lack of coordinated national support. Researchers say this gap leaves deaf victim-survivors without meaningful access to safety and advocacy.

Jean-Benoit Falisse
11/12/2025
Centre of African Studies

SPS researcher awarded ERC Consolidator grant to study consequences of reparation programmes for war crimes and human rights violations

Dr Jean-Benoit Falisse has won a €2million grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to research the aftermath of reparation programmes for the victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and grave human rights violations.

Nick Prior
04/12/2025
Sociology

Professor Nick Prior nominated for Japan’s Kyoto Prize 

Sociologist Professor Nick Prior has received a nomination for the 2026 Kyoto Prize, Japan’s most prestigious private award for lifetime achievement in the arts and sciences. 
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26/11/2025
 

SPS Winter Graduation 2025

Congratulations to the 2025 School of Social and Political Science (SPS) graduates!

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Poster
09 January 2026
09:00 - 17:00
Sociology

The War Image: The ethics of showing, seeing and sharing war

What is the role of the artist, the photograph, and humanitarian communication in wars defined by the digital flux and saturation of images? Has digital participation and instant connectivity illuminated or obscured war’s human experience and costs? How are colonial technologies of vision and image-making translated into the realm of automated decision making? And after digital war is all that is left only more traumatic memory or something salvageable for remembrance, justice and accountability?

This symposium launches Prof. Andrew Hoskins’ project WARSHARE: The New War Front: Digital Participation in War (UKRI HEu ERC Advanced Grant EP/Z53335X/1
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14 January 2026
15:30 - 18:00
Centre of African Studies

Africa 2026: Prospects and Forecasts Crossroads, Transitions, and Futures

This event is in partnership with the Royal African Society, Edinburgh Global, and the Centre of African Studies.
Poster
16 January 2026
13:00 - 15:00
Social Policy

Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families

Poster
23 January 2026
13:00 - 15:00
Social Policy

Viral debt: understanding debt, austerity, and precarity of place