School of Social and Political Science

Introduction to HOPE: Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences framework

An introduction to the HOPE framework, which focuses on how positive experiences can buffer the effects of Adverse Child Experiences.

CANCELLED: Still a Model? What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from German Federalism

This event explores whether German federalism still offers useful lessons for Scotland and the UK.

The Closet as an Information Management System: Queer Lives, STS and the Dangers of Inclusion

Join Dr Kevin Guyan (Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Edinburgh) as he shares ideas from his new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), which explores what happens when LGBTQ communities encounter the classifications, categories and labels assigned to them.

Sister Services: Moral Economies of Electricity Before and Beyond the State in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands

This talk explores how small-scale hydroelectric projects, introduced through Catholic mission stations in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands, gave rise to distinct moral economies of energy. By tracing the entangled relationships between water, electricity, and community life, it reveals how electrification became a site of service, sacrifice, and social obligation. As the national grid expands, the talk examines how church and state—sometimes allies, sometimes rivals—continue to shape the moral and material landscape of energy development in Tanzania.

Social Murder? Life expectancy and austerity in the UK

Hypermobile ghettos in a digital world of work: online work as bounded liberation among refugees and other entrapped populations (CANCELLED)

Writing the 'Woman Question' in Science: Feminist Challenges, Reflections and Musings

Writing the 'Woman Question' in Science: Feminist Challenges, Reflections and Musings with Dr Gita Chadha, Azim Premji University.

CSAS Seminar: The Fabrication of Homeland Security: authoritarianisms and policing across India and Palestine/Israel

Entangled Medical Futures: Workshop on Plural Medicine in Highland Asia

A three-day interdisciplinary workshop exploring plural medicine, traditional healing, and climate-altered care systems in Highland Asia.

Inaugural lecture: Professor George Palattiyil

Carrying Tomorrow: Hope in Exile and the Will to Begin Again

In a world fractured by conflict, climate change, and growing hostility towards displaced peoples, refugee lives are often narrated through a lens of crisis and despair. But behind the headlines and across the borders, another story unfolds — one of fierce resilience, quiet resistance, and the will to begin again.

Parasites, Prostitutes, and Poets