School of Social and Political Science

Lived Experience as evidence? Exploring a governance-driven perspective

In this talk Dr Hayley Bennett and Dr Clementine Hill O’Connor draw on participatory governance literature to consider the different drivers of the move towards the use of ‘lived experience’ in policymaking and identify how ‘lived experience’ connects to the evidence-use literature that considers how types of evidence are perceived and utilised in policymaking.

Black Britain and Nelson Mandela (Book Launch)

This book launch will feature and foreground leading Black voices from across the academy, in discourse about Nelson Mandela and the impact of his life upon Black communities and British public life. This is a fresh take on Mandela the Man, rather than the enduring myth.

Global Marxism and the Decolonial Turn

Marxism became the most prominent school of thought in inspiring revolutionary ideas throughout the global South, particularly in the second half of the twentieth century when nations were in search of alternatives to advances of imperialist and colonial forces.

Neither East, Nor West: Histories of Non-Alignment and Third Worldism in modern Iran

Talk from visiting speaker as part of PIR’s Contemporary Middle East Series 2024-25

Patria Libre Y Vivir

Photography and Protest in Nicaragua

Muslim labour market penalties in the context of contemporary migrations from Eastern Europe to the UK

Part of the Q-Step Research Seminar Series

Roundtable on Queering Research Methods

This event explores how queer perspectives enrich contemporary research methods and scholarship in the arts and beyond.

How Platforms Fail Democracy

Join Professor Daniel Kreiss for an in-depth talk and discussion, hosted by the School of Political Science, on how platforms fail democracy. It will examine their role in political polarisation and disinformation, while advocating for democracy-worthy policies to safeguard elections and institutions.

Developing a Critical Pedagogy of Migration Studies by Teresa Piacentini

This talk introduces Dr Piacentini’s book, Developing a Critical Pedagogy of Migration, which grapples with the ethical and political dilemmas of teaching migration in polarized, politically charged times.

Examining the impact of the UK’s ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy

After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania

The European Commission signed a €210 million migration partnership deal with Mauritania in March 2024 to address increased arrivals on the Canary Islands. This deal is part of a long line of border externalisation policies implemented across West Africa since 2006. The book discusses the social relations and structures of EU migration policies in Mauritania, highlighting the coalescence between colonial legacy and capitalism's tendency to cast people out of development.

This event is co-badged by the Citizenship and Migration Research Network (CMRN).

Beyond Meat & Memes

This paper will present findings from an ongoing multimodal critical discourse analysis of vegan social media activist and promotional posts on Instagram and TikTok; two of the most widely used and influential social media platforms today.