School of Social and Political Science

Launch of the Democratic Capabilities Framework: Strengthening inclusive participation in democratic life

In this webinar, Lucy Parry, Oliver Escobar and Adrian Bua will introduce the Democratic Capabilities Framework (DCF) as a conceptual and practical resource for reorienting the design and evaluation of participatory processes, as well as of policies that aim to support a more participatory democracy.

AI Futures Seminar Series: keynote by professors Paola Ricaurte Quijano & Nick Couldry

Net Zero: Governance Through Goal Setting and Competing Knowledge Claims

Where to next for science, knowledge and policy?

Un-welcome to Denmark. The paradigm shift and refugee integration

Join us online with Professor Michelle Pace

Celebration of Practice Education

This is an in-person event aimed at Practice Educators.

SKAPE Seminar: A Critique of Epistemocracy, with Ambrosio Velasco Gómez

The Talk critically discusses a hegemonic conception of scientific knowledge as a resource for justifying political power, “epistemocracy”.

Social Work Staff and PhD Student Research Conference 2026

Join us for a full day of engaging talks, shared insights and connection.

SPS Inaugural lecture: Professor Hugo Gorringe

Join us to celebrate Hugo Gorringe's professorship at his inaugural lecture: Protest and Survive: The Wider Outcomes of Social Movements

What happened in the 2026 Scottish elections?

Layered Environmental Governance: Co-producing forest conservation in indigenous and community contexts in Oaxaca, Mexico

Join our session with Esther Perez Macias, from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City.

PeopleFest 2026

This May, the Association of Social Anthropologists has chosen Edinburgh to host the second edition of ASA PeopleFest - its public festival of social anthropology. Following the inaugural edition in Manchester in 2024, the festival comes to Edinburgh for our Social Anthropology subject area’s 80th anniversary.

EdCMA Annual Lecture 2026

Join us for the 2026 EdCMA Annual Lecture.