School of Social and Political Science

Austerity from the Left: Social Democratic Parties in the Shadow of the Great Recession

In this seminar, Björn Bremer explains how this came about and explores its political consequences, combining qualitative and quantitative methods and drawing on a wide range of empirical evidence to study both the demand- and supply-side of politics.

Links and tensions between social movements and political parties

A Researching Latin America Series event exploring the links and conflicts between social movements and party politics in Chile.

What Is To Be Disentangled?

Ontological Lessons From Marine Mammals

Leaky realities of waste management: notes on containment as a spatio-temporal technology

Taking its cues from ongoing joint empirical work on the leaky realities of waste management, the talk develops the contours of a ‘containerology’, interrogating containment as a spatio-temporal technology that makes waste manageable and shapes human and more-than-human relations.

Behind the Curtains of the Recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive

Join Dr. Johan Nordensvärd for a unique look behind the curtains of the roles of the European Council and member state governments within a deliberative intergovernmental framework.

Speaking out against Imperialism, Settler-Colonialism and Epistemic Violence: The University of Edinburgh's role in Dispossession & Genocide in Palestine

Speaking out against Imperialism,Settler-Colonialism and Epistemic Violence: The University of Edinburgh's role in Dispossession & Genocide in Palestine.

The event is co-badged with the Edinburgh Staff-Student Solidarity Network

Who Can Speak on Behalf of “Us”?

Who Can Speak on Behalf of “Us”?

Impact and Engagement Workshops: Interpreting and Evidencing Impact

This workshop will explore what might constitute appropriate evidence for different types of impact, the practicalities of collecting it, and how impact evidence is handled at the University of Edinburgh.

RTC Talking Methods Seminar: Wither methodological pluralism: Hoorah for silos?

What is meant by methodological pluralism? How should we understand its purpose?

Who makes "AI"? Uncovering the workers behind AI in the global south

In the 1970s the rich world started to export it's data processing needs to low income countries, starting with India. This outsourcing of the tedious behind the scenes work of our digital lives and business continues to grow and has come to include moderating our social media and training our AI system.

David Schlosberg (University of Sydney): Climate turbulence, justice, and democratic experimentation

Please join us in welcoming Professor David Schlosberg (Director of the University of Sydney's Environment Institute). Professor Schlosberg will present his new research project, entitled "Climate turbulence, justice, and democratic experimentation".

'Saving history from the historians’: Historical knowledge production and the claims of political science – Dina Khoury in dialogue with CRITIQUE-MERG