School of Social and Political Science

Archiving Feminist and Queer Voices, and the Production of Knowledge

What constitutes the archive when viewed from feminist and queer perspectives? How do we create such archives, and what promise and complexities do they archives present? Join us for a roundtable conversation!

Salon on Gender and Care

Join us for a salon with visiting academics from Una Europe Gender and Equality Network (UGEN) to brainstorm research agendas on ‘care’ – can research go beyond exposing the undercutting, devaluing and neglect of care and point to new directions? - whether care for students within the academy, for people with specific care needs within societies or for our natural world?

Border Economies / Capitalist Imaginaries – Victoria Hattam in dialogue with CRITIQUE-SKAPE

CRITIQUE Methods Workshop with Prof Victoria Hattam- Political Sensorium

The Culture of Democracy - A Sociological Approach to Civil Society

Dr Bin Xu discusses his book which provides a survey of the cultural sociology of civil society and offers a committed global perspective.

A comparative analysis of labour outcomes in Chinese firms in manufacturing and construction in Angola and Ethiopia

The Centre of African Studies is delighted to welcome you to the following seminar as part of their seminar series 2023/2024

The Material Political Economy of Prediction

We are pleased to invite you to an upcoming seminar by Prof Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh) on The Material Political Economy of Prediction.

Beyond the in- and out-of-school binary in India: registering learner attendance

World Social Work Day - Buen Vivir: Shared Future for Transformative Change

Participate in the upcoming World Social Work Day event to be held on 19 March 2024, proudly brought to you by The University of Johannesburg, the University of Edinburgh, South African College of Applied Psychology, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Hope Africa University, BCM College and VIVES University of Applied Sciences.

The Rebel’s Clinic - The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Book Launch and Discussion with Adam Shatz, in conversation with Dr Nida Alahmad, Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East

Q-Step Seminar: Divided We Fall: Opposition Alliances in Autocratic Regimes

Dr Ugur Ozdemir is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. His research interests cover comparative political behaviour, political psychology, bounded rationality, quantitative methods, positive political theory.

Government nudging for pro-social behaviour change in China and the UK

How have the UK and Chinese governments both turned to information infrastructures to 'nudge' their citizens to behave better? This week we discuss two approaches to data-mediated behaviour change efforts.