School of Social and Political Science

Fireside chat with Xiangxian Wang on fatherhood and changing masculinities in China

In the fireside chat, Xiangxian Wang will discuss the social change in fathers’ involvement in parenting in China, including the exploration on the prototype of Confucian fatherhood, the modern fatherhood constructed by the factory law during 1930s and the current transformation of fatherhood from the absent to caring in the 21st century.

Contested Knowledge on Migrant Disappearances–Maurice Stierl–26 February 2024

Digital Ethnography Work-in-Progress Meeting

Anti-Abortion Testimony and Legislative Debate in US Early Abortion Bans

This seminar will examine the arguments used by lawmakers in advocating for limits on abortion access

Review of International Studies at 50

Join us to celebrate 50 years of the Review of International Studies and editorship moving to Edinburgh.

South Africa's empire on the rivers and the militarization of Caprivi Zipfel, c.1948-75

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

Narratives, interaction and desistance from crime

Social Work at the University of Edinburgh presents a seminar on research, theory and practice on narratives, interaction and desistance from crime. The presenters are Mari Todd-Kvam (Uppsala University), Dr Eve Mullins (The University of Edinburgh) and Dr Steve Kirkwood (The University of Edinburgh). The seminar explores how people narrate and account for their processes of moving away from offending behaviour, and how social work and probation practice figures in people’s processes of change. The event is free to attend and aimed at both researchers and practitioners.

Inventing Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal: Trajectories of lime in heritage reconstruction.

Centre for South Asian Studies seminar

Q-Step Seminar: Youth Transitions and Economic Activity: A Re-examination of NCDS data

Scott Oatley is a graduate from the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford and is currently a final year ESRC funded PhD student in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His PhD research uses a series of large and complex social survey data resources to provide a detailed longitudinal picture of the nature of transitions from education to work in the UK.

Unissued Diplomas Exhibition

This free digital exhibition marks the two-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and honours the memory of students who will now never graduate because of it.

Festival of Creative Methods

Find out more on this brilliant 3-week festival of all-things-methods

Philanthropy and Global South welfare - understanding policy transfer strategies

This presentation takes a closer look at the different policy transfer strategies occurring in the concomitant processes, drawing on the case of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the health sector.