School of Social and Political Science

Bodies of Knowledge

This project explores how the internet has and is being used by patients, practitioners and researchers in relation to Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI), a proposed cause for the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.

Bones Collective

The Bones Collective is an interdisciplinary research network of anthropologists, archaeologists, artists based at the University of Edinburgh who share an interest in human bones.

BRIDGES: Assessing the production and impact of migration narratives

The BRIDGES project, funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, aims to understand the causes and consequences of migration narratives in the context of increased politicisation and polarisation in many European countries in recent years.

Bringing labour back in: class antagonism, labour agency and Britain’s active labour market reforms

The project challenges top-down accounts that explain this transformation through a focus on the ideas and interests of elites.

Business Models, Venture Capital and the Funding Gap in Regenerative Medicine

The Innogen Institute is providing recommendations on options for making public and private sector investments in regenerative medicine more attractive and profitable through the identification of alternative commercialisation models.

Changing food habits and health from infancy to childhood

This research looks at childhood food and health inequalities and how these change over time within the context of family factors and social policy.

Citizen Science Initiatives and Participatory Research

Looking into ways of raising the awareness of the potential that 'good' Citizen Science has for academics and policymakers alike.

ClimateXChange

Developing an interdisciplinary understanding of international developments in energy markets, policies and regulations.

Curious Edinburgh

Curious Edinburgh is on a mission to create mobile walking tours showing off Edinburgh's exceptional role in major scientific discoveries of the past five centuries across physics, geology and medicine.

Data & Football

A programme using mixed methods to map out expertise in the area of performance measurement at the intersection of data science, algorithmic culture, media and sport.

Data Benefits

Developing Data The use of digital data in African contexts

This GCRF funded project establishes a network of parties interested in the wide range of opportunities and risks that have been created as a result of the use of digital data.