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Centre of African Studies
03/12/2020
Centre of African Studies

New project allocates £750,000 for research in decoloniality

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh has launched a new fellowships programme to lead research on decoloniality.
Social Policy
01/12/2020
Social Policy

Ingela Naumann to lead on new ESRC-funded project

New ESRC-funded project ‘Childcare and Wellbeing in Times of Covid-19: Developing Crisis-resilient Care Solutions’ on its way.
General News
30/11/2020

University of Edinburgh writers support 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign with Blogathon

genderED, the University of Edinburgh’s hub for gender and sexuality studies, is running a 16-day blogathon, to raise awareness of the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign.

Edinburgh researchers part of ESRC-funded study on global responses to domestic violence and abuse under Covid-19

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science (SPS) are part of a new international study launching later this month to examine global responses to domestic violence and abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic.

25/11/2020

New UK Gov funding for SPS researchers to take on global sustainable development challenges

Experts at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science (SPS) have received a slice of a new £147million investment package from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for various projects.

24/11/2020

New tools to aid restorative justice in Scotland

Dr Steve Kirkwood, Senior Lecturer in Social Work has launched a new toolkit aimed at people involved in designing, setting up or extending restorative justice services.

19/11/2020
Social Policy
19/11/2020
Social Policy

New toolkit to support restorative justice services in Scotland

Researchers have created a toolkit to provide support for people involved with restorative justice in Scotland, facilitating safe communication between a person responsible for a criminal offence and the person they have harmed.

SPS student makes Forbes 30 Under 30 list for work on diversity in foreign policy

Tiaji Sio, a student at the School of Social and Political Science (SPS), has been named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Germany for her impact in diversity and inclusion in foreign policy.

19/11/2020

New EAS-Themes published

October's EAS-Themes has been published.

29/10/2020

Talking Brexit at the Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics

What will happen to Brexit Britain in 2021? Nicola McEwen, Professor of Territorial Politics at SPS and Co-Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change, will join a panel of experts to explore this question at the Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics.

28/10/2020

Join SPS colleagues to raise money in memory of Professor John Peterson

Colleagues from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science (SPS) have challenged themselves to raise £5,000 in aid of postgraduate student learning.

05/10/2020

University of Edinburgh hosts first open-access medical anthropology journal

The Medicine Anthropology Theory (MAT) journal, funded in 2013 by scholars at the University of Amsterdam, has migrated to Edinburgh in 2020.

02/10/2020