School of Social and Political Science

Planetary Gamble: Climate Breakdown or Solar Geoengineering?

Join Danielle Young to explore what happens when geoengineering meets geopolitical competition.

Ambedkar and Ambedkarites Beyond India

Ambedkar and Ambedkarites Beyond India

A Neuropolitical Understanding of Government & Opposition: Professor Laura Cram

Government and Opposition Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture 2024

The New Territorial Agenda: National and Regional Devolution in the UK Post-Election

This panel will explore the evolving landscape of devolution in the UK following the 2024 general election.

The Fennell Forum 2024: Reflections on the US Presidential election

The Fennell Forum and Politics & IR invite you to a Roundtable discussion: ‘What just happened? Reflections on the US Presidential election'

The Power of Quantitative Research for Social Work Practice

By applying empirical methods and statistical analysis, quantitative research helps social workers understand patterns, measure variables accurately, and establish relationships between them. This approach is vital in an area of practice that directly affects individual lives and communities.

Born to Rule. The Making and Remaking of the British Elite

Think of the British elite and familiar caricatures spring to mind. But are today’s power brokers a conservative chumocracy, born to privilege and anointed at Eton and Oxford? Or is a new progressive elite emerging with different values and political instincts?

Contesting Computing: Imagining Feminist Technofutures

This discussion considers the role education has played in developing our technological landscape and how it can help work towards a fairer future.

“Unruly” Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan (Book Talk)

Ruth Kinna – Anarchist Constitutionalising - CRITIQUE Seminar

Typically, anarchy is considered the opposite of a constitutional order. But the reality is more complex. This talk reveals how anarchists constitutionalise: how and why they develop declarations, rules, institutions, and democratic decision-making procedures within anarchist groups to transform in the world in which they act.

Migration Policies, Reproductive Injustice, and Migrant Parents' Health.

Dr Laura Sochas - Chancellor's Fellow in Social Policy at SPS

Comparative Ethnographies of Crooked Beasts: An Uncertain Method for the Climate Crisis