School of Social and Political Science

Making Genomic Medicine

This project is locating the developments in genomic medicine in historical perspective by producing a comprehensive account of the socio-technical process.

Metro - International Organisations and the Rise of a Global Metrological Field

Mobilized, Recruited, Conscripted: Leveraging community health work, citizenship and public authority in northern Kenya

The project applies a critical lens to community voluntarism as promoted historically, combined with ethnography and life histories to understand how voluntary labour is actualised.

Networks of Reproduction in Complex Planetary Futures (NETREP)

NETREP (Networks of Reproduction in Complex Planetary Futures) is a 4-year, qualitative study, using multiple methods. The project is being led by Anna-Maija Castrén at the University of Eastern Finland. Anna-Maija is joined by project research colleagues Aino Luotonen and Jenna Siivonen at the University of Eastern Finland, Vanessa Cunha and Rita Gouveia at the University of Lisbon, and Lynn Jamieson, Emma Davidson, Liliana Arias Uruena, and Lisa Howard at the University of Edinburgh.

Pandemic Playlist

During the pandemic, lockdown conditions changed how music was played and heard. Not only were people listening to more music at home, they were also participating in new musical occasions such as balcony concerts, live-streamed performances and self-isolation recording projects.

Parental Leave Policy in Scotland

Using a mixed methods approach, this research explores how parental leave could be improved in Scotland and how fathers can be supported to use the leave they are entitled to.

Participation Requests in Scotland: Empowering communities?

This project specifically researched Participation Requests, a new legislative tool to enable a community group or body to request to be part of decision-making processes that seek to make improvements to public services.

Policy, Publics & Action Research Group

An interdisciplinary and comparative group organised around monthly activities during the semester.

Reframing Energy Demand

Providing insight into feasible and effective ways forward for UK energy efficiency and sustainable heat policy.

Regenerative medicine and its development and implementation

The principal aim of this research is to examine the regenerative medicine (RM) field, in particular developments in cell therapies.

Restorative Justice in Scotland

This research has focused on understanding the nature and effects of using restorative justice in Scotland.

Return from Peacekeeping: Mission Effects on Veterans, States, and Communities

This project looks at the effects that peacekeeping deployments can have on soldiers, militaries, and communities upon return from the mission.