School of Social and Political Science

India in Edinburgh - 1750s to the Present

India in Edinburgh is a long-term project to document and to make available in publications and digitally a range of resources that show how India has affected Edinburgh in the past 250 years.

Industrialisation of livestock systems in South Africa

Industrial change in South Africa's livestock economy and their social & environmental implications

Innovation and Inclusive Industrialisation in Agro-processing

Agro-processing industries are expected to be transformed over the coming decades by a major shift in domestic food demand created by urbanisation rising incomes and changing consumer habits.

Integrating Technical and Social Aspects of Fire safety Engineering Expertise

This research is geared towards improving fire safety and the quality of the built environment by better interaction and integration of social scientific and engineering research.

Integration of Power Transmission Grids

The primary objective of this project is to generate new knowledge about the institutional, technological, and economical, challenges related to the transformation of transmission power grids across Europe.

Investigating the Implementation, Adoption and Effectiveness of ePrescribing Systems in English Hospitals

The project will explore how software design and implementation strategies affect the outcomes of e-prescribing.

Learning Energy Systems

This project will develop a collective 'Learning Energy System' involving people, objects, data and machines. Central to this is a digital system designed to align human needs and comfort with building energy systems, with the aim of reducing overall energy demand.

Local Perceptions and Media Representations of Election Observation in Africa

During several recent elections in Africa, questions have been raised about the competency and partiality of observation missions, and about the future of observation both on the continent and elsewhere. In this context, this project improves understandings, for both academics and practitioners, of election observation.

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.

More than a Footnote: Strengthening Inclusion through Disability Arts, Policy and Scholarship

Reshaping how disability is understood through storytelling, arts, and interdisciplinary research.