School of Social and Political Science

Precedented Times: Thinking with African Health Histories After the Chainsaw Comes for Global Health

EdCMA Lunchtime Brown Bag Seminar with global health historian Marissa Mika.

Careers in Journalism Roundtable

How do you go about pursuing a career in journalism? We are bringing together some Edinburgh alumni and other journalists to talk about their experience.

Autumn 2025 Global Mental Health Day

You are invited to join us for an exciting global mental health event.

CSAS Seminar: Forms of the Left for the 21st Century: Contemporary Art, Digital Media, and Repressive Politics in Bangladesh

Woman-not-woman: Deviant Femininity and the Abject Sacred

Q-Step Seminar - Death by Assumption: How an Obsession is Slowly Killing Social Science

Social science aims to explain human behaviour. Yet, an obsession with causality has turned a vital theoretical concept into a statistical fixation.

Democracy Promotion Under Threat of Terrorism: Experimental Evidence and Policy Implications

This seminar examines two fundamental questions: (1) how terrorism reshapes citizens’ democratic attitudes and (2) whether targeted democracy-promotion interventions can shore up democratic values in contexts of chronic terrorism and under autocratic rule. Drawing on original experimental evidence from Burkina Faso.

The Energy Transition and Voter Partisanship

Bitter partisanship has slowed the transition to net zero carbon emissions in the United States, where the Republican Party has turned sharply against prioritizing renewable energy in policymaking.

Shedding light on knowledge graphs: How Airbnb’s data structure economizes place

This talk will explore Knowledge graphs (KGs) as – quite literally – the dark side of platform markets, in both what they produce and how they operate below the interface.

The dilemma of power imbalance in the food supply chain – the place for regulation?

This presentation will examine a range of regulatory responses to power imbalance in the food supply chain at EU level and UK levels, and assess their effectiveness and likelihood of success in increasing fairness in the food supply chain.

Q-Step Seminars - Wealth differences in inheritance timing, types, and values in Europe

Open to all, no registration required.

Parasites, Prostitutes, and Poets