School of Social and Political Science

Global Mental Health Day June 2025

Join us for the annual spring Edinburgh Global Mental Health day. This online and in-person event brings together University of Edinburgh students, alumni, staff, and external colleagues with an interest in the interdisciplinary field of global mental health.

Global Mental Health ECR Workshop

Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in global and cross-cultural mental health? The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology and the Global Mental Health Collaborative is pleased to invite you to a workshop with Dr Rochelle Burgess, Professor of Global Mental Health and Social Justice at University College London.

No Differences: A public talk by Dr Jamie Budnick on Debating Demographic Expertise in U.S. Marriage Equality Cases

The Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and GENDER.ED are delighted to welcome Dr Jamie Budnick (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Cornell University) to the University of Edinburgh.

What’s in a name?- “Sakha”

Join Dr. Künnej Takaahai (University of Warsaw) for The Virtual Exhibition of Sakha Artists (2024), part of the larger To Be – Named project.

Social Work Staff-Student Research Conference 2025

Join us for the annual research conference for Social Work students, staff and external colleagues at the University of Edinburgh on the 11th June.

Breaking Boundaries, Questioning Canons: In-Conversation with A Feminist Publisher

Please join us in conversation between Urvashi Butalia, the CEO of Zubaan Books, and Dr Radhika Govinda, Director of GENDER.ED.

Roundtable: researching on-campus gender-based violence

Undertaking research on campus in relation to student and staff experiences of gender-based violence – safe practice as best practice.

RTC: Artificial Intelligence in Social Science Panel Discussion

Discussion of the current and future impacts of AI on research work, and general thoughts about AI’s impact on society and social change.

The Method is Listening: Sounding Out Reproductive Resistance

Join us, and our guest speakers, Dr Liz Gre and Princess Banda, for Seminar 6 of our Reproductive Justice Mini-Seminar Series.

Space, service and identity: thinking through a progressive vision of work/welfare policy

APeCS Conference 2025: Future-Making in Times of Conflict, Violence and Insecurity

Call for panels/workshops/roundtables is now open. The deadline for submission of panel/workshop proposals is January 12, 2025. Please note that the APeCS conference 2025 is an in-person event.

APeCS Conference Programme