School of Social and Political Science

New Directions Conference

Join us to hear from our academic community on the latest sociological research and thinking.

Methods Workshop with Prof Julian Go and Dr Jared Holley – Anticolonial Thought as Social Theory: the (anti)colonial limits of solidarity?

Scottish Election Study Annual Lecture

Losers' Consent and Sovereignty Referendums: Potential Referendums on Irish Unification with Professor John Garry

Attuned Trauma-Safe Research – Enabling children’s participation in family violence research

Child maltreatment prevalence data from Australia indicates that 43.8% of young people aged 16-24 years reported experiences of family violence. However, despite this data, children and young people’s voices are less represented in the scholarship.

This paper draws on qualitative research conducted in Australia with gatekeepers on the barriers and enablers in family violence research with children.

Policing Empires–Julian Go in Dialogue with CRITIQUE & RACE.ED

The police response to protests erupting on America’s streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper understanding of its historical development, causes, and social logics. Policing Empires offers a postcolonial historical sociology of police militarization in Britain and the United States to aid that effort.

Inaugural lecture: Professor Mathias Thaler

AI Safety: Knowledge and Ignorance on the Verge of Catastrophe

Join Dr Apolline Taillandier to examine the construction of AI safety in the USA and the UK from the 2010s onwards

Citizenship and Migration Research (CMR) Network Social

We are very pleased to invite you to an informal social gathering of the Citizenship and Migration Research (CMR) Network.

Free Loaves on Fridays

The Care System as Told by People who Actually Get it.

Exploring the Outcomes of the 2024 English Local Elections

Exploring the sub-national and national implications of the English Local Elections ahead of the UK General Election

There’s Strength in Networks: The External Incentives Model and Informality in South-Eastern Europe

This talk will be about what we can learn from the experience of accession in the Western Balkans, both theoretically and to help the new candidate states of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.

Capitalist Time and its Other

Indian International Students in Toronto