School of Social and Political Science

Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Journals

In this online workshop, experienced editors of journals in the social sciences will talk us through the publication process and the dos and dont's of peer review.

Africa’s Future Politics: Mobile Space-Time, Urban Epistemics, and Scales of Solidarity

This is CAS 6th seminar in their Seminar Series of 2023-2024

Migrancy, Resource Contestation and Citizenship Claims in Uganda’s Oil Region

The Centre of African Studies (CAS) in partnership with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) are delighted to invite you to the following seminar presented by Dr Nicholas Tunanukye from Makarere University (Uganda).

‘Salir Adelante’: Transitional Justice, Gender and Citizenship in Colombia

Navigating Local Transitional Justice: Agency at Work in Post-conflict Sierra Leone (CAS Book Launch)

This is CAS 5th seminar in their Seminar Series 2023/2024

The policy nexus of European Energy Efficiency in building and social policy

European Social Policy by stealth or a marketing trick of central regulations?

The Fight for Democracy: Journey of a Political Activist Witnessing the Fall of Hong Kong

Journey of a Political Activist Witnessing the Fall of Hong Kong

Settler Socialism, Social Parasitism: Labor, Addiction, and (Dis)incorporation in Kyrgyzstan

Drawing on ethnographic research in southern Kyrgyzstan, my talk delves into the lives and worlds of chronically homeless and unemployed populations struggling with opioid and alcohol addiction whose families had been displaced from their homelands and resettled in Central Asia by the Soviet state.

Locked-Down Love: Anne’s Law, Care Homes and the Next Pandemic

What can be done to speed Anne’s Law into legislation as quickly and effectively as possible?

Identifying trends in mental wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic

The third event in the Q-Step research seminar series

Jillian Schwedler - 'Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent'

2022 Notable Book of the Year Award winner, Author Jillian Schwedler visits the University of Edinburgh.

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Declarations: Reflections on Christian politics from Africa's only self-declared 'Christian nation'