School of Social and Political Science

"Passing Down Pollution": Reflections on kinship in and outside epigenetic toxicology

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Heather Love (POSTPONED DUE TO STRIKE)

Distinguished Scholar series: Symposium on the work of Robert Vitalis

The PIR Distinguished Scholar series and the Contemporary Middle East Series presents the Robert Vitalis Symposium.  

Digital Research in Hybrid, Fractured and Hidden Worlds

In this seminar, Dr Angus Bancroft will discuss social research in digital spaces that are hidden or part of a fractured digital world.

Towards the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice

“Digital justice” is already an established phase in criminal justice discourse in Scotland, and elsewhere. It denotes the application of “digital” (read “information and communication”) technologies within and between criminal justice agencies, most notably the police but now including prosecution services, courts, in the 21st century, prisons and probation services. It isn’t an isolated development – it needs to be seen in the context of more general “political” moves towards the creation of “digital public services” and, more abstractly, “digital governance”.

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Anders Vassenden

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Yige Dong (POSTPONED DUE TO STRIKE)

Generic becoming: anthropology and the non-specific

Everywhere and nowhere, the “generic” is discarded as the copy, the knock-off, the old and overgeneralized. In this talk, Scott MacLochlainn discusses how it is instead remarkably neglected as a concept within anthropology and social theory.

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Chris Thorpe

RACE.ED and EREN: Race vs. The Human

Join us for this Edinburgh Race Equality Network (EREN) and RACE.ED co-hosted seminar examining the self and the body in relation to coloniality and the decolonial world.

Set Up to Fail: Challenging the Origin-Based Label Panacea with Peruvian Quinoa (FRIED seminar)

Over the past decade, the use of origin-based labels for agricultural products has expanded dramatically both in represented geographies and in sheer quantity. This talk, however, analyzes an example of a origin-based label project that failed to come to fruition.

SPS Exploratory Lunch: Open Social Science

This session will explore the opportunities and challenges raised by open research for quantitative and qualitative research.