School of Social and Political Science

Latin American and Caribbean Music

The first event in this year's Researching Latin America series

Poverty and stigma – the elephants in the room for lone parents

This is the inaugural lecture in the new annual lecture series in memory of Julie-Ann Macqueen, an alumna of the Diploma in Social Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

This lecture is delivered by Prof. Morag Treanor and looks at two key issues affecting lone parents: poverty and stigma. These issues have been around for a long time and, in spite of the work to advance the outcomes of lone parents and their children, continue to be the elephants in the room of policy and practice.

The Future of Children's Care, Critical Perspectives on Children's Services

Social Work seminar following the book launch for The Future of Children's Care, Critical Perspectives on Children's Services Reform edited by Robin Sen and Christian Kerr.

The Global Politics of African Identity: Pan-Africanism and the Challenge of Afropolitanism

This is the third seminar in the CAS Seminar Series for 2023/2024.

Grounding Critical Theory through Critical-Popular Research

In this pre-read seminar, Prof. Paul Apostolidis (LSE) will discuss his forthcoming chapter,  ‘Grounding Critical Theory through Critical-Popular Research’, which considers the relationship between critical social theory and empirical fieldwork.

The Politics of Self-Determination

Yves-François Blanchet, Member of Parliament (Canada) and leader of the Bloc Québécois

Disenfranchised Grief in the Disenfranchised

This seminar will highlight how the drivers of disenfranchised grief for young people in prison are located across multiple systems.

Meet the Research Training Centre team

Come and meet the Research Training Centre team

Politics in Contested Times: Rwanda Before the Genocide

Please join us for the first lecture of the Politics in Contested Time Lecture series where Associate Professor Marie-Eve Desrosiers joins us from the Graduate School in Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa for a talk titled, "Rwanda Before the Genocide The Ordinary and Bottom-Up Building and Unravelling of Authoritarian Regimes".

Rüpü: the long road of the Mapuche Movement, 1910-2020

In this talk, we’ll be exploring the history of the Mapuche movement’s efforts and strategies over many decades to reverse colonialism and empower itself.

The Mapuche Movement and Chile’s Constitutional Reform

This talk will address the impact of Chile’s recent “estallido social”, a social uprising which in ways took the form of an anti-colonial revolt, with the toppling of monuments that recall the violence of colonialism on the Mapuche.

Breastfeeding endeavours in socio-experiential context