School of Social and Political Science

CAS Seminar - The Uncommon Sense of Biogas: Waste, Ethics, & Good Energy in Off-Grid Tanzania

CAS Seminar Series - The Uncommon Sense of Biogas: Waste, Ethics, & Good Energy in Off-Grid Tanzania

Families and Food in Hard Times: European Comparative Research

Drawing on her recently published book of the same name (co-authored with Professor Julia Brannen) Dr Rebecca O'Connell will introduce the Families and Food in Hard Times project and explain how it conceptualised food poverty in wealthy societies, She will also discuss the study’s design and focus on households as resource units, and share some findings and recommendations.

The Place of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

In this seminar, Dr Charlotte Brookfield will discuss the identity and learning journey of quantitative social scientists in the UK.

Energy Futures, Data Ends: An Islands Speculative Fabulation

Israeli Foreign Policy Since the End of the Cold War (Book Launch)

The Contemporary Middle East Series, brings together scholars and practitioners with expertise on the Middle East to share their experience and work in a series of public lectures.

The series is convened by the Middle East Research Group within the Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Tod Van Gunten

CAS Seminar - A distributional impasse: Why conflict persists in South Africa’s rural mining frontier?

CAS Seminar Series - A distributional impasse: Why conflict persists in South Africa’s rural mining frontier?

PIR Book Launch: IR in a Post-Truth World

Questions of truth and expertise are at the forefront of global political debates, such that it is common to speak of a ‘post-truth’ world and a backlash against ‘expert’ knowledge. From Brexit to climate change, from the Syrian civil war to Covid-19, established ‘truths’ and conventional wisdoms have become the subject of bitter and fierce controversy. What does this mean for scholars of International Relations...

Exploratory Lunch: Environmental Sustainability

In this workshop, we bring together colleagues from across the School of Social and Political Science working on sustainability to discuss the possibility of building an Environmental Sustainability Network.

Social Anthropology Seminar: Science-in-Vivo: Experiments with Microbes for the Philippines' 'Bananapocalypse'

Fusarium Wilt Tropical Race Four is a deadly soil-borne fungal disease that has stumped the global banana industry. While pesticides are systematically employed to control the spread of disease on plantations, the failures to develop a chemical control for Fusarium Wilt has exposed the paradigm limits of conventional agricultural science.

CAS Seminar - African Astronomy, Astronomy in Africa

CAS Seminar Series - African Astronomy, Astronomy in Africa

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Nora Waitkus