School of Social and Political Science

Central eating: Application of diet quality scoring approaches to evaluate holiday club food provision

This seminar describes recent work undertaken in collaboration with Northumbria University’s Healthy Living Lab to evaluate the quality of food in holiday clubs in England.

Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Visiting Scholar Lecture: Process tracing methods in comparative public policy and European Union studies

With Bruno Palier, CNRS Research Director at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po

SKAPE seminar: The financial ontology of the anthropocene: a provocation

We are excited to welcome Julius Kob (University of Edinburgh) for our final talk in this semester’s SKAPE seminar series.

Who Will Cook for Joseph? Difficult Kinship, Ambivalent Mobilities, and Uncertain Devotions in the Central Philippines

This seminar recounts a key aspect of the tragedy of social mobility in post-1945 Philippines: how it’s endangered some children’s ability to repay their parents in later life.

Projecting sovereignty 'not yet': On the political potency of photography in Kurdistan

Join guest speaker Dr Marlene Schäfers for an exploration of the significance of photos of fallen guerrilla fighters for Kurdish liberation.

Book launch: The Invisible Palestinians by Andreas Hackl

Join us for the launch of a new book - The Invisible Palestinians - by social anthropologist Andreas Hackl, which uncovers the hidden lives and struggles of Palestinians in Jewish Israeli Tel Aviv.

A-Model: Model Assemblages, A-Contextual Data, and Organism Agnosticism

Cancelled: 'End the bloody projects!' - Learning liberation pedagogy and progress with permaculture youth camps in Timor-Leste

This event has been cancelled due to industrial action.

SKAPE Covid Roundtable II: The status of evidence in non-pharmaceutical interventions

We look forward to hosting the second panel discussion in our SKAPE roundtable series on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Smart Cities and African Urbanism: Through the Lens of Nairobi, Kenya

Discussions that Divide: Selective Avoidance and Uncivil Conversations on Facebook and WhatsApp

This event, with Patricia Rossini of the University of Glasgow, is part of the Politics in Contested Times Seminar Series.

Book launch: No Other Planet - Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World