School of Social and Political Science

Establishing trauma-informed services for people exploited by trafficking

The History of Statistics and the Sciences of Subjectivity

Reimagining Platforms

Reimagining Platforms is a one-day symposium that will bring academics and community and local partners together to develop methods and concepts to analyse the different futures and possibilities of platforms and platform economies

Patchwork Ethnography

CRITIQUE-Open Government Partnership Scotland Event: What Next For Democracy?

Book Launch - Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania and Beyond

SKAPE seminar: Materiality, policy and power in advertising markets: ad servers and header bidding

We are excited to welcome Donald MacKenzie (Sociology, University of Edinburgh) who will deliver the second talk in this year’s SKAPE seminar series.

W. E. B. Du Bois and his Strange Synthesis of Spirituality and Sociology

Seminar with Matthew W. Hughey (University of Connecticut, USA), Co-hosted by Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and Sociology at The University of Edinburgh

Hybrid Event (In person and via Zoom options available)

CRITIQUE-PTRG Seminar: Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity

Translating Food Sovereignty: Knowledge, Networks, and the Ethnography of Transnational Governance

Women’s life course trajectories to a non-conjugal family: couple norm and beyond

Join this CRFR seminar for a presentation, Q&A and discussion on women living with children outside of heterosexual partners in Finland. To what extent does the couple norm reflect women’s life trajectories in contemporary Finnish society? What led to women’s departures from heterosexual marriage? To what extent is motherhood a deliberate choice for women in Finland, or are pathways to reproduction more plural?

The Maldives in Medieval Global Networks: Connections to Africa (and Other Places)