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Dr Gearoid Millar to co-Host Peace and Conflict Studies Workshop
Dr Gearoid Millar will co-host, with Professor Cedric de Coning (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), a two-day online workshop, entitled Complex Systems Research in Peace and Conflict Studies. The event, which is open to the public, will be held between September 2-3, convenes 16 peace and conflict scholars, practitioners, and pracademics to discuss new...
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Dr Isabella Kasselstrand delivers paper at BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
Dr Isabella Kasselstrand has delivered a paper at the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Study Group. Established more than 40 years ago, the internationally recognised Study Group is a hub of research, discussion, and support to researchers on contemporary religious issues. Dr Kasselstrand's paper, entitled '"There’s Football on Sunday Mornings and Life...
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Dr Isabella Kasselstrand delivers paper at the International Society for the Sociology of Religion
Dr Isabella Kasselstrand has delivered a paper at the 36th International Society for the Sociology of Religion Conference. Guided by the theme Religion in Global/Local Perspectives: Diffusion, Migration, Transformation, the conference took place between July 12-15, and while it was due to be hosted in Taipei, it was moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Kasselstrand's...
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Dr Gearoid Millar to present paper at Environment and Conflict symposium
Dr Gearoid Millar will deliver a paper at the online symposium, Environment and Conflict, hosted by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies at Liverpool Hope University, on July 12. The symposium will open with keynotes by Professor Malcolm Miles and Professor John Vogler, who will discuss the...
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Dr Isabella Kasselstrand delivers paper at NSRN Conference
Dr Isabella Kasselstrand has delivered a paper, entitled 'Religious Decline since the Church-State Separation in Sweden' at the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN) annual conference. Hosted online by the University of Ottawa, the Network was founded in 2008 with a view to centralising research on nonreligion and secularity, and providing...
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Dr Gearoid Millar to deliver chapter at University of Strathclyde
Dr Gearoid Millar has been invited to share his latest chapter at the 5th Annual Postgraduate Law Conference, Reimagining Justice and Ethnography, at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on April 29 and 30. Speaking at the virtual conference, Dr Millar will deliver the chapter, 'The Long-Term Legacies of Transitional Justice:...
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Dr Marta Trzebiatowska interviewed by Deseret News
Dr Marta Trzebiatowska has been interviewed by the long-running Utah-based Deseret News on women's relationship with faith. Speaking to Mya Jaradat, Dr Trzebiatowska addressed the question, 'Is the future of faith female?' The answer, she replied, is shaped by multiple social aspects, but particularly the roles that women assume over their lifetime. "The...
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Dr Gearoid Millar secures British Academy Collaborative Action-Research Project
Dr Gearoid Millar has secured a British Academy action-research grant, in collaboration with Dr Lidia Cabral (Institute of Development Studies), Dr Melanie Levick-Parkin (Sheffield Hallam University), and Dr Iva Pesa (University of Groningen). The interdisciplinary project, entitled Just Food?, runs from April 2021 to March 2022 and will create a mutual...
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Dr Christopher Kollmeyer awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
Dr Christopher Kollmeyer has been awarded a Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust. The award funds a one-year research sabbatical to undertake a substantial study on whether economic globalisation promotes civil peace in developing countries. The project, Does Global Capitalism Promote Civil Peace in Developing Countries?, draws on Dr Kollmeyer’s considerable experience...
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Dr Luisa Gandolfo Publishes Article in the Journal of International Migration and Integration
Dr Luisa Gandolfo has published an article, entitled 'Navigating Trust and Distrust in the Refugee Community of Malta', in the Journal of International Migration and Integration. Drawing on data gathered in Malta under the auspices of the Society for Libyan Studies, the article considers how different forms of trust and distrust are negotiated...