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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...

Dr. Mustafa Khedewi, a recent doctoral graduate of the School of Social Science, was awarded a 2,000 GBP award from the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES). Mustafa's own research interests include religious institutions and democratisation theory, securitisation theory, Islamic political thought and political transformations in the Arab World. The BRISMES Early Career...

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...

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...

Dr Malcolm Harvey was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to conduct a teaching and research exchange at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, USA. With a research background in constitutional politics and a teaching interest in US politics, Dr Harvey combined both during his spring semester at Villanova - guest lecturing across a...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

Congratulations to Kirsty Kernohan, PhD student in Anthropology, who has received the Alfred Truckell Prize from the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society (DGNHAS) for her article 'Dr Werner Kissling as an ethnographer of Dumfriesshire and Galloway'. The article will be published in the 2021 volume of the DGNHAS...