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Krzys Adamczyk appears on BBC's Class Wars
Krzys Adamczyk, an ESRC doctoral researcher in Sociology, has appeared on BBC Scotland's Class Wars. Hosted by Darren McGarvey, the four part series looks at how class shapes different facets of our daily lives, including our identities, where we live, power, and the long-term impact of social class on our lives. Given...
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Dr Gearoid Millar, Dr Sukanya Podder to present a paper at the PCSJ Conference
This week, Dr Gearoid Millar and Dr Sukanya Podder (King’s College London) will present a paper at the online Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference. Their paper, entitled 'Indigenous monitoring and evaluation: Assessing local impacts of peace practice', looks at the existing practices of indigenous ceasefire monitoring and considers how this can provide the...
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Dr Gearoid Millar to Deliver Paper at the University of Hamburg
Dr Gearoid Millar will deliver a paper later this week at the online workshop, Studying Everyday Order and Peace from the Ground up: An Interregional and Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Peace Formation in Central Eurasia, convened by the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg and...
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Dr Gearoid Millar Publishes New Article in the Journal of Peace Research
Dr Gearoid Millar has published his latest article, 'Ambition and ambivalence: Reconsidering positive peace as a trans-scalar peace system', in the Journal of Peace Research. In his fourth piece for the journal, he looks back on the discourse of positive peace between 1970-2020, and traces the shift towards an ambivalent perspective...
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Dr Malcolm Harvey talks about the constitution
Dr Malcolm Harvey, from the School's Department of Politics and International Relations, provided an online event for the university's Alumni Association's recent event series. The event - "How Have Recent Events Shaped the UK's Constitutional Debate?" - was recorded and is now available to view on YouTube.
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Dr Natasha Danilova reports on Carnegie Trust project
Dr Natasha Danilova, from the School's Politics and International Relations department, has used a series of recent online events to disseminate research from her Carnegie Trust-funded project 'War Commemoration, Military Culture and Identity Politics in Scotland'. Dr Danilova, together with Dr Emma Dolan (formerly of the department, now University of Limerick)...
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Article by Dr Gearoid Millar Featured in Peace Science Digest
An article published by Dr Gearoid Millar has been featured in Peace Science Digest. 'Toward a trans-scalar peace system: challenging complex global conflict systems' was published in Peacebuilding earlier this year, and examines the ways that the discourse on peacebuilding has failed to respond adequately to critiques of peacebuilding practice. A project...
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Congratulations to the graduates and prize winners of 2020!
The School of Social Sciences would like to congratulate the entire graduating class of 2020 for their outstanding achievements and accomplishments over the course of their degrees. A special acknowledgement goes to the recipients of the departmental subject awards; Anthropology Hanna Louise: 'Most Successful Student in Anthropology' and also 'Best Anthropology Dissertation' (awarded...
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M.Litt Museum Studies Students Launch Virtual Museum Exhibition on "Safekeeping"
COVID-19 has radically transformed society, workplaces and even museums. Adapting in a 'new normal', University of Aberdeen's M.Litt in museum studies students launched their virtual exhibition on protection entitled: "Safekeeping". The link to this new exhibition can be found here. The exhibition's five sections consists of: 'Protecting the Self', 'Guarding Possessions',...
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Dr Samantha May wins Teaching Award
A second consecutive 'Best Undergraduate Supervisor' Award for Dr May.