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Dr Gearoid Millar to Deliver Talk on Legitimacy
Dr Gearoid Millar will be delivering a talk on Thursday, January 9, at the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society, and Rule of Law (CISRUL). The workshop, Approaches to Political Concepts II, will be held on January 9 and 10, and include discussions on 'Free Speech', by Dr Helen Lynch, 'Belling the...
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Aberdeen Art Gallery opens after £35 million refurbishment
A stunning central atrium with ionic columns made from Scottish and Norwegian quarries welcomes visitors upon entrance into the newly restored Aberdeen Art Gallery. The gallery is a must see for all students in the social sciences with a variety of exhibits from different time periods. Anthropology students may be interested...
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PhD student, Krzys Adamczyk, is interviewed by two newspapers and receives a prestigious grant
On the 5th of November, PhD student Krzys Adamczyk co-hosted a Festival of Social Science talk ‘The Aberdeen Children of the 1950s: Health, Wealth and Happiness’. Together with Dr Marjorie Johnston, Krzys talked about the history and design of the cohort as well as his research on social mobility and...
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The ESRC Festival of Social Science begins!
The ESRC Festival of Social Science, organised by the 黑料网, began with a talk by Ph.D. student Stephanie Garrison entitled 'Outlander Fandoms' at the Aberdeen Central Library. Her talk explored Scottish identity, the production of the historical drama Outlander, and what it means to be a fan of...
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Professor Claire Wallace to Deliver Invited Lecture at Villa Vigoni
This week, Professor Claire Wallace will be presenting an invited paper at the Social Indicators Monitoring Seminar at the Villa Vigoni on Lake Como in Italy. The seminar, entitled Weakening Social Cohesion in Europe? Indicators, Analysis and Policy Implications focuses on her paper, 'Changing Patterns of Trust in Europe'. Using the World Values Survey,...
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Dr Lynn Bennie speaks to PIR Society
Dr Lynn Bennie gave a talk for the Politics and International Relations Society on Monday 7 October on the topic of the Brexit and the current constitutional and party dilemmas presented by the debate.
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Dr Gearoid Millar to share Leverhulme Research Fellowship findings at the University of Notre Dame
Dr Gearoid Millar will deliver the preliminary findings from his Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2018/2019) at the interdisciplinary conference, Building Sustainable Peace: Ideas, Evidence, and Strategies, to be held on November 8-10, at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, at the University of Notre Dame. The conference will focus on four...
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New Article by Dr Christopher Kollmeyer: Financialization and the Decline of Organized Labor
Dr Christopher Kollmeyer's work on the decline of trade union participation appears as the lead article in the most recent issue of Social Forces.
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Congratulations for PhD success
Two candidates affiliated to the School of Social Science have recently, after their viva voce examinations, had their PhDs confirmed. Domenico Carolei successfully defended his PhD thesis (pending minor corrections) with a thesis titled ‘A Study of the Effectiveness of Civil Society Self Regulation and on Beneficiary Accountability – the Case...
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Professor Alison Brown spends two weeks in Washington DC as a Visiting Faculty member
Professor Alison Brown from the School of Social Science spent two weeks in Washington DC this July as a Visiting Faculty member for the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA), a research training programme offered by the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and...