This summer, works by five former Fellows will be featured at festivals in Edinburgh, including the International Festival, Book Festival and Festival Fringe. Tickets are available now for all events.
Edinburgh International Festival:
The Best of Centuries or the Worst of Centuries?
We are delighted to present the expanded version of Professor Lord Stern's recent Fulbright Legacy Lecture, entitled The best of centuries or the worst of centuries? Leadership, governance and cohesion in an interdependent world. The lecture was given at the University of Edinburgh on Wednesday 6th June 2018, and was chaired by the Principal, Professor Peter Mathieson.
Addressing Methodological Challenges: A New Approach to Tracing Participation Patterns in Online Writing
Alecia Marie Magnifico (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Jen Scott Curwood (University of Sydney, Australia)
Jayne C. Lammers (University of Rochester, USA)
Wednesday 4th July, Paterson’s Land rm 1.26, 12-2pm
Sociology and Climate Change after Kyoto: What Roles for Social Science in Understanding Climate Change? was the most cited article in 2009 & 2010 and is now free to access in perpetuity
Steve's main articles in refereed journals:
The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology (London: Sage 2006) - With over 1000 entries on key concepts and theorists, The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology provides full coverage of the field, clarifying the technical use of apparently common words, explaining the fundamental concepts in candid and entertaining ways, and introducing new and unfamiliar terms.
At present Steve is dividing his time between IASH (Link) and the STIS subject area. Overall, he is focusing on four types of research.
In his role at IASH, Steve is involved in directing the institute and in promoting the work conducted there by post-doctoral and early-career fellows and by the numerous academic visitors. He has overall responsibility for the academic direction of IASH and is centrally involved in its thematic focus areas: environmental humanities, medical humanities and digital humanities.
Steve Yearley
Director of IASH, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities 2017 - 2022
Professor of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
MA (Cantab & Oxon), PhD (York), FRSE
Steve Yearley was the Director of IASH from 2017 to 2022, and holds the Chair in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge in STIS, the subject area of “Science, Technology and Innovation Studies”.
Dr Virginia Langum, Umeå University, Sweden
Visiting Research Fellow, October 2018 to March 2019.
Project title: Changing Climates, Moving Minds
This study examines the representation of the inter‐relationship of migration with spiritual and mental health in literature until the early twentieth‐century. In addition to literature, it will examine relevant discussions in media, psychology, philosophy and climate science.
Dr Cheryl Lancaster (Durham University)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, September 2018 to June 2019.
Project: Edinburgh’s Animals’ Scientific Heritage: How Embryology and Genetics Inform Agricultural and Livestock Research
Dr Aphra Kerr
Home Institution: Maynooth University, Ireland
SSPS / Digital Scholarship Fellow, February - May 2019
Project: Data Intermediaries, Data Work & Data Inequalities: Towards Socially Responsible Data Driven Innovation