The Institute is proud to announce Michael John O’Neill as the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow for 2025, a residency that will see him research and develop a new play for the Traverse Theatre, exploring the painful experience of losing someone to far-right ideologies. O’Neill’s Fellowship is the result of the Traverse’s continued partnership with IASH, which has run since 2010. Playwrights including Isla Cowan, Linda McLean, Peter Arnott and Apphia Campbell have been in residence over the past 15 years.
The Institute is pleased to announce a new Fellowship programme for 2025-26, centred on public engagement, research dissemination, outreach and knowledge exchange.
The Public Engagement Fellowship programme is aimed at postdoctoral researchers, typically up to three years post-PhD, who are seeking to develop their public engagement skills. If you are an early-career researcher with ideas for a bold, innovative, ambitious project with community-building at the heart, we would love to hear from you.
Applications are invited for the IASH Public Engagement Fellowship. This new programme is aimed at postdoctoral researchers, typically up to three years post-PhD, who are seeking to develop their public engagement skills. The Fellowship is self-directed, focusing on your own research, which must be within the arts, humanities or social sciences, or an associated interdisciplinary field such as medical humanities.
For further information about the Gender Equality: Transforming Leadership project, please contact:
Professor Lesley McAra, Principal Investigator
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and School of Law
University of Edinburgh
2 Hope Park Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9NW
Scotland
Email: lesley.mcara@ed.ac.uk
Direct line: +44 (0) 131 650 2036
It is recognised that colonial legacies may have a profound impact on women’s advancement and that social norms are closely bound up with cultural, religious and other structures of power and dominion. The network will aim to foreground epistemic justice and dialogical ethics in its approach to interviews, to the symposia, including bespoke workshops, and to its stakeholder engagement. What this means is that the activities of the network will aim to challenge the power imbalances that have led to the exclusion and silencing of particular forms of knowledge.
Three symposia are to be held during the course of the project: June, September and December 2025.
Further details, including programme and registration, will be posted here in due course.
IASH, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (website)
This collaborative project crosses three continents – Europe, Africa and Asia – to explore the barriers and enablers of women’s leadership in politics, education, and industry. It aims to understand why the 1979 United Nations Convention promoting the advancement and empowerment of women has consistently failed to meet its objectives, and what practical action is needed now to tackle deep-seated inequalities and breach the high glass ceilings that still exist in senior leadership.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Catherine Namono (African Fellow, 2024-25).
Digital applications for rock art conservation, education and tourism (DRACET): Makgabeng community heritage tourism, Limpopo Province, South Africa