Dr Jack Abernethy
Dr Jack Abernethy
National Museums Scotland Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2025 – June 2026
Home Institution: University of St Andrews
Dr Jack Abernethy
National Museums Scotland Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2025 – June 2026
Home Institution: University of St Andrews
IASH is part of Doors Open Day 2025, Scotland's largest free festival that celebrates places and stories, new and old.
The Institute will welcome visitors on Saturday 27 September (10:00-16:00) for Doors Open Day 2025 - drop-in, no booking required. More than 60 people visited for DOD in 2024.
The Institute presents our annual report for academic year 2024-25. Features include a spotlight on artist practitioners at IASH, reports from GENDER.ED and the Decolonised Transformations Project, a calendar of our events over the past year, a full list of Fellows and Affiliates, and much more. You can download the digital version as a PDF here.
Thanks to Bill Walsh at Wing Design for the graphic design of this report.
The search is on for the next IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow, with applications now officially open for the 2026 residency, a unique opportunity for writers and theatre-makers to develop bold new work at the intersection of research and storytelling.
Former Fellow Dr Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez writes for The Conversation on lucid dreaming, consciousness research and what it means to be conscious.
Join us to celebrate culture, community & connection in Boghall, with an evening of Ethio-Eritrean music, performances, food and coffee ceremony.
A special event marking the conclusion of Dr Nina Baratti's project at IASH on the Jean Jenkins Ethiopian and Eritrean Sound Collection in the National Museum of Scotland.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor S. Karly Kehoe (Visiting Research Fellow, 2025)
Activating Colonial Privilege: The Imperial Strategies of Highland Catholics, 1750-1820
Dr Toufic Haddad
IASH-SSPS Research Fellow, September, 2025 - June, 2026
Deputy Director Ben Fletcher-Watson and IASH Director Lesley McAra have written an opinion piece for WonkHE about the role of Institutes of Advanced Study in offering academic asylum.
From Singapore and Australia to Norway and Belgium, governments and individual universities around the globe are seizing the opportunity to attract the top American minds. For scholars fearful of their government’s policy direction on academic freedom, such as those working in gender studies, on vaccine research or climate change, the situation is urgent.