April 2026

Book Launch: "Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction" & "It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School"

Event date: 
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Time: 
15:00-17:00
Location: 
Room 1.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute

The Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre (SMRC) is delighted to be holding a double book launch on Wednesday 6 May 2026, 3pm – 5pm, co-sponsored by the Disabled Staff Network.

• It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School – edited by Rachael Davis, Claire O’Neill, and Sue Fletcher-Watson, and published by Routledge.

Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction – written by IASH alumnus Robert Chapman and Sue Fletcher-Watson, and published by Oxford University Press.

Dr Divya Kannan

Dr Divya Kannan

IASH-CWIT Fellow, May - July, 2026

Home institution: Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR

Dr. Divya Kannan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology, Shiv Nadar-University Delhi-NCR India. Her research interests are 19th and 20th South Asian history, childhood and youth studies, gender, empires, and education. She is also the co-founder and co-convenor of the online Critical

Constituting A Nation: Scots and 1776

Event date: 
Tuesday 26 May 2026
Time: 
16:00-17:00
Location: 
IASH Seminar Room, first floor, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW and online

A panel featuring Geoffrey Gorham, Deborah Cohn and Maeve Callan, chaired by Frank Cogliano, to mark the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. A number of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were Scottish emigrants or descended from Scots, but Scots also formed a large part of Britain’s army in the Revolutionary War.

Steve Yearley to deliver the inaugural Trevor Pinch Memorial Lecture

Professor Steve Yearley

Professor Steven Yearley, former IASH Director and current Fellow of IASH, will inaugurate a prestigious new international lecture series at Cornell University in the USA, delivering his talk on Earth Day, 22 April 2026.

Steve – who is Professor of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge in the School of Social and Political Science – will give the opening lecture in the Trevor Pinch Memorial Lecture Series for Innovative Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences.