May 2026

Critical Approaches to Open Qualitative Data

Event date: 
Thursday 25 June 2026
Time: 
10:00-16:00
Location: 
Seminar room, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

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This one-day workshop explores critical, creative and practice-based approaches to archiving and sharing qualitative data.

This one-day workshop, Critical Approaches to Open Qualitative Data: Archiving, Practices and Possibilities, explores critical, creative, and practice-based approaches to archiving and sharing qualitative data in the humanities and social sciences.

Professor Soledad Garcia Ferrari

Soledad Garcia Ferrari is Professor of Global Urbanism and Resilience and Dean International for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, where she leads strategic development around research, innovation and education. Professionally qualified in Architecture and Urbanism in Uruguay, Soledad has extensive expertise in sustainable urban planning in Latin American cities, with a focus on community-empowerment, participatory and co-creation processes, towards increasing resilience and adaptation to climate c

From Fellow to Future: Talk 1

Event date: 
Thursday 21 May 2026
Time: 
15:00-15:30
Location: 
Online-only

A series of curated conversations offering twin perspectives on early-career support at university based Institutes for Advanced Studies (UBIAS)

Talk 1: Recruitment & Onboarding, 21 May 2026, 15:00-15:30 BST / 16:00-16:30 CET

A short seminar discussing how Institutes of Advanced Study advertise and select Fellows, and how they are welcomed into a new research community on arrival.

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Narratives of the Future II

Event date: 
Friday 12 June 2026
Time: 
13:30-15:30
Location: 
Seminar room, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

Explore how we imagine the future through literary, cultural and political perspectives, and how narratives shape today’s global challenges.

Javad Daraei

"The Strikers" by Javad Daraei

Event date: 
Tuesday 16 June 2026
Time: 
16:30-18:00
Location: 
Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow G5 9DS

The Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, as part of Refugee Festival Scotland 2026, presents a work-in-progress reading of Strikers, a new play written and directed by former IASH Fellow Javad Daraei. The play explores labour, displacement, dignity, and resistance through stories shaped by lived experiences of survival and exile. Book tickets here.