May 2026

Book Launch: "The Fallen" by Louise Brangan

Event date: 
Wednesday 24 June 2026
Time: 
17:00-19:00
Location: 
Seminar room, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

Join us to celebrate the release of "The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries & Ireland's Legacy of Shame", a new book by Louise Brangan.

A Man Leaning on a Parapet, by Georges Seurat - a pointillist painting

Peopling A Nation: Migration and Identity

Event date: 
Tuesday 23 June 2026
Time: 
16:00-17:00
Location: 
IASH Seminar Room, first floor, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW and online via Teams

A panel with Vanessa MontesiAlexandrine Boudreault-Fournier and Emily Clifford. This event explores borders, trafficking, family migration and diasporas to discuss how nationhood and identity are formed and negotiated by those who have come from outside the UK. What does ‘nation’ mean, a decade on from the Brexit referendum?

Dr Mary Hanlon

Dr Mary Hanlon

Visiting Research Fellow, May - June 2026

Mary Hanlon is a College Professor in Sociology at Okanagan College in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. She has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in Sociology. Her research portfolio spans two distinct yet interrelated and interdisciplinary streams: (1) labour rights in the global fashion and apparel industry; and (2) ‘DIY Academic Archives’ (critical open-access data-sharing websites) that challenge conventional methods in qualitative research across the social sciences.

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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