Dr Radhika Govinda
Dr Radhika Govinda
Sabbatical Fellow, June - October 2026
Dr Radhika Govinda
Sabbatical Fellow, June - October 2026
Join us to celebrate the release of "The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries & Ireland's Legacy of Shame", a new book by Louise Brangan.
Dr Paula Sledzinska is an interdisciplinary researcher working in the field of Irish and Scottish Studies, and currently a Visiting Research Fellow at IASH. Her research centres on contemporary Scottish literature and theatre with a particular focus on the relationship between cultural representation, national storytelling, and democratic life.
A panel with Vanessa Montesi, Alexandrine 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?
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Martina Karels (IASH-SSPS Fellow, 2026)
From open data to feminist archiving: reimagining data sharing for the humanities and social sciences
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.
A host of performances by former IASH artists-in-residence will be taking place around Scotland in the next few months. A full list of Fringe performances will be posted separately in June.
Berwick Maltings, Berwick-upon-Tweed
30-31 May https://www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/lewis-hetherington-the-visitors/
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.
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
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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