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Professor Gearoid Millar appointed to EU COST Action Management Committee
Professor Gearoid Millar has been appointed to the EU COST Action Management Committee that works to develop and better link up the Peace Research Community Europe (PEACE). Through the network, support is provided for peace and conflict researchers in developing their careers, including through a four-year interdisciplinary networking grant. Professor Millar is one...
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Professor Gearoid Millar awarded RSE Personal Research Fellowship
Professor Gearoid Millar has been awarded a Personal Research Fellowship by The Royal Society of Edinburgh in recognition of his exceptional research project, entitled ‘21st Century Peace Work: Facing Complex Challenges’. Against the backdrop of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine two years later, the proliferation of AI...
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Professor Gearoid Millar co-authors paper in Qualitative Research
Professor Gearoid Millar's latest co-authored article has been published in the journal, Qualitative Research. The study, entitled, 'Participatory action research in neoliberal academia: An uphill struggle', is co-authored with Matías Volonterio (University of Cambridge), Dr Lídia Cabral (Institute for Development Studies), Dr Iva Peša (University of Groningen), and Dr Melanie Levick-Parkin (Sheffield-Hallam University). In the paper, the authors share their experiences...
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Professor Gearoid Millar to deliver BISA paper
Professor Gearoid Millar will deliver a paper at this year's annual conference of the British International Studies Association, to be held at the University of Birmingham between June 5-7. Under the theme, Everyday Peace and Lingering Violence, panellists will discuss the strategies that communities and social organizations are using to overcome obstacles,...
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Professor Gearoid Millar shares research at ISA 2024
Professor Gearoid Millar will share two papers, serve as a discussant on two panels, and chair one panel at the 65th International Studies Association Annual Convention, in San Francisco. Held between April 3 and 6, this year's conference theme is, Putting Relationality at the Centre of International Studies. Responding to this, Prof. Millar's...
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Professor Wallace and Dr Garrison post findings on tourism content creation
Professor Claire Wallace and Dr Stephanie Garrison have published an online article exploring the boundaries between lifestyle and business in tourism content creation work. Entitled, 'What tourism content creators tell us about the future of work', the piece is posted on Digit Blog, and is drawn from a broader study at the Digital...
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Dr Andrew McKinnon to deliver invited talk at Edinburgh
Dr Andrew McKinnon will deliver an invited, hybrid talk at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh on March 6. In his paper, entitled 'Shailer Mathews’ Historical Sociology of God: Metaphors of the Divine and the Social Imaginary' Dr McKinnon will consider the questions, 'how does religion operate...
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Dr Luisa Gandolfo to deliver invited talk at Edinburgh
Dr Luisa Gandolfo will give a talk at the University of Edinburgh as part of the Decolonising the Curriculum in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies seminar series, on January 30. During her talk, entitled 'Political Cartography and the Dynamic Archive', Luisa will consider how we use countermaps as pedagogical and research tools,...
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Prof. Gearoid Millar publishes new chapter 'The Long-Term Legacies of Transitional Justice'
Professor Gearoid Millar has published a chapter, entitled 'The Long-Term Legacies of Transitional Justice: Understanding the Paradox of Peace in Sierra Leone', in the collection, Truth Commissions and State Building. Edited by Professor Bonny Ibhawoh (McMaster University), Dr Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno (University for Development Studies), and Dr Sylvia Bawa (York University), the volume,...
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Prof. Gearoid Millar publishes new article: 'Responding to "The Greats"'
Professor Gearoid Millar has published a new article entitled 'Responding to “The Greats”: A Problematic Lack of Tension', in Civil Wars. Reflecting on Oliver P. Richmond's articles, 'On the ‘greats’ and peace: part one: towards an international peace architecture' (2023) and 'On the ‘greats’ and peace: part two: the internal and...