Past events
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HCRI Landmark Lecture 2025 - Intersectional Beginnings and Abolitionist Endings: On the Urgency of Critical Theories in Humanitarian Studies and Practice'
16:00 - 17:30 19 November 2025
The Lecture, drawing on critical concepts from Black feminist thought and postcolonial and critical race theories, provides an intersectional analysis of humanitarian intervention based on more than 15 years of ethnographic fieldwork around the world--including interviews with UN peacekeepers, humanitarian...
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GDI Lecture: Fettered Development and Political Turmoil: 15 Years Since the Arab Spring, Gilbert Achcar
16:30 - 18:00 19 November 2025
Speaker: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS The political landscape in the MENA region looks bleaker today than ever before. This is in sharp contrast with the euphoria aroused fifteen years ago by the 2011 revolutionary shockwave commonly known as the Arab Spring. Two years into that shockwave, regional political...
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Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper for the Social Sciences Workshop
10:00 - 16:00 18 November 2025
This workshop introduces the Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper algorithm as a model free tool for visualising data and is led by Dr Simon Rudkin. Dr Rudkin is a member of the University of Manchester's Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMI) and his work has pioneered application of Ball...
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Data in the spotlight: Large scale social surveys
10:00 - 11:30 18 November 2025
Did you know that data from major social surveys such as the British Social Attitudes survey, the Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England can be accessed for research and teaching? These UK surveys provide a rich source of data from representative samples on important social and economic...
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Best practices for documenting social sciences research data
10:00 - 11:30 17 November 2025
Data documentation is essential to make sure that well-organised and well-documented research data can be produced from our research projects. This workshop provides an overview of different types of documentation depending on data type (e.g. primary or secondary, survey or transcripts), as an essential...
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