The Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) supports academic dialogue and real-time action on one of the most urgent global challenges of our time: achieving meaningful, intersectional engagement with vulnerable populations. Bringing together an outstanding team from across the University of St Andrews and beyond, CMR facilitates cutting-edge research, interdisciplinary debate, and knowledge application to promote empowerment and engagement with minority issues.
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Season 4 / Episode 3
How can museums, traditionally visual spaces, become more accessible to visually impaired audiences? In this episode, Renato Trotta, a PhD candidate in Museum and Gallery Studies, explores the tensions between ocularcentric institutions and the need for non-visual engagement. He shares insights from his interdisciplinary research, drawing from museology, social sciences, critical disability theory, and psychology.…
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New Publication by CMR Associate Sarah Edgcumbe
We are pleased to share a new article by Phd Candidate Sarah Edgcumbe, produced for Researching Internal Displacement’s Middle East Research Network on Internal Displacement (MERNID). The piece explores the challenges and complexities faced by returnee Iraqi Gypsies and Bedouin, emphasizing the urgent need for consultation with these communities on their protection and (re)integration needs. Drawing on research from 2021,…
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Reconciliation in a Fragmented World: Rethinking Justice, Accountability, and Inclusion
Join us on the latest CMR seminar series as we bring together scholars exploring the complexities of reconciliation in an era defined by intensive transformations. Amidst the chaos of the contemporary world—where the future paradoxically poses as both a source of hope and an abyss of uncertainty—reconciliation offers a potential framework for forging pathways towards…
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