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 engagement with minority issues.
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Season 5 / Episode 2
In this episode, Evgeniya Pakhomova, a social anthropologist specialising in Russian antiwar activism, interviews Lana Pylaeva, an indigenous activist from the republic of Komi and director of regional media Komi.Daily. Evgeniya presents the context for the new wave of Indigenous activism that emerged in response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, while
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Season 5 / Episode 1
In this episode of the CMR Podcast, Esther Zitterl (PhD researcher in Black British literature and the Windrush legacy, School of English, University of St Andrews) speaks with novelist Dr Ashley Hickson-Lovence about his 2026 novella About to Fall Apart (Faber). Told in verse across three days, the book follows Aidy — a man of mixed Irish-Caribbean
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My Life In… Podcast | Episode 3
The third episode of My Life In…, the podcast from the Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) is out now! In this episode, Dr Alasdair Gordon-Gibson, Honorary Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, speaks with David Horobin, Senior Crisis Management Advisor at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, about his extensive experience in humanitarian response and
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