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 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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Congratulations to Dr. Débora Rodrigues on her doctoral viva
We at the Centre for Minorities Research are delighted to share the wonderful news that Débora Rodrigues Azevedo Silva has successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (PPGE/FaE/UFMG). Her thesis, Justiça Epistêmica: A Produção Acadêmica de Intelectuais Indígenas e Quilombolas (Epistemic Justice: The Academic Production of Indigenous and Quilombola Intellectuals), makes a
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