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 2 / Episode 5
Reconnecting Heritage: Repatriation and Museums This CMR episode is in collaboration with Two Friends Talk History podcast, hosted and produced by Zofia Guertin, a PhD Candidate in the School of Classics. In this episode Zofia interviews Dr Barbara Winter to discuss how indigenous artefacts have traditionally been collected and displayed in western Canada. This discussion touches on the
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Episode 4 / Season 2
Diversity in Green Film: A conversation with the Green Film Festival In this episode, Erica Ostlander, an undergraduate in Film Studies and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, discusses the importance of upholding diversity in Hollywood, particularly in the realm of environmental cinema. Working as Co-director of the Green Film Festival alongside Tristan Sharman,
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Episode 3 / Season 2
In this episode, listen to St. Andrews History PhD student, Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart, as they tell the forgotten life story of the Greatest Man from the Smallest County in all of England, Jeffrey Hudson. As a young boy of only 1 1/2 foot tall, at the age of 7 his life changed forever when Charles I
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