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.
Latest
-
Inaugural Episode
In the inaugural episode, Camila Marinelli, a second-year doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, is joined by Dr Ankur Datta, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the South Asian University. Taking the lead from the term ‘displacement’, Camila and Ankur discuss Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir, India. They talk about mental health
-
Futures in Post-displacement Italy
Please join us for a one-day workshop to plan/discuss the papers for a special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies that is being edited by CMR directors Stavroula Pipyrou and Emma Bond When: December 18th, 2020; 2pm-5pm (UK) / 3pm-6pm (Italy) / 9am-12pm (EST) Where: Teams
-
Twitter as a new arena for political debates
By Evgeniya Pakhomova Due to the unprecedented number of postal ballots, the 2020 United States Presidential election turned into a nerve-racking one-week-long event. Competition in several key states was down to decimal fractions of a percent. As the first night of vote counting was coming to an end, it became crystal clear that the claims
Centre for Minorities Research, University of St Andrews