Social and Political Sciences, School of
Established in 2001, the School brings together core social scientific disciplines to promote the critical understanding of social and political processes and the development of effective policy and practice through a wide range of teaching and research programmes. The School was formed from the departments (now subject groups) of Politics, Social Anthropology, Social Policy and Sociology; the Graduate School of Social and Political Studies; the Centres of African, Canadian and South Asian Studies; the Science Studies Unit, the Research Centre in Social Sciences and the Institute of Governance. It has recently been joined by Social Work, and now forms part of the College of Humanities and Social Science.
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Qualitative case study of local alcohol policy implementation in Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Background: Alcohol use is a major risk factor for ill-health and a contributor to health inequalities. Scottish alcohol-related mortality rates are the highest in the UK, with the greatest burden of alcohol-related ... -
Mama Mboga: exploring the continuity of micro retailers of fresh fruit and vegetables in Nairobi, Kenya
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Food retail in Africa is undergoing a dramatic transformation, threatening the existence of traditional retailing practices in urban metropoles. In particular, the issue of supermarket (SM) development is important ... -
Has something got to give? Tensions and opportunities in achieving both a UK social science doctorate and ESRC-specified research and skills training
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Social sciences research students in the UK have experienced major contextual changes to their doctoral studies over recent decades. Compared to minimal and piecemeal training received by doctoral students in the 1970s, ... -
Smart solar futures: politics and instability in off-grid electrification in Odisha, India
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis explores the politics and social structures surrounding community-scale, off-grid, solar PV micro-grids in eastern India. It offers a novel, synthetical perspective drawing on a situated, grounded and ... -
Evaluating small area population estimates and projection for sub-council areas in Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis is a collaborative research project with the National Records of Scotland and seeks to provide a fresh assessment of small area population estimates, and the first evaluation of small area population ... -
Asset manager capitalism? The influence of institutional investors on corporate governance and the varieties of capitalism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis considers the link between changes in the shareholder ownership structure and the governance of firms. Making use of extensive interview data it assesses the governance activities of asset managers in ... -
Još Hrvatska ni propala: [Still Croatia has not fallen]: examining the public face of memory in Croatia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis examines the “public face of memory,” the visual elements of cultural memory going beyond the simple structure of a statue or a plaque to tell a story about the politics of remembrance. The structure of ... -
Understanding the circular economy in Kenya
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Over the last decade the circular economy has become popular in the Global North and is beginning to gain traction in the Global South. Yet analysis of this sustainability concept is notably lacking in the Global South, ... -
Depth and breadth: a mixed-method investigation of disciplinary approaches to health inequalities and health disparities research
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This PhD thesis is an in-depth investigation of the ways academic disciplines shape scientific practice in health equity research, a sub-specialisation of population health. Whilst covering many contexts and aspects of ... -
Crop with no futures: explaining the absence of derivatives trading in the Rice Market
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis seeks to explain the near absence of derivative contracts in the rice market, in the light of these instruments’ prominence in other agricultural commodity markets. To do so, I compare rice with three of these ... -
Doing drugs policy: narratives of participation in the development of a critical drug theory
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Introduction It is a well-documented and a historical fact that human beings have ingested certain substances in order to change their perceptions of reality for centuries, if not millennia (RSA, 2007; Nutt, 2015; Bancroft, ... -
Money league, elite men’s football and rankings: an interpretive narrative
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The 2020, 23rd edition of the Deloitte Football Money League (DFML) opened with the headline that 'FC Barcelona reached the top of the money league for the first time and became the first club to break €800m revenue barrier'. ... -
Changing party system in Mexico (1970-1988)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This research analyses how profound economic and social transformations enable political change. It argues that those transformations lead to the renegotiation of the relationship between the state and civil society. Also, ... -
Finding virtue in open science? Biological scientists' constructions of openness in historical, advocacy and policy contexts
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Science has a special relationship with the term “open” and its connotations. A traditional story about scientific openness goes as follows: if scientists share their findings, scientific communities can collectively build ... -
Meaning of patient involvement and participation in Chinese hospitals
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Increased patient involvement and participation in health care is embraced by researchers and practitioners due to the benefits of improving health outcomes and safety, reducing cost and enhancing a democratic relationship ... -
One with others: care, stigma and the creative everyday of urban social space in Soacha, Colombia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis examines ways in which residents of one informal neighbourhood in Soacha, Colombia, are engaged in everyday struggles to navigate inequality, marginalisation and displacement. Similar to other informal ... -
Local governance of energy initiatives: struggles in assembling value
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Local Authorities are increasingly expected to meet UK 2050 net zero climate goals. However, they struggle to assemble investment for local energy and carbon saving projects. In this thesis I examine how valuation ... -
Relocating Malays: housing biographies, the State and multiracial nation-building in Singapore
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Singapore prides itself in being a model and world-class multiracial nation in which over 80% of its residents live in good public housing. Through a very particular system of ‘ownership,’ 90% of public housing residents ... -
Military and health innovations in clandestine warfare settings. Technical specialization and collective resourcefulness in the FARC-EP
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)There has been a rapid recent growth of academic interest in previously neglected processes of innovation at the margins, including contexts of illegality. These illegal margins represent remarkable breeding grounds ... -
“They have many chains to bind us”: state formation, foreign policy and the colonial pact in Mali, c.1958-2020
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis explores the formation and evolution of the Malian state since independence through its interaction with the French post-colonial settlement. It draws on more than 10,000 pages of diplomatic archival documents ...
