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COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3: The Provision of Health and Social Care: Social Care for Children

Report
McKay, C., Stavert, J., Breen, C., McKay, E., Spassiani, N., Rose, S., Petropoulou, E., Davey, J., Sterman, J., Thompson, K., Higgins, A., Woodrow, A., & King, M. COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3: The Provision of Health and Social Care: Social Care for Children. Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry

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McKay, C., Stavert, J., Breen, C., McKay, E., Spassiani, N., Rose, S., Petropoulou, E., Davey, J., Sterman, J., Thompson, K., Higgins, A., Woodrow, A., & King, M. COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3: The Provision of Health and Social Care: Social Care for Children. Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry
This report reviews available evidence regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social care for children in Scotland, focusing on the strategic response of the Scottis...

Fighting intersectional repressions: countering 'anti-gender' violence at the intersection with LGBTQ+ rights

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R., & Filep, E. (2024, October)
Fighting intersectional repressions: countering 'anti-gender' violence at the intersection with LGBTQ+ rights. Presented at 'The EU Public Diplomacy. Russia' Project. A Feminist Foreign Policy Perspective on War and Society, Warsaw, PL
'The EU Public Diplomacy. Russia' Project is funded by the EU’s Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI). It aims at creating space for dialogue and strengthening the ties between the...

UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers"

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May)
UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers". Presented at Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL
In this invited contribution, Dr Kulpa will share reflections on how EDI (equality, diversity, and inclusion) and decolonialisation work in the UK academic contexts, embedded ...

Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities.

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May)
Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. Presented at UCU Equality Research Conference 2024, University of Manchester, UK
Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity, and self-determination, and attacking ...

Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May)
Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland. Presented at Public Lectures of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
On the 08 May 2024, Dr Kulpa presented a Commentary: "Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ...

COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3 The Provision of Health and Social Care Services Adult Social Care

Report
McKay, C., Stavert, J., Johnston, L., Murray, J., Rek, J., Breen, C., Zarins, A., Woodrow, A., Anderson, L., & King, M. (2024)
COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3 The Provision of Health and Social Care Services Adult Social Care. Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry
Report commissioned by Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry into the Scottish Government's strategic response to the COVID pandemic in relation to the provision of healthcare serv...

Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union

Journal Article
Volintiru, C., Surubaru, N., Epstein, R. A., & Fagan, A. (2024)
Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, 31(3), 782-800. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2313694
This introduction argues that the East-West divide in Europe continues to be politically salient since the fall of the Berlin Wall and two decades since the accession of most ...

The future of midwife-led continuity of care: Call for a dialogue

Journal Article
Kuipers, Y. J. (2024)
The future of midwife-led continuity of care: Call for a dialogue. Dialogues in Health, 4, Article 100170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dialog.2024.100170
Background/Purpose: Midwife-led continuity of care (MLCC) is an evidence-based care model positively influencing the health and wellbeing of women and their families. Despite ...

Building a European University Consortium: The Case of the U!REKA-Network

Working Paper
Rosenbusch, C., Tarazona, M., Lammlein, B., Garden, C., Berekbulova, A., & Stevens, R. (2023)
Building a European University Consortium: The Case of the U!REKA-Network
European policy makers encourage close interorganizational collaboration of universities across national systems. The study at hand analyzes this development from the organiza...

Managing smart city governance: A playbook for local and regional governments

Report
Beckers, D., Gerli, P., Mora, L., Thabit, S., & Tonnarelli, F. (2023)
Managing smart city governance: A playbook for local and regional governments. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat
This playbook and its recommendations are primarily aimed at municipal governments and their political leaders, local administrators, and public officials who are involved in ...
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Napier academic guest edits Special Issue on East-West divisions in Europe

20 February 2024
Dr Cristian Surubaru has guest edited a Special Issue (SI) of the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) on the topic of the East-West divide within the European Union (2024, Volume 31, Issue 3). H...

Dr Cristian Surubaru in Romania as an expert for a second European Commission consultancy project

3 October 2023
Last week, Dr Neculai-Cristian Surubaru (The Business School at Edinburgh Napier) was is in Romania, conducting fieldwork as part of a second consultancy project on behalf of the European Commission. ...

Dr Kulpa lunches project: ‘RESIST. Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics’

1 October 2022
Dr Roberto Kulpa with colleagues form 9 European organisations launches “Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)” research consortium ai...

Academics moot making GLC execs’ pay public by law

31 October 2018
The assistant director of the International Centre for Management & Governance Research (ICMGR), Dr Marizah Minhat, and Associate Professor Nazam Dzolkarnaini are undertaking a research collaboration ...

Lord Sheikh Represents APPGIF at Edinburgh Forum

26 September 2018
Lord Sheikh, a co-chair of the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Islamic Finance (APPGIF), visited Edinburgh on Saturday 8 September 2018 to participate in the ‘Ethical Finance & Community Develop...

Dr. Simon Powers is invited as the keynote speaker at the Second International Workshop of Social Learning and Cultural Evolution

27 August 2017
Simon Powers will give the keynote talk at the Second International Workshop of Social Learning and Cultural Evolution, part of the European Conference on Artificial Life held in Lyon, France, 4th Sep...

Financing the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative

24 August 2017
A research project was launched to explore financing issues in relation to BRI. In collaboration with international researchers, this research is led by Dr Marizah Minhat, the Assistant Director of th...

Islamic Finance/Investment: Rent-Seeking, Risk-Sharing and One Belt One Road

20 July 2017
Dr Marizah Minhat and Dr Nazam Dzolkarnaini were invited by the Treasury Markets Association (TMA) to deliver a talk to TMA members and market participants on “Islamic Finance/Investment: Rent-Seeking...

Perspectives on ethical finance and investment

19 May 2017
IMS member, Dr Marizah Minhat, Assistant Director of ICMGR, recently led an event on ethical finance and investment; here she reflects on its findings.

Dr Jason Monios wins funding to study climate change adaptation at ports

19 April 2017
TRI's Dr Jason Monios is part of a consortium that was successful in a funding application to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Led by Professor Adolf Ng at the Un...
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Confronting "Anti-Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances

Date: Monday, March 3, 2025; 9:30–16:30 CET (Warsaw time); Online & In-person: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Staszic Palace (Pałac Staszica), Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland Registration link (for both online and in-person participation): Click here https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/253ecaa8-ddf1-45bc-a765-f82099fcc299@99e0dc58-9c4b-4820-8617-04c386c254c6 Agenda (PL time zone) 09:30–10:00 Arrival, coffee, informal networking 10:00–11:00 Presentation of RESIST Project Findings from the Case Studies in Poland and Belarus.  Panel discussion (hybrid, online transmission). The RESIST team members will introduce the project and speak about the effects of, and resistances against “anti-gender” politics in Belarus and Poland in 15-minute presentations followed by a Q&A. Adrianna Zabrzewska (RESIST Project, Edinburgh Napier University), Understanding ‘Anti-gender’ Politics Across Europe: An Overview of the RESIST Project. Ekaterina Filep (RESIST Project, Université de Fribourg), Lived Experiences and Resistances to the ‘Anti-gender’ Mobilisations in Belarus. Roberto Kulpa (RESIST Project, Edinburgh Napier University), Lived Experiences and Resistances to the ‘Anti-gender’ Mobilisations in Poland. 11:00–11:15 COFFEE BREAK 11:15–12:30 Feedback session and idea exchange workshop.  This workshop (in-person only) aims to facilitate engagement with the project findings and share insights. We invite everyone to reflect on the following questions: How do “anti-gender” politics manifest differently in  Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia and what factors contribute to these variations? In what ways do queer-feminist movements in these countries collaborate or support one another? What barriers (both external  and internal) do they encounter in building solidarity? What role does intersectionality play in shaping the experiences of individuals affected by “anti-gender” politics in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia? 12:30–13:45 LUNCH BREAK 13:45–15:00 Gender, Sexuality, Migration: Intersectional Identities, Competing Priorities, and Queer-Feminist Resistances Against “Anti-Gender” Politics. Panel discussion (hybrid, online transmission). In this session, our guest speakers will deliver 15-minute presentations on their respective research, followed by Q&A. Chaired by Dorota Hall, IFiS PAN. Olga Sasunkevich (University of Gothenburg), The frames of war: state-led homophobia in Russia and the war against Ukraine and the West in the context of transnational anti-gender mobilisation. Olga Plakhotnik (University of Greifswald), Maria Mayerchyk (Rhine-Waal University), Between “Gender” and “Anti-Gender”: (Trans) Necropolitics at the Buffer Periphery. Sarian Jarski (Migration Consortium/ Queer Without Borders), ‘Queer’ and at the ‘green border’: LGBTQI+ displacement and intersectional solidarity at Polish borders with Belarus and Ukraine after 2021. 15:00–15:20 COFFEE BREAK 15:20–16:30 Anti-Gender Violence across Migration Routes. Personal Experiences, Theoretical Approaches, Academic Trials and Tribulations.  Experience-sharing session (in-person only). In this session, we invite all in-person attendees to reflect on the questions below. Moderated by: Anna Cze Czerwińska HerStory Archivist and Independent Expert. How do experiences of “anti-gender” violence differ among individuals navigating various migration routes? What coping mechanisms and strategies of resistance are employed? How does the experience of migration impact one’s academic and/or activist engagements? Do queer-feminist scholars in these four national contexts experience the limitation of academic freedoms due to “anti-gender” mobilizations? In what ways? How can theories of post-colonialism and peripheralization be applied to understand the unique challenges faced by queer-feminist movements in Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia and across these national contexts? Reminder: Please note that both in-person and online attendees need to register for the event by following this link. We will not be able to admit unregistered participants. Presentation Abstracts: Olga Sasunkevich The frames of war: state-led homophobia in Russia and the war against Ukraine and the West in the context of transnational anti-gender mobilisation This presentation is based on a forthcoming book chapter that analyses how state-led homophobia in Russia served as a discursive framing of country’s decision to launch the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The argument is built on theoretical concepts of (un)grievable life and queer necropolitics to illuminate how questions of gender equality and sexual rights increasingly become the question of life and death in the contemporary geopolitical climate.   Applied to the Russian context, these concepts reveal the potential of state-led homophobia to incite affective violence and economies of hate. The presentation analyses Russia’s case at the transnational background of anti-gender mobilization where struggles around gender and sexuality become a central field of contestation in contemporary (geo)politics. Thus, the cruelty of Russia in relation to “ungrievable” segments of its own population and the citizens of Ukraine should be seen as a warning suggesting that the boundary between symbolic and outright violence of anti-gender mobilization is fragile. Olga Plakhotnik and Maria Mayerchyk Between “Gender” and “Anti-Gender”: (Trans) Necropolitics at the Buffer Periphery We use the concept of necropolitics (Mbembe 2003) in two dimensions. First, we zoom in on the situation of transgender people in Ukraine. On the one hand, they are vulnerable to transphobic hatred fuelled by transnational “anti-gender” movements. On the other hand, opposing “anti-gender” discourse, feminist activists and academics might rely on the grammar of binary gender, thus producing overt or covert transphobia. In addition to many levels of human insecurity caused by the full-scale Russian war on Ukraine, the condition of martial law and militarization of feminist and LGBT+ activisms in Ukraine practically delegitimize transgender lives. In the second part, we employ the analytics of the “buffer periphery” to decipher how “progressive” gender and sexual politics are being instrumentalized in the context of EU- and NATO aspirations of the Ukrainian state and Western financial and military aid. Zooming out to a global scale, we apply the concept of necropolitics to examine how both Western and Russian imperial powers project the Ukrainian population as marked by colonial difference, and what queer feminist responses to this projection might look like. Sarian Jarosz ‘Queer’ and at the ‘green border’. LGBTQI+ displacement and intersectional solidarity at Polish borders with Belarus and Ukraine after 2021 The sudden intensification of mobility on Poland's eastern borders - first in 2021 on the border with Belarus, then in 2022 on the border with Ukraine - has forced Polish informal border solidarity infrastructures to develop ad hoc intersectional response to LGBTQI+ displacement. Based on the framework of engaged ethnography and the in-depth work of the cross-border research collective Queer Without Borders, I aim to present the different forms of queer humanitarianism and risks of its criminalization during humanitarian crises after 2021. This analysis exposes how both the experience of minority stress and state criminalization of queer/border solidarity in Poland in 2017-2023, shapes the methods and data collection regarding LGBTQI+ individuals on the move, conducted by the informal border activists at both Polish borders (Guyan 2022; Sandberg 2018). The emphasis is on testimonies of those engaged in queer migration research or humanitarian and legal data collection, who directly apply such data into cross-border work in Poland and Ukraine (Queer Without Borders 2022). Participant bios: Anna Cze Czerwińska is a longstanding feminist activist, past member of the Manifa 8go Marca, OŚKa, co-founder of Feminoteka and STER. She is a leading expert and organiser of herstory archives of Polish activist women in politics. Dorota Hall is an Assoc. Prof. at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, interested in religion, new spiritualities, gender, sexualities, minoritization and various forms of marginalization. She was a member of expert networks, such as the Network of Socio-economic Experts in the Anti-discrimination Field (SEN) established by the European Commission. Sarian Jarosz is a Research Coordinator at Migration Consortium, Humanitarian LGBTQI+ Advisor at Save the Children Poland and co-founder of Queer Without Borders, non-formal coalition of organizations assisting LGBTQI+ refugees in Poland. With Save the Children and Plan International he published two reports on humanitarian response to LGBTQI+ displacement in Poland. Formerly Investigator on LGBTQI+ rights and migration at Amnesty International Poland. His focus is on criminalization of LGBTQI+ solidarity after 2017, research conducted in Poland, Belarus, Russia and Uganda. Maria Mayerchyk is a Deputy Professor at the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences and, together with Olga Plakhotnik, a joint editor-in-chief of Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies. Maria’s research interests include a decolonial perspective on gender, sexuality and body, queer and feminist movements and epistemologies of Eastern Europe, diaspora and migration studies, and folklore. Olga Plakhotnik is a Chair for Ukrainian Cultural Studies at the University of Greifswald and a PI of the project "(Un)Disciplined: Pluralizing Ukrainian Studies—Understanding the War in Ukraine” . As a scholar-activist and educator, Olga works in the area of feminist/queer epistemologies, critical citizenship studies, and feminist/queer pedagogies. Volha/Olga Sasunkevich is an Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Gothenburg. She is a PI for EU Horizon Project MAGnituDe. Migration, Affective Geopolitics and European Democracy in Times of Military Conflicts and Research School FUDEM – Future of Democracy: Cultural Analyses of Illiberal Populism in Times of Crises. Olga's research interests revolve around the questions of gender, sexuality, migration and ethnicity in Eastern Europe. RESIST Project Team Members: Katya Filep (Université de Fribourg) is a social geographer specialising in gender, with a regional focus on Central Asia and Eastern Europe. She has a professional background in research, project management, translation and interpreting. Katya coordinates the RESIST Project's case study of Belarus and Hungary. Roberto Kulpa (Edinburgh Napier University) is a social scientist interested in transnational sexual politics, especially dynamics between Central-Eastern Europe and ‘the West’, as well as in critical epistemologies. He coordinates the RESIST Project’s case study on Poland and leads on Stage 5: Communication and Dissemination. Adrianna Zabrzewska  (Edinburgh Napier University) is a feminist philosopher and co-editor of Gender, Voice, and Violence in Poland (2021). Adrianna combines a professional background in content marketing with interdisciplinary research expertise to implement RESIST’s impact plan and contribute to the case study on Poland.
3 March 2025

Knowledge exchange workshops organised as part of the "Friendship for LGBTIQ+ (post-)pandemic social resilience" grant.

1 February 2022 - 31 July 2022

Call for Papers: Management, Governance and Ethical Finance Conference 2019

Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University.
10 April 2019 - 11 April 2019

Financing Issues in the Belt and Road Initiative

Research Centre for Sustainable Hong Kong (CSHK), City University of Hong Kong.
6 November 2018

The Belt and Road Initiative: Challenges and Opportunities

The Confucius Institute for Scotland, The University of Edinburgh
5 October 2018

Ethical Finance and Community Development Forum

The Business School, Edinburgh Napier University.
8 September 2018

Ethical Finance and Governance in Emerging Markets Conference (featuring Belt and Road Initiative)

Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2 May 2018 - 3 May 2018

Sustainable Silk Roads conference

The Confucius Institute for Scotland, The University of Edinburgh
4 October 2017 - 5 October 2017

Explorathon: where research meets the public!

The WHALE Arts centre, 30 Westburn Grove, Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, EH14 2SA, 0131 458 3267
30 September 2017

Perspectives on Ethical Finance and Investment

Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University
19 May 2017