Many thanks to all contributors, attendees and to the @ifecosse.bsky.social and the Consulat général de France à Édimbourg et Glasgow.
Days like this are what Scottish Council on Global Affairs is here for.
26.11.2025 00:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Successful, thoughtful, challenging and urgent day of serious thinking about #Ukraine, Europe, UK, Scotland & wider world with colleagues at @iwm.at
Changing grammar of modern warfare, globalised war economies, changing political order, & reconstruction, peace, European order & Mark Malloch Brown.
26.11.2025 00:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Banner illustrating an article about seasonal agricultural workers in Scotland
🆕Seasonal agricultural workers: co-creating resources to enhance rights’ awareness. Report on an event funded by an SCGA engagement award. @workersupportc.bsky.social scga.scot/2025/11/21/s...
21.11.2025 11:21 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Podcast: Never again? The Genocide Convention at 75
The Genocide Convention at 75 - in discussion with Professor Christian Tams of Glasgow University
On the 80th anniversary of the #Nuremberg Trials, our podcast on the Genocide Convention that the trials preceded looks back the origins, definitions and progress since.
scga.scot/2023/12/12/g...
19.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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15.11.2025 20:21 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Closes at midnight on Saturday - not too late yet... ⏰
14.11.2025 17:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Approved work: Research and development (R&D) for UK Defence
How is defence research in the UK structured and coordinated? What are the barriers to effective innovation and how can they be addressed?
How is #defence research in the UK structured and coordinated? What are the barriers to effective innovation and how can they be addressed?
POST, @ukparliament.parliament.uk is calling for researchers with expertise to share their research and knowledge.
post.parliament.uk/approved-wor...
13.11.2025 12:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Launch of new CEASEFIRE! peace game, developed at @uofglasgow.bsky.social (PI Rebecca Sutton) in collaboration with @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social, Education Evolved, the Floating Designer, ceasefire negotiation experts, & youth peacebuilders in Scotland.
Online:
uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/8949734951...
03.11.2025 20:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
24.10.2025 12:51 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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16.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#GlobalAffairs #CallForProposals #ScottishResearch #Scotland #ScottishElections #PolicyResearch #InternationalRelations #GlobalChallenges #ResearchCommunity
16.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re looking for proposals that bring fresh, diverse and creative perspectives — through public events, short papers, editorials, podcasts and workshops with policymakers.
16.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Banner advertising SCGA call for funding proposals
🌍 Call for Proposals 2025–26 🌍The Scottish Council on Global Affairs (SCGA) invites Scotland-based researchers to take part in our new project: The State of the World. With the upcoming Scottish elections on the horizon, this initiative will take stock of global challenges shaping Scotland today.
16.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
A Scottish and Irish perspective in an era of global tension
Are we taking nuclear weapons seriously? Join UN House Scotland and the Irish Consulate in Edinburgh for a collaborative roundtable event.
Are we taking #nuclearweapons seriously? How can we advance global peace and security? What can we learn from Scottish and Irish perspectives on peace and disarmament?
A collaborative roundtable hosted by UN House Scotland and Irish Consulate - support from SCGA.
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-scottish...
07.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Microsoft Forms
Scottish Parliament to access expertise for consideration of
next draft Climate Change Plan
Parliament keen for research expertise and insights relevant to industrial decarbonisation in Scotland - encourage responses from academics from all institutions.
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
09.10.2025 14:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Scottish and Irish perspective in an era of global tension
Are we taking nuclear weapons seriously? Join UN House Scotland and the Irish Consulate in Edinburgh for a collaborative roundtable event.
Are we taking #nuclearweapons seriously? How can we advance global peace and security? What can we learn from Scottish and Irish perspectives on peace and disarmament?
A collaborative roundtable hosted by UN House Scotland and Irish Consulate - support from SCGA.
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-scottish...
07.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
@uofglaw.bsky.social @workersupportc.bsky.social
02.10.2025 12:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SCGA Insight: Exploitation, Precarity and Vulnerability
The UK Seasonal Worker Visa scheme (SWV), a short-term labour visa route in the UK, is ostensibly beneficial to the UK economy and to foreign worker visa holders. However, despite regulations that see...
🆕SCGA Insight report - Exploitation, precarity and vulnerability: seasonal workers on Scotland’s farms. This SCGA Insight is distilled from a larger supervised student research project undertaken in 2025 in the GO Justice Centre of the School of Law.
02.10.2025 10:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
A real pleasure to welcome a parliamentary delegation from Lower Saxony to Edinburgh.
The visit focused on citizen participation in democracy and petitions - and we discussed Scotland's politics, place in the world and SCGA's role in the public sphere.
30.09.2025 10:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome to SIET: Our grants have been helping remarkable young Scots study internationally for fifty years - transforming their own lives, connecting Scotland with the world, and strengthening our shared future.
Asia Director at ECFR. Formerly: European Commission, German Marshall Fund. Posting on China / US / Europe Books, articles: andrewsmall.org
International Historian, Defence Studies Department, King’s College London.
Cold War; Diplomacy; British Foreign Policy.
Views my own.
The IWM promotes intellectual exchange between disciplines, academia and society, through public events, and fellowships for scholars, journalists, translators.
https://www.iwm.at
Bluesky account of the REVEL (Realising European Values and European Law) Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology. Funded by the European Union (2025-2028).
Official account of the EU Delegation to the UK
Member of the Colombian Government Negotiation Team in Peace Process with Comuneros del Sur. Co-founder Rodeemos el Diálogo, senior policy affiliate PeaceRep, associate researcher SOAS. Newest book: We Are Not Made of Sugar (Fuller Vigil 2025)
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Global Law, University of Edinburgh.
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre @stir.ac.uk is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
The Official Bluesky account for the University of Stirling.
World-class research, innovative teaching in a beautiful, inspiring, modern campus environment.
Est. 1495. News, research and study opportunities from the University of Aberdeen. We RT to share, not to endorse. linktr.ee/UniOfAberdeen
The Official Bluesky account of Heriot-Watt University. We continue to push new frontiers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Business and Design.
https://www.hw.ac.uk
The latest research in Political Science and International Relations from @universitypress.cambridge.org.
cambridge.org/politics
Director, Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social. Interested in the EU, Russia and China
For 10 years, Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service at the McCourt School of Public Policy has been preparing young people to go into public service. https://politics.georgetown.edu/
Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. Latest book: ‘The Derecognition of States’ https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11703277.
CEO of the Center for a New American Security (@cnas.bsky.social). Former State Dept, NSC, SFRC, SASC, and advisor to Sen. John McCain. Tweets reflect personal views.
