Eilidh Beaton

Dynamic Territory (DynamiTE) - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas Climate change will have consequences for how we manage and distribute the planet's resources. The project will develop a normative framework for territory.

Looking forward to presenting in the Dynamic Territory Project's DynamiTE seminar series at the University of Oslo later this term!

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Congrats - sounds super interesting & timely.

The Way Out by Rebecca Buxton, Samuel Ritholtz - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. Sam and I have worked on this since we first put our heads together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we were writing and thinking.

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En route to BIAPT through the snow ❄️

Petition: Do not increase the time migrants with ILR need to wait to apply for citizenship We ask the Government and Parliament not to amend the British Nationality Act 1981 to increase the qualifying period for migrants with indefinite leave to remain (ILR) to become eligible to apply for ...

✍️ Please sign and share my latest petition!

In November, the government announced plans to amend the British Nationality Act to make citizenship harder to obtain.

So after migrants meet new ILR requirements, they'll wait longer, pay more, jump through MORE hoops.

🧵 Here's why this is unfair… /1

Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland: Changing, complex, contradictory - Migration Policy Scotland The third wave of Migration Policy Scotland’s annual representative survey provides a detailed picture of how views are evolving. This attitudinal survey series provides policymakers and others with e...

Out today: MPS Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland survey 2025
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Interesting (perhaps not so surprising) results.

📣 PhDs & postdocs: Our Call for Papers is now open! If you work on (de)polarization including migration, media or radical right parties — come to Dresden in June 2026. We’re eager to see what ideas, cases and theories are out there!. Please share!

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AHRC - Research Council Awards | Scholarships | The University of Aberdeen Explore scholarships, bursaries and funding options at Aberdeen for undergraduate, postgraduate and international students to support your studies.

📣 The University of Aberdeen is offering 3 AHRC Doctoral Landscape funding awards for doctoral studentships across the arts and humanities.

Prospective Philosophy applicants can contact eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk. Further info:

Lastly, I'll add that the experience of co-authoring with Matt was great. As a grad student, it was invaluable experience, and really helped set my expectations about what productive co-authorship could look like.

The Right to Family Unification for Refugees - published on March 8, 2023 A handful of scholars have offered explanations for why states with otherwise restrictive immigration laws should relax their demands for people applying to immigrate for family reasons. However, much...

(My own position is most thoroughly articulated in this STP piece: www.pdcnet.org/soctheorprac...)

As a PSA: I was a PhD candidate when we co-authored this (!!) and Matt & I have slightly different views on some aspects of this topic. Though we overlap on many things, some parts of the paper mostly reflect his views; others better reflect mine.

Refugees and Family Unification The topics of refugee protection and family migration have both received significant attention in the philosophical literature. However, until recently, issues at the intersection of these two subjects were rarely discussed. In this entry, we outline and explore some...

📣 The chapter Matt Lister and I co-authored on refugee family reunion is now out in the Handbook of Migration Ethics. Our paper surveys several important questions & issues worthy of further consideration in this under-explored topic.

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Beautiful autumn day for the first day of teaching.

Text: Successive UK Governments have increased costs and restrictions in the UK immigration system. Talent is vital, but 96% of UK cancer researchers report barriers when recruiting international researchers.

New report 🚨

Our 2025 analysis shows the mounting impacts of the UK immigration system: over £870,000 cost, challenges to recruit and delays to life-saving cancer research.

Read more: bit.ly/CRUK2025visasblog

⛰️ After the summer school, Anna, Esmé, and Eilidh joined a group trip to the Wudang mountains. Hosted by the Wudangshan Daoist Association and led by Dr Xuelin Deng, they learned about Daoist practice and visited several Daoist temples, including the Golden Palace and the Purple Cloud Temple. (2/2)

📚☀️🇨🇳 Aberdeen Philosophy students Anna, Esmé, Itzel, and Tom had a great time participating in the Political Philosophy Summer School at Wuhan University this month! Our Eilidh Beaton also attended and delivered three lectures in the programme. (1/2)

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For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.

1 in 3 Tuvaluans is bidding for a new ‘climate visa’ to Australia – here’s why everyone may ultimately end up applying The rush for ‘climate visas’ to escape Tuvalu shows the extraordinary need for schemes that enable people to migrate in a warmer world.

In just four days, one-third of the population of Tuvalu entered a ballot for a new permanent visa to Australia. I explain how the visa came about and why it's so popular theconversation.com/1-in-3-tuval...

New publication!🚨Here, we critically examine the governance of humanitarian protection, showing how both gender-blind and gender-sensitive regimes often reinforce—rather than reduce—the vulnerabilities faced by forcibly displaced women. academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

Flamingo Land: Another case of planning's democratise deficit? By Professor Mark Stephens. Image is of Loch Lomond in the background, and a profile photo of Professor Mark Stephens. Features University of Glasgow and Centre for Public Policy logos.

NEW: A central topic in today's FMQs - we're examining the Flamingo Land decision on the Centre blog 🚨🗣️

Professor Mark Stephens reflects on his role in a previous similar campaign in New Lanark, the democracy of planning decisions and whether planning is political.

🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Save Loch Lomond: “Appalling” Flamingo Land mega-resort approved by Scottish Government officials Save Loch Lomond: “Appalling” Flamingo Land mega-resort approved by Scottish Government officials - The most unpopular planning application in Scottish history, Flamingo Land would cause irreversible ...

More info here greens.scot/news/save-lo... and here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW -

Scotland-based folks: please sign if you too are not keen on a "Flamingo Land" resort being built at Loch Lomond, via an antidemocratic process which ignores the position of the National Park's board, the local community council, and over 155,000 people who previously objected
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OPEN LETTER: 100+ UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right

I recently co-authored & circulated (with @alasianuti.bsky.social ) an open letter against Starmer’s anti-immigrant rules & rhetoric.

Over 100 of my UK-based political academics & writers signed it. Read the whole thing here:

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

Cool summer school opportunity for students of political philosophy!

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Collecting Australia: colonial consumption and the display of Australia in Scotland during the long nineteenth century at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Collecting Australia: colonial consumption and the display of Australia in Scotland during the long nineteenth century at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

AHRC-funded PhD at University of Aberdeen/NMS: "Collecting Australia: colonial consumption and the display of Australia in Scotland during the long 19th century", focusing on colonial-era collections in Edinburgh @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social . Please share widely! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨 My book "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular" is finally out today with
@ColumbiaUP! 🚨

It tackles one of the biggest challenges today: How can we make freer human mobility between countries more politically sustainable? 🧵

Political Philosophy and Western Complacency Do Western political philosophers assume that Western powers will always be in charge of the world?

I wrote something. I hope it's not too controversial. axdouglas.substack.com/p/political-...

University funding model ‘no longer fit for purpose’ amid Edinburgh job losses Hundreds of staff leave institution as it looks to cut £140 million from its budget

Today's university losing staff is Edinburgh, which has got itself into a frightful muddle and panic about cashflow - but which is becoming emblematic of just how vulnerable the Welsh and Scottish Higher Ed systems really are.
www.scotsman.com/education/un...

With @stevecooke.org, @drsvg.bsky.social, @mattwperry.bsky.social, and others I'm organizing the latest conference in the 'Animal Politics' series, this time hosted in Leicester. The theme is 'Forgotten Animals', and we're now accepting abstracts. Spread the word!

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