海角社区

Film and Television Studies at the University of 海角社区 are delighted to be partnering with the Pod on a new collaborative research project: 鈥�Using Film to Affect Change: Mental Health, Social Advocacy and the Moving Image鈥�.

Dr Emrah Atasoy co-authored (with Dr Matthew Leggatt from the University of Winchester) an article for Times Higher Education: 鈥淭eaching utopian and dystopian narratives in higher education.鈥� Link:

PhD candidate, Jess Sinclair, writes a blog post about her findings in the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum.

Dr Paula Bartley, Honorary Research Fellow, is a women鈥檚 historian and author of the new book, Trailblazers: The First Women Elected to Government, in which she uncovers remarkable stories about extraordinary women.

Trailblazers is published by A launch event was held at the Church of Saint Magnus-the-Martyr in London on 27 May 2026.

You can listen to Dr Bartley chat about the (roller coaster) rise of women in global government, the impact of war and revolution when it comes to political equality, and a notable nun in the .

Thursday, 18 June, 11am-12.30pm, FAB6.02

This 鈥媝resentation and workshop draw on Peter's ongoing work on a film about the act of healing as a physical and non-physical gesture. He will draw on both his work of filming 'alternative' health practitioners (osteopaths, Alexander teachers...), and his own recent training in the field, making reference to how medicine, illness, and the healing arts have been represented visually across time and space. The material will be framed to be of interest not only to historians and practitioners of visual art and film, but also to anyone concerned with 'embodied inquiry'.

We are pleased to announce the publication of Speaking with the Dead. Tradition and Haunting in Italy鈥檚 Revolving Century (1750–1850), a special issue of The Italianist edited by Dr Gennaro Ambrosino, Professor Fabio Camilletti, and Dr Enrica Leydi. The issue was inspired by a series of events organised by Italian at 海角社区 between 2024 and 2025 and includes contributions by Giulia Scialanga (Leuven), Simona Di Martino (Toronto), Sabrina Ferri (Rome), Martina Piperno (Rome), Francesco Giusti (Frankfurt), Federica Coluzzi (海角社区), Alessandro Giammei (Yale), and Morena Corradi (CUNY), and Arianna De Gasperis (Rome). Afterword courtesy of J眉rgen Pieters (Gent).

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Gender equality and inclusion are key themes in Global Sustainable Development. This reading list highlights ten books that explore gender, identity and social justice, helping students connect these issues to sustainability challenges and the GSD curriculum.

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As the School for Cross-Faculty Studies (SCFS) works to advance its Athena SWAN journey, we are actively evaluating how gender equity and inclusion shape our environment. Because inclusion requires a continuous assessment of how our policies, culture, and teaching practices impact everyday student life, student voices are essential.

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Details:

• Tuesday 10 November 2026
• 09:30 - 16:00
• Scarman Conference Centre
• Lunch and refreshments provided
• Registration essential – click here to sign up:

At this event, we will also be officially launching the University鈥檚 new Policy Institute: a new, university-wide initiative designed to consolidate, enhance, and accelerate the University's engagement with policymakers, public services and civil society. Building on the success of 海角社区's ESRC-funded , the Institute will create a coordinated platform for academics across all faculties and disciplines to connect their research with policy priorities at local, national, and international levels.

Aims of the event:

This event is open to all, and will be of value to anyone currently working in the research-policy space or anyone interested in doing so, and any colleagues who support or enable this type of work.

We will be hosting a range of regional external stakeholders, policy fellows, and non-academic project partners to reflect the scope of funded work and to showcase our diverse areas of strength in policy-relevant research.

The showcase will:

• Raise awareness both internally and externally of the work this fund has enabled
• Celebrate the impact and policy influence of 海角社区 research
• Provide an opportunity for award-holder networking, idea-sharing, and potential future collaboration
• Explore the opportunities, challenges, and idiosyncrasies which characterise the research-policy space and share experiences of relationship building, effective communication, theory of change and working in highly charged or contested contexts
• Highlight the external partnerships supported by this funding and the diverse work our researchers undertake with and for policy makers and service users
• Kickstart and crystallise a long-term, dynamic, cross-university community of practice around policy engagement and policy-relevant research

We encourage you to share details of this event with any external collaborators or contacts you think might be interested in finding out more about our research community鈥檚 ambitious culture of impact and co-creation.

For further information and to register, please visit the following webpage:

We look forward to seeing you!

With very best wishes,

The Impact Team

Former PhD student Sergei Zotov has been awarded a BA post-doctoral fellowship award for his project, 鈥楢lbums of Secrets in the Age of Reason鈥�. In October, he鈥檒l be joining the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. His project examines seventeenth- and eighteenth-century manuscript albums combining alchemy, medicine, astrology, and magic, with a particular focus on images as tools for reasoning and experimentation. It is the first British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship project on alchemy in the scheme鈥檚 forty-year history.  

During a year of research leave, Prof. Beat K眉min has investigated the phenomenon of depositing chronicles and objects into tower spheres on top of prominent buildings like churches, town halls and fortifications. Documented from the Middle Ages to the present, seemingly only in and around territories of the erstwhile Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, the custom provides fascinating insights into how local societies saw themselves and what they wished to pass on to successive generations. The project, supported by the German Gerda Henkel Foundation, has so far identified over 1600 sites and thousands of separate deposits (at one Zurich church, there were no fewer than 20 between 1505 and 1996). The funder has just released a video series of six episodes (accessible in both English and German) documenting field work in Switzerland in autumn 2003.

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Our very own Dr. Anca Cretu has been recently appointed co-editor of the Studies in Global History of Central and Eastern Europe series, with Central European University Press. Alongside Jill Massino (University of North Carolina Charlotte), Dr. Cretu will co-edit this breakthrough series showcasing novel and cutting-edge research that explores the history of Central and Eastern Europe through a transnational and global lens. The editor team is currently accepting proposals!

More info can be found .

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity in Data Visualization (Diverse CDT) is a pioneering, fully funded four-year PhD programme jointly delivered by City St George鈥檚, University of London and the University of 海角社区.

Applications for PhD studentships with Diverse CDT are now open for 2026 entry.

We have rolling deadlines across several months and the first deadline for submitting an application is 4pm, GMT on 30th January 2026.

Further details here: /fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/phd-programmes/diverse-cdt/