Workshops and Events
Explore our latest workshops, conferences and events at the University of Stirling. Stay informed and engaged with human rights at Stirling.
Upcoming and Recent Events
Upcoming and Recent Workshops
When: Call for Submissions: 15 October 2025/ Conference: 18–21 May 2026
Location: Dundee, Scotland
The event will be integrated into the biennial CNS Assembly which will bring together indigenous and minority communities from all over the world to discuss issues relating to mass atrocities, environmental degradation and communities’ rights.
It welcomes submissions on topics which intersect with the theme of the conference, including but not limited to:mass atrocities, reparations, and environmental degradation. Proposals can be in the following formats: Paper, performance, displays relating to cultural heritage and environment, particularly impacts of climate change and climate change policies, literary works and artistic work. The artist is responsible for insurance and the cost of transporting their artwork.
The last date to submit a proposal for this conference is October 15, 2025 at 12 pm midnight (ET). For papers a 200-word abstract is required. For all other proposals, a 100-word summary OR a two-minute video explaining the performance/artwork/or display will be required.
When: 16 June - 20 June
Location: University of Stirling
The School features five days of intensive training in multi-disciplinary research methods and skills in the field of Surveillance Studies. It will also feature a range of knowledge-exchange and research-training activities, as well as providing social and networking opportunities.
The school will be delivered via a range of interactive lectures and workshops and will be facilitated by leading surveillance scholars. Students will have the opportunity to apply this training to their own doctoral research and to learn transferable research skills.
When: 22 October 2025
Location: A96 Pathfoot
A curated selection of films that address serious human rights issues such as racial discrimination, gender and equality, LGBTQIA+ rights, refugee and migration, freedom of speech and more.
Programme:
22 Oct: Limbo (2020), starring Amir El Masry and directed by Ben Sharrock.
A young Syrian musician and other refugees await the answers to their requests for asylum on a remote Scottish island.
When: 7 March 2025
Location: University of Stirling
This one-day workshop, which is generously funded by the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), aims to facilitate academic and policy discussions on normative proposals and emerging frameworks for enhancing accountability within non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the international level.
When: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, 9 April 2025
Location: Jisc Innovation Hub (Library, 2nd Floor)
USHRJ is the first student-led human rights journal in Scotland.USHRJ is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to showcasing research in the field of human rights. As a multidisciplinary platform, it provides visibility and space for scholarship while serving as an educational tool to deepen critical thinking in this vital area. We publish work by postgraduate students, early career researchers, and practitioners, fostering the next generation of human rights advocates.
Participatory Methods in Research
Prof Pía Riggirozzi, University of Southampton
When: 10-11AM, 7 February 2025
Location: Pathfoot H3
Prof Pía Riggirozzi will hold a seminar for PG students and staff on participatory methods in research, drawing from her experience leading the the UKRI-funded research project ReGHID (Redressing Gendered Health Inequalities of Displaced Women and Girls). It will be an opportunity to explore questions of ethics and methods related to research design and implementation, and you are invited to bring your own experiences and ideas for discussion.
When: 4PM - 5PM, 19 March 2025
Location: LT W1, Cottrell Building
An exciting guest talk with Dr Benjamin Klasche, co-director of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub (CEEShub). Klasche's new paper introduces a critical relational perspective to peace-security-conflict to rethink how we imagine these terms so that bodies will not keep piling up (Zalewski 1995). This perspective holds on to pluriversality as a multi-pronged research commitment that asks that our knowledges be plural, those who speak be plural and all aspects of research and our worlds be seen in relational terms.
Prof Pía Riggirozzi, University of Southampton
When: 4-5.30 PM, 6 February 2025
Location: Pathfoot Lecture Theatre
Prof Pía Riggirozzi will offer a talk based on her research on gender, forced migration, and the ethics of protection which will follow a screening of the documentary Salir Adelante, based on her research project redressing gendered health inequalities of displaced women and girls in Central and South America.
When: 09:00 AM – 5:00 PM, 5 March 2025 – 7 March 2025
Location: Stirling Court Hotel
This conference will reflect on the rights of indigenous peoples and ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, and the need to fundamentally rethink and recommit to their protection.
When: 4-6PM , 30 January 2025
Location: Pathfoot Crush Hall
This in-person event, hosted by the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making and Stirling University’s Art Collection, will explore the challenges and affordances of education that respond to the affective dimensions of living on a Fragile Earth.
When: 1PM-4:30PM , 10 September 2024 – 11 September 2024
Location: Stirling Court Hotel
The conference explored the incorporation of international human rights obligations into national law. The event followed conferences in International Law hosted by the Universities of Dundee in 2023, Aberdeen in 2022, Edinburgh in 2019 and Glasgow in 2018 and was generously sponsored by the The Clark Foundation for Legal Education.
When: 2-3:30PM, 10 December 2024
Location: 2B88, Cottrell Building
Learn about the bystander concept with training from White Ribbon Scotland, a charity aiming to prevent and eradicate violence against women and girls.
Part of the 16 Days of Activism series.
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