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Peaceful, Secure and Empowered Societies

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Past activities and updates

Conflict Research Society Annual Conference

Fri, 29 May 2026 10:06:00 BST

Peaceful, Secure and Empowered Societies IRT welcomes the annual Conflict Research Society Conference to the University of Glasgow.

PSES IRT and GLARN partner with the Scottish Peace Platform

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:28:00 BST

PSES IRT and GLARN Partner with the Scottish Peace Platform to Explore Lessons from Colombia’s Peace Process

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RECAP | Navigating interdisciplinary research: a PGR get-together

Tue, 05 May 2026 10:06:00 BST

PhD-focused forum on interdisciplinarity: share challenges, discuss strategies, and connect with researchers across CoSS [19 May 2026]

EVENT | Political Lessons from Greece: A Case of Unlikely Democratic Resilience

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:00:00 GMT

This symposium will explore how Greek democracy survived, and was reshaped by, more than a decade of profound economic, social, and political strain. Key Speaker: George A. Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece (2009–2011).

RECAP | Trusts and Foundations Workshop

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:00:00 BST

On 11 November (13:00-15:00, ARC Studio 2), the ‘Peaceful, Secure, and Empowered Societies’ Interdisciplinary Research Theme (IRT) organised a workshop focused on trust and foundation grants.

RECAP | Engaging Armed Groups

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:00:00 BST

On 1 October, we welcomed to Glasgow Dr Florian Weigand, Co-Director of the Geneva-based Centre on Armed Groups and Research Associate at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Danish Institute for International Studies.

RECAP | Delivering Health in a Region on the Move

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:04:00 BST

Our roundtable event, 'Delivering Health in a Region on the Move: Health Systems and Forced Migration in the Middle East' explored the complex intersection of health service delivery, displacement, and regional policy responses in one of the world’s most dynamic migration contexts, the Middle East.

Empathy, Memory, Success: Expanding the Securitisation Research Agenda

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:04:00 BST

This research seminar explored how public attitudes toward migrants are shaped by security politics, emotions and memory, and how empathy and historical consciousness can help transform securitisation dynamics in divided societies.

Youth-led Peace: Rethinking Temporalities and Intergenerationality

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:04:00 BST

This research seminar explored critical perspectives on youth, peace and security. Bringing together interdisciplinary insights, the seminar will reflect on how time, power, and intergenerational dynamics shape the possibilities for youth-led peace and how young people navigate and challenge dominant structures within peacebuilding and global governance.

RECAP | 'Now What' Repurposing Unsuccessful Grant Applications

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:04:00 GMT

The main objectives of this workshop were to: (a) share experiences and lessons learned from unsuccessful grant applications; and, (b) discuss viable strategies for repurposing unsuccessful grant applications.

RECAP | Research Networking Workshop: Digital Technologies

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:04:00 GMT

This research networking workshop brought together researchers from across the University whose research interests relate to digital technologies and science.

RECAP | Empowering Migration Researchers: Data, Stakeholder & Networking

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:04:00 GMT

This event aimed to provide a platform for researchers to map and create links with non-academic research partners in migration studies

PAST: Interdisciplinary Research Festive Social

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:57:00 GMT

We invite our interdisciplinary colleagues to our end-of-year social to celebrate the festive holiday season!

RECAP | PSES ESRC Grant Application Workshop

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:04:00 BST

Peaceful, Secure & Empowered Societies IRT organised an ESRC grant workshop where researchers can learn the ins & outs of ESRC applications.

Peaceful, Secure & Empowered Societies IRT Townhall Reflections

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:15:00 BST

The ‘Peaceful, Secure and Empowered Societies’ (PSES) IRT was successfully launched on Wednesday 18 September, with the active and joyful participation of about 45 researchers from the College of Social Sciences (CoSS) and beyond.

Peaceful, Secure & Empowered Societies Townhall

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:04:00 BST

We warmly invite you to the Launch Event of our new Interdisciplinary Research Theme (IRT) “Peaceful, Secure & Empowered Societies” (PSES). Within this IRT, we will explore how our interdisciplinary research can contribute to building peaceful, secure and empowered societies at grassroots, local, national and international levels.