School of Social and Political Science
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The School of Social and Political Science embraces the Subject Areas of Politics and International Relations, Social Anthropology, Social Policy, Social Work, Sociology, and Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. It also includes the Institute of Governance, the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (INNOGEN), and the Centres of African Studies, Canadian Studies and South Asian Studies.
The School has a long-standing commitment to original empirical and theoretical research on society, politics, culture and public policy sustained by a cosmopolitan community of academic staff which is highly active in national and international research networks as well as being involved in knowledge transfer activities.
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Science, Technology & Innovation Studies (STIS)
STIS is home to the Innogen Institute and the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation.
Collections in this community
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A Comparative Analysis of the Documentation of Torture and Ill-Treatment in Low-Income Countries
In many Low Income Countries (LICs), violence is endemic, and among urban populations, the poor are the most vulnerable to torture and ill-treatment. -
Cool Infrastructures
Data collected as part of the ESRC / GCRF funded project "Cool Infrastructures: Life with heat in the Off Grid City." -
New Norms and Forms of Development
Donors and international organisations involved in dispersing foreign aid now routinely employ contracts with service providers to carry out functions relating to international health service development and delivery. -
Social Work
The University of Edinburgh has been providing training for social workers since 1918. It is one of the largest centres for social work education in the UK and is among the highest ranked for the quality of its teaching ...
Recent Submissions
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Multi-Country Heat-COVID-19 Nexus Survey
Multi-country, remote survey to evaluate the interplay between COVID-19 mitigation measures, heat-health, and livelihoods for populations living in densely populated urban areas. Survey data available for Pakistan, India, ... -
SUPERSEDED - Multi-country survey of heat-health during COVID-19
## This item has been replaced by the one which can be found at https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2961## Multi-country, remote survey to evaluate the interplay between COVID-19 mitigation measures, heat-health and livelihoods ... -
Recruiting students for COVID-19 emergency response: Lessons from eight African countries
A questionnaire on recruiting students for COVID-19 emergency response was sent to 9 TIBA countries and 8 responded. The dataset comprises of an excel spreadsheet containing the responses and a word document summarizing ... -
Human, yeast and pig genomics: sequence submissions and first sequence descriptions in the literature (1980-2015)
This data collection is derived from two sources: 1) Submissions of DNA sequences of S. cerevisiae (yeast), Sus scrofa (pig) and Homo sapiens (human) to the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), and 2) First description of ... -
SUPERSEDED - Human, yeast and pig genomics: sequence submissions and first sequence descriptions in the literature (1980-2015)
## This item has been replaced by the one which can be found at https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2718 ## This data collection is derived from two sources: 1) Submissions of DNA sequences of S. cerevisiae (yeast), Sus scrofa (pig) ... -
SUPERSEDED - Human, yeast and pig genomics: sequence submissions and first sequence descriptions in the literature (1980-2015)
## This item has been replaced by the one which can be found at https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2589 ## This data collection is derived from two sources: 1) Submissions of DNA sequences of S. cerevisiae (yeast), Sus scrofa (pig) ... -
Securing a data set on allegations of sexual abuse made against the former disc jockey, Jimmy Savile
In this work we look at the initial phase of an ESRC funded project involving academics from Social Work, Criminology, Informatics and the University of Edinburgh Library.This project collected and analysed a data set on ... -
Household survey data from Low-Income Settlements in Nairobi and Kathmandu, examining exposure to violence and justice seeking behaviour
This dataset contains information from household surveys conducted in Low-Income Settlements in Nairobi and Kathmandu. The surveys took the form of experimental methodologies aimed at working in partnership with local human ... -
Interview data from 'new norms and forms of development'
This data contains findings of the study on outsourcing of external development assistance in maternal and child health (MCH) in Malawi and Nepal. It outlines the institutional modalities and norms guiding the financing ... -
UK Statutory Instruments
This dataset contains all national level UK statutory instruments from 1987 to 2008 coded according to the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) content coding scheme (www.comparativeagendas.info). The data is a pilot of the ...