Scottish Studies Study Group

Introduction

The Scottish Studies Group was relaunched in October 2009. We see this study group as a forum through which researchers investigating issues relating to Scotland, its people and communities, culture and society, economy and politics within the 21st century can come together. We hope to consolidate research on Scottish society and politics in a changing global world, exploring what the global climate means in this local context and what tools we can use to explore this.

We also hope to engage our academic analyses with practitioners, policy makers and activists, and with this in mind, we hope that the BSA Scottish Studies group will be a forum to bring together a broad range of interests. We are keen to:

bring together academics at all stages in their careers in a supportive and collegial environment to discuss and disseminate their work with each other and to a broader audience of activists, policy makers and practitioners; establish links with other universities that have research centres which share common interests; create an interactive, informal and supportive environment for the discussion of our ideas.

We envisage the group will address multiple social, political and cultural and economic questions including

Class identities and positions
Inequalities and social divisions
Urban and rural identities and politics
Contemporary migranthood and new communities
Forms of nationalism, Scottishness and identities
Sexualities, masculinities and femininities
Politics and activism
New media and technology
Crime

The group aims to provide a space to consider these issues. We do this to consider the peculiarities of a Scottish context and/or to help foster research agendas, methodologies and ´knowledge transfer´ amongst researchers within these fields.

This list is not exhaustive and we are very keen to hear from you, about your interests and how these can be integrated.