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Centre for Minorities Research Podcast
This podcast is an extension of The University of St Andrews Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) a student-led initiative that reflects CMR’s core values of promoting dialogue between disciplines on all aspects of minority research. The podcast series provides a space for students to creatively explore their interests alongside experts from a range of fields and disciplines to co-produce collaborative knowledge for the contemporary age. For more information visit us at…
Episodes
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastIdentity, Cultural Trauma, and Well-being
How are identity, cultural trauma, and well-being connected? In this episode of the CMR Podcast, Samata Shinde, a PhD researcher in the School of Psychology…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastWho Gets Left Out: Minority Communities, Healthcare Data, and the Cost of Being Invisible
When clinical research, biomedical datasets, and diagnostic tools are built predominantly on the experiences of white, Western populations, what happens to…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastRecognised by No State: Statelessness, Human Security, and the Violence of Non-Recognition
In this episode, Luci Portugal speaks with Aleksejs Ivashuk, founder of Apatride Network and a leading advocate on statelessness in Europe, about what it means…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastIndigenous people of Russia: Challenges and hopes of antiwar activism
How do Indigenous people of Russia respond to the war in Ukraine and the tightening of repressions at home? In this episode, Evgeniya Pakhomova, a social…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastBetween Shores: Ashley Hickson-Lovence on About to Fall Apart
In this episode of the CMR Podcast, Esther Zitterl, a PhD researcher in Black British literature and the Windrush legacy at the University of St Andrews…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastAuthenticity and Accessibility: Reconciliation Towards More Equitable and Inclusive Experiences at Historic Sites
There has been a longstanding belief from both academics and the public that the goal of historical preservation and conservation is to maintain a site’s…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastSplit at the Sand Wall: The Western Sahara Conflict and the Divergence of Sahrawi Identity in exile and under occupation
How does a group's identity change if it is subject to two vastly different conditions? How has Sahrawi identity developed in exile and under occupation? In…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastLessons in Disobedience by Forasteros, Migrants and Nomads in Los ríos profundos by José María Arguedas and Huaco Retrato by Gabriela Wiener
In this episode, Natalia Hernandez Somarriba, a second-year PhD student in Modern Languages, explores how literature can illuminate the ongoing legacies of…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastMuseum Ocularcentricity and Visual Impairment: Critical Points and Perspectives
How can museums, traditionally visual spaces, become more accessible to visually impaired audiences? In this episode, Renato Trotta, a PhD candidate in Museum…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastIndigenous and Local Knowledge of Fisher Folk: Comparative Analysis of Kenya and Ghana.
In this episode of CMR Podcast, Allan Mjomba Majalia, a third-year PhD student in Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, School of Geography…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastChristian minorities of Egypt
In the first episode of the 4th season of the CMR Podcast, Sara Allam Shaltout, a PhD candidate at the School of International Relations, delves into the…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastConversation on Transactional Sex and Humanitarianism
In this episode, Michelle Alm Engvall, social researcher, MA in Anthropology and Humanitarian Action; Megan Denise Smith, Protection and Gender Specialist…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastHierarchies of Otherness: Examining the history of Romani Marginalisation in the Early-Modern Swedish Empire
In this episode, Natalie Smith, a PhD candidate in the School of History, examines an anthropological account of the Roma written by the priest Cristfried…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastA Conversation on Chinese-Jamaican Life Experiences.
In this podcast, Yichi and her research interlocutor Shannon Chen-See Nehemiah discuss Shannon’s life experiences growing up as a fourth-generation Chinese…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastStudying the Black Experience in Fascist Italy
Tilly Lyons, a PhD student in Italian and History, gives a brief overview of the history of Africans in Italy between 1922 and 1945. In this episode, she…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastEthnic concentration effects on the partnership, employment, and housing patterns of ethnic minorities in the UK
Parth Pandya, a PhD student in Demography, discusses their first PhD chapter looking at the effects of ethnic concentration on the partnership, employment, and…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastEnvironmental Justice and Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria
Racheal Inegbedion, a graduate from the masters of Science in Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, discusses her policy report dissertation…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastMinority Languages and their Reception in Germany
Aimée Capraro, an undergraduate student of German at the University of St Andrews, discusses the place of minority languages in Germany with a special focus on…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastReconnecting Heritage: Repatriation and Museums
This CMR episode is in collaboration with Two Friends Talk History podcast, hosted and produced by Zofia Guertin, a PhD Candidate in the School of Classics. In…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastDiversity in Green Film: A conversation with St Andrews Green Film Festival
In this episode, Erica Ostlander, an undergraduate at the University of St Andrews studying film studies and sustainable development, discusses the importance…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastCaptain Jeffrey Hudson: Court Dwarf, Wonder, Entertainer, Courtier, Captain of Horse and Caroline England’s Greatest Man
In this episode, listen to St. Andrews History PhD student, Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart, as they tell the forgotten life story of the Greatest Man from the…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastDiversifying English and Higher Education
In this episode Anisha Minocha and Nishita Koushik, both undergraduates in English at the University of St Andrews, will be discussing their own experiences…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastGrowing Flowers in the Desert: A Conversation with the Lemon Tree Trust
Growing Flowers in the Desert: A Conversation with the Lemon Tree Trust will reveal how one packet of seeds can bring hope to even the most desolate of…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastIs inclusivity an academic skill?
In this episode Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, a PhD Candidate in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews talks to Lara Jost, a PhD Candidate in…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastPinkwashing and queer grassroot activism in Palestine/Israel
In this episode Manar Kawasmi, a PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews talks to Haneen Maikey, a Palestinian feminist queer…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastDiversifying a Discipline: The Expanding German Studies Network
In this episode, we discover the Expanding German Studies network with one of its founders, Dr Tom Smith, a Lecturer in German Studies at the School of Modern…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastThe life of Behrooz Boochani: a study of refugee identity in “No Friends but the Mountains”
In our fifth episode Parisa Saghafian, a recent graduate student from the University of St. Andrews in the Erasmus Mundus Masters of Crossways in Cultural…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastGender sensitivity in Languages
In our fourth episode, Federica Consiglio, an undergraduate in German and Comparative Literature at the University of St. Andrews, analyses different points of…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastA conversation with Laura Moncada: Women and girls issues in Venezuela
Our third episode features Laura Jane Henderson, a Scottish second-year International Relations and Spanish undergraduate student at the University of St…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastThe life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
In our second episode, Sam Osborn, a third-year PhD student in German Studies (SoML) at the University of St Andrews, explores the life of Charlotte von…
Centre for Minorities Research PodcastA conversation with Dr Ankur Datta: Displacement among Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmiri
In the inaugural episode, Camila Marinelli, a second-year PhD student in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, is joined by Dr Ankur Datta…