Tune in on Wednesdays for the latest episodes on the infrastructural crimes that shape the lives of colonised, racialised and marginalised communities– and how they are mobilising for liberated futures. The ISRF has supported the production Season 3. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4foFXH4

🎙️Season 3 of Material Crimes launches today! This podcast explores how infrastructure is made by global systems yet experienced and contested in locally. This week's episode - the legacy of the “Cape-to-Cairo” railway and the fight from activists today for a united Africa https://bit.ly/4prFjxe

There's still time to join us this evening for or the launch of 'Taming Egg Donors' by @anna-molas.bsky.social. Join us online and in person for a conversation with Molas, Chandra Kala Clemente-Martínez and Laura Perler on Spain's egg donation industry https://bit.ly/4tx5xzB

Our Dispatches continue with reflections from academics navigating the current #HigherEd landscape in the UK. Topics range from unpacking the impact of marketisation to academic freedom. Read more: https://isrf.org/projects/reconstructing-the-british-university 📷 Muhammed Zahid Bulut

🚨New publication! ISRF Fellow Kristina Kolbe brings care politics, political protest & creative justice emerging from creative work in dialogue with inequalities in the sector. Doing so, illustrates how arts & culture can be a catalyst for more equitable futures: https://bit.ly/4uBfxYV 📷 Ramil Ugot

Join us online & in Barcelona on 17th June for the launch of 'Taming Egg Donors' by @anna-molas.bsky.social. With Chandra Kala Clemente-Martínez & Laura Perler, the discussion will focus on the power dynamics of Spain's egg donation industry that serve to 'tame' women's bodies https://bit.ly/4tx5xzB

New publication: Yafa El Marsi reconceptualises Palestinian infiltration as a contemporary mode of research refusal, a situated decolonial practice that emerges where restitution remains structurally closed yet Indigenous ties to land & heritage are actively defended https://bit.ly/488xy7Z

@pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social upcoming book 'The Matter of Architecture' asks whether critical architecture can recover a more equitable relationship to the mineral world. Join us on 3rd June for a conversation with Dobraszczyk, Nishat Awan and Adam Walls to learn more https://bit.ly/47soV88

'Confronting the dilemmas of humanitarian borderwork: NGO engagements with Australian offshore detention'  This report examines Australian offshore detention  to explores the ethical and strategic challenges that humanitarian organisations face while trying to reduce harm https://bit.ly/47ELerc

In Kenya, grantees Dr Melita Lazell & Dr Ivica Petrikova with Dr Mel Bassett co-organised a workshop with the Uni. of Nairobi. Together, Kenyan and UK-based scholars, explored the #financialisation of development and its social implications. More on the project https://bit.ly/4lrKSJX

Apply Now! Our 12th Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition aims to provide flexible support for a period of (up to) one year for the activities of a small research group. Deadline 13th March 2026. More Info: isrf.org/competitions...

New Funding Call: ISRF Mid-Career Fellowship Deadline: 5pm GMT (6pm CET), Friday 30th January 2026 Candidates should be more than 10 years post-PhD award at the time of application. Awards provide full relief from all teaching & administration duties for up to 1 year. isrf.org/competitions...

Apply Now! Our 11th Independent Scholar competition aims to support #IndependentScholars to explore and present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems. #SocialScience #Humanities #Arts More Info: isrf.org/competitions...

Like Lockdown Never Happened - Documentary Screening Five years on from lockdown, we reflect on how music kept us going. Join us from 6:30pm on 3rd April at @blocqmul.bsky.social for a film screening and Q&A with author Joy White and director Amos Mukombero. isrf.org/events/like-...

Our second lecture series in partnership with @greshamcollege.bsky.social explores aspects of the global processes of #decolonisation, from the earliest European colonial expansions to the political and economic upheavals of the 20th century. Join us in-person or online, 9 & 30 April & 15 May.

On 7th March at @uoe-sps.bsky.social we'll be celebrating Jay Wiggan's book 'The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain' (@policypress.bsky.social), with commentary from Chris Grover and @annedaguerre.bsky.social, hosted by @lcornelissen.bsky.social. More info: isrf.org/events/polit...

What happens when the elitist space of “Western” classical music seeks to diversify itself? And what are the social effects worked through diversity discourses in classical music institutions?

On Thursday 23rd January in East London, we'll be launching Joy White's 'Like Lockdown Never Happened' (@repeaterbooks.bsky.social), with responses from Karis Campion, @drjadelevell.bsky.social & Nathaniel Télémaque. Join us from 6pm on Jan 23rd. Register at www.isrf.org/events/book-...

Apply Now! Our 8th Early Career competition aims to support independent-minded researchers - within 10 years of PhD award - to explore and present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems. More Info at www.isrf.org/funding-oppo...

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Sarah will be joined by @samerabdelnour.bsky.social, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at the University of Edinburgh Business School; and Kirsten McConnachie, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social. Register to attend: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isrf-book-...

Apply Now! Our 11th Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition, seeking to support small groups of scholars, enabling one or more short periods of face-to-face joint group work such as workshops, working-in-pairs, or short academic visits. www.isrf.org/funding-oppo...