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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/fg12
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The ISRF expects applications for grants up to a maximum of €8,700 (or £7,500 for UK-based applicants).
For more information, visit isrf.org/competitions/fg12
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New Books Network podcast!
In this conversation, our convenor Pauline Heinrichs talks to @PeterJNewell_ about his book States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society.
Check it out!
bisa.ac.uk/members/working-g…
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How do housing policies meant to "integrate" #Roma communities push them to the margins?
Beatriz Aragon examines infrastructural violence & #antigypsism in #Madrid's informal settlements.
#HousingJustice
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ISRF retweeted
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Podcast interview with Pauline Heinrichs for @NewBooksNetwork about my new @CambridgeUniPre book States of Transition
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… @SussexGlobal @SPRU @sus_pol
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Ducking and Facing the British University’s Great Contraction
In this month's Director's Note, @cnewf discusses the importance of articulating the risks of the #HigherEducation sector's Great Contraction, which the UK government fails to acknowledge.
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Cutting Through The Noise
How can we not only cultivate our pessimism of the intellect, but also foster an optimism of the political will against all odds? In this Bulletin contribution, Milan Babić suggests three avenues that might help with this task.
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Apply Now! Our 8th Mid-Career Fellowship competition aims to support independent-minded researchers to explore & present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems.
More Info: isrf.org/competitions/mcf8
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For more information on competition terms & conditions, and eligibility, please visit isrf.org/competitions/mcf8
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The Politics in Political Gambling
Fuelled by the ideology of #PoliticalGambling as a pure form of intellectual brinksmanship, gambling interests gain access to the state via individuals on their way into power & profit from that continued association.
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States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society
@PeterJNewell_'s new book examines state power within broader social relations to explore the possibilities and challenges of building a ‘transition state’.
isrf.org/blog/states-of-tran…
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COP30: Children and young people at climate talks: seen, photographed, but not allowed to decide anything
by Florencia Paz Landeira, Alicia O'Sullivan, @ProfAoifeDaly and Katie Reid
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New Article: ISRF Early Career Fellow Arash Beidollahkhani, "From predicting dissent to programming power; analyzing AI-driven authoritarian governance in the Middle East through TRIAD framework" in @democ_journal
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