Philosophers! I am now eligible to act as a supervisor for Marie Curie fellowships at the University of Vienna. If you’re interested in applying for one, you can find the details here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/research-...
The ruins of the 12th century Hovedøya Abbey on a sunny day, surrounded by melting ice.
Selfie on the B1 ferry.
Munch's "Under the Stars" painting.
In Gründerløkka, a view of the painted walls of Ingensteds from a bridge.
Had the most wonderful time in Oslo giving a talk on methodological nationalism in Alejandra Mancilla's Dynamic Territory project. Managed to squeeze in a ferry trip to Hovedøya (s/o to Andrea Foss for the rec!), a trip to the Munch gallery, and a wander round Grünerløkka too.
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I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!
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How do institutions communicate about #migration?
With @jamesrdennison.bsky.social & @mcduarte.bsky.social, we built a database of migration communication campaigns in Europe.
We’re expanding it now. Do you know a campaign? Please take this 1-min survey.
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For the Autumn 2026 issue of Theology in Scotland on #migration and #belonging we'd love to hear from people in Scotland working in migrant services + policy. Can you help us spread the word?
Full details/submission info: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...
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The museum interior, in which several lights are displayed
Exterior of the old Kinnaird Head lighthouse on a cold winter day
Interior of the old lighthouse, featuring a spiral staircase and weighted mechanism
Pages from the store book at the Mull of Kintyre, dated 1925.
Went to the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, it was pretty rad
Yeah, I've been well familiarised with the cons of these roles & have my reasons, would only take on the right role etc etc
Just putting it out there: I'm at a career stage where I'm keen to get some journal editorial experience. Tell your pals.
📣 Call for abstracts! We're seeking one more speaker to complete the lineup for our upcoming workshop "Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective". Further details available on the PhilEvents page below.
Submission deadline: Friday 20th March
Contact: eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk
Featuring the wonderful @artsofdenial.bsky.social @kwpolphil.bsky.social @negsaunders.bsky.social and @bradleyhsmith.bsky.social.
📣 CFA - please share! Seeking one more speaker to join this upcoming workshop on Migration & Asylum in Scotland on 29th April. Funding available for reasonable travel costs & one night's hotel in Aberdeen. Early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.
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Looking forward to presenting in the Dynamic Territory Project's DynamiTE seminar series at the University of Oslo later this term!
www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...
Congrats - sounds super interesting & timely.
It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. Sam and I have worked on this since we first put our heads together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we were writing and thinking.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
En route to BIAPT through the snow ❄️
✍️ Please sign and share my latest petition!
In November, the government announced plans to amend the British Nationality Act to make citizenship harder to obtain.
So after migrants meet new ILR requirements, they'll wait longer, pay more, jump through MORE hoops.
🧵 Here's why this is unfair… /1
Out today: MPS Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland survey 2025
migrationpolicyscotland.org.uk/publications...
Interesting (perhaps not so surprising) results.
📣 PhDs & postdocs: Our Call for Papers is now open! If you work on (de)polarization including migration, media or radical right parties — come to Dresden in June 2026. We’re eager to see what ideas, cases and theories are out there!. Please share!
@tudresden.bsky.social @gsw-tudresden.bsky.social
📣 The University of Aberdeen is offering 3 AHRC Doctoral Landscape funding awards for doctoral studentships across the arts and humanities.
Prospective Philosophy applicants can contact eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk. Further info:
Lastly, I'll add that the experience of co-authoring with Matt was great. As a grad student, it was invaluable experience, and really helped set my expectations about what productive co-authorship could look like.
(My own position is most thoroughly articulated in this STP piece: www.pdcnet.org/soctheorprac...)
As a PSA: I was a PhD candidate when we co-authored this (!!) and Matt & I have slightly different views on some aspects of this topic. Though we overlap on many things, some parts of the paper mostly reflect his views; others better reflect mine.
📣 The chapter Matt Lister and I co-authored on refugee family reunion is now out in the Handbook of Migration Ethics. Our paper surveys several important questions & issues worthy of further consideration in this under-explored topic.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Beautiful autumn day for the first day of teaching.
Text: Successive UK Governments have increased costs and restrictions in the UK immigration system. Talent is vital, but 96% of UK cancer researchers report barriers when recruiting international researchers.
New report 🚨
Our 2025 analysis shows the mounting impacts of the UK immigration system: over £870,000 cost, challenges to recruit and delays to life-saving cancer research.
Read more: bit.ly/CRUK2025visasblog
⛰️ After the summer school, Anna, Esmé, and Eilidh joined a group trip to the Wudang mountains. Hosted by the Wudangshan Daoist Association and led by Dr Xuelin Deng, they learned about Daoist practice and visited several Daoist temples, including the Golden Palace and the Purple Cloud Temple. (2/2)
📚☀️🇨🇳 Aberdeen Philosophy students Anna, Esmé, Itzel, and Tom had a great time participating in the Political Philosophy Summer School at Wuhan University this month! Our Eilidh Beaton also attended and delivered three lectures in the programme. (1/2)
philo.whu.edu.cn/info/1011/74...
For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
