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New Publication – A Critical Analysis of the Impacts & Discursive Framework of Surveillance Capitalism
Mikey Ettlinger (University of Bristol)
March 2, 2021
Brigstow Institute Research Funding and Fellowship Announcement
Patterson Deppen (University of Bristol)
February 1, 2021
The Magic of Social Life
Patterson Deppen (University of Bristol)
January 28, 2021
Funding Opportunity – SPIN Fellowships
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
January 16, 2021
BISA Conference CFP: Forget International Studies?
Patterson Deppen (University of Bristol)
December 19, 2020
New Publication – Seeing and unseeing Prevent’s racialized borders
Dr. Nadya Ali (University of Sussex)
November 23, 2020
New Publication – Security in the Balance: How Britain Tried to Keep its Iraq War Secrets
Dr. Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)
November 3, 2020
New Publication – Truth and Consequences? Reconceptualizing the Politics of Exposure
Dr. Lisa Stampnitzky (University of Sheffield)
October 29, 2020
New Exhibition: SPIN, the A-Z of Secrecy and Ignorance at Bristol’s We the Curious Museum
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
October 20, 2020
SPIN at the Annual Millennium Conference
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
October 18, 2020
SPIN Art Commission: ‘Social Suffocation’, Olu Osinoiki, 2020
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
October 16, 2020
Decolonising the SPAIS Curriculum: New Prelim Report Released
Lauren Hutfield (Bristol)
October 12, 2020
Essay – Catfishing and the ocularcentric: how secrecy and visualities are interconnected
Sophie Peachey, Final Year Student, Politics and International Relations BSc, University of Bristol
August 13, 2020
New publication by SPIN member -‘What do bisexuals look like? I don’t know!’ Visibility, gender, and safety among plurisexuals, 2020
Dr. Rosie Nelson, University of Bristol
August 7, 2020
Learning and Unlearning – A primer on critical race studies, postcolonial and decolonial work
Lauren Hutfield, University of Bristol
July 20, 2020
New publication by SPIN member: The Intelligence War Against the Irish Republican Army, 2020
Dr. Thomas Leahy, Cardiff University
July 14, 2020
SPIN awarded new funding for 2020-2021
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol
July 10, 2020
COVID-19 and the Politics of Knowledge: An Issue and Media Source Primer
Sif Beyer-Hunt, Jessie Carter, Audrey Goh, Ningning Li, and Sarah M. Natumanya, SPAIS Undergraduate and Postgraduate students, with Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol
May 14, 2020
Presentation – Commodification, heteronormativity and the interplay of sexuality and secrecy
Maddy Russell, Final Year Student, Politics and International Relations BSc, University of Bristol
May 7, 2020
Essay – Spotify’s datamining practices: An example of surveillance capitalism?
Jekaterina Vinogradova, Final Year Student, Politics and International Relations with Study Abroad BSc, University of Bristol
April 30, 2020
Essay – See it, Say it, (Panoptic) Sorted: The rail passenger as ‘inspector’ in a National Rail surveillance campaign
Alice Chancellor, Final Year Student, Politics and International Relations with Study Abroad BSc, University of Bristol
April 22, 2020
New publication – National Security, the Democratic Oversight Narrative and Freedom of Information
Dr. Peter Finn (Kingston University)
February 27, 2020
New publication – Everyday secrecy: Oral history and the social life of a top-secret weapons research establishment during the Cold War
Prof. William Walters, Carleton University
January 24, 2020
Ignorance experts (yes that is a thing) welcome!
November 6, 2019
New publication by SPIN member – Secrecy’s subjects: special operators in the US Shadow War
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol
October 21, 2019
Essay – Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre
Joanna Coulson, Graduate, Politics and Internationa Relations, University of Bristol
July 22, 2019
Essay – The Secret Ballot
Matt O'Brien, Graduate, Politics and International Relations, University of Bristol
June 22, 2019
Essay – The white (silent) powerful woman: A Critical Gendered Analysis of Secrecy in Bier’s ‘Bird Box’
Liberty O’Hagan, Graduate, Politics and International Graduate, University of Bristol
June 22, 2019
Conference Panel CFP: Critically Secret: Knowledge-Making and Unmaking in International Relations
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol
May 22, 2019
Essay – Researching Secrecy Amidst the Ruins of Orford Ness
Professor William Walters, Benjamin Meaker Visiting Research Professor, University of Bristol
December 24, 2018
Workshop CFP: Secrecy and (In)Security: New Perspectives
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol
January 1, 2018