22nd October 2016, Peter Hopkins presented a keynote at the National Black Crown Prosecution Association annual conference, London. The conference was called 'Stop Islamophobia: tackling discrimination and defending the equality and human rights of Muslims' and was run in collaboration with the CPS Muslim staff network.
31st Aug-2nd September, Peter Hopkins presented a paper about young people, racism and diversity at the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London.
14th-16th July 2016, Peter Hopkins presented a paper about intersectionality and locality and participated in a panel session about intersectionality at the International Conference on Feminist Geographies and Intersectionality: Places, Identities and Knowledges, Barcelona.
7th June 2016, Peter Hopkins presented key findings form the project about Islamophobia to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia, Palace of Westminster, London.
7th May 2016, Kate Botterill and Peter Hopkins presented the study findings at a dissemination event at Merkinch Community Centre, Inverness.
26th April 2016, Peter Hopkins presented a keynote paper about the project findings at the Equality Challenge Unit Scotland Conference 'Progressing equality and diversity in Scottish further and higher education, Glasgow.
25th April 2016, Kate Botterill, Peter Hopkins and Gurchathen Sanghera presented the study findings at a dissemination event at the Lighthouse, Glasgow.
29th March-2nd April 2016, Peter Hopkins presented a paper about ethnic and religious minority young people's experiences of misrecognition at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, San Francisco. At this conference, Peter also participated in a panel discussion focused on current debates about geographies of the body. Peter was also a discussant for two separate sessions, one about the intersections between masculinities and ethnicities and the second about gender and generational relations.
15th March 2016, Rowena Arshad presented key themes and lessons learnt from the project at an ESRC mini sermins series on 'Teacher Education for the Changing Demographics of Schooling: policy, practice and research', University of Edinburgh.
9th March 2016, Peter Hopkins presented the study findings to the Cross Party Group on Racial Equality in Scotland at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh.
16th February 2016, Gurchathen Sanghera and Kate Botterill presented the study findings at a dissemination event which was hosted by AMINA-MWRC, Dundee.
1st Feburary 2016, Rowena Arshad presented key findings from the project to the Scottish Government Hate Crimes and Community Cohesion Advisory Group.
18th January 2016, Peter Hopkins presented the study findings at a dissemination event at Dumfries and Galloway Multicultural Association, Dumfries.
6th January 2016, Rowena Arshad presented a keynote about the research at the 29th International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
4th December 2015, Rowena Arshad presented the study findings at a dissemination event at Edinburgh City Council Chambers. This was chaired by Ian Fyfe from our Project Advisory Group.
19th-21st November 2015, Rowena Arshad presented a paper on 'Visibility, misrecognition, intersectionality and pupil voice: getting it right for every child - does this include me? This was presented at the Scottish Educational and World Educational Research Conference, University of Edinburgh.
18th November 2015, Peter Hopkins and Rowena Arshad presented insights into race equality in Scotland at an event on 'A 'Scottish approach' to race equality?: new directions in policy and identity', Royal Society of Edinburgh.
11th November 2015, Peter Hopkins presented a paper about 'Encountering misrecognition: being mistaken for being Muslim' at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield.
5th-6th November 2015, Peter Hopkins presented a keynote about 'Misrecognition, racism and interethnic relations for black and minority ethnic young people in urban Scotland' at the Young Divercities-encountering and living with hyper-diversity: young people's urban experiences conference, Utrecht.
4th November 2015, Rowena Arshad led an interactive workshop reporting on key findings from the project at the YouthLink Annual Conference, Cumbernauld. This session enabled youth workers to consider how the findings impact on their work.
19th-20th October 2015, Kate Botterill presented a paper about why youth identity matters at the 'Youth migrant identities in Scotland' conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. This was organised by Stirling, Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities. Rowena Arshad was one of the co-organisers.
15th October 2015, Rowena Arshad discussed the key findings of the project to undergraduate students studying Race, Ethnicity and Migration at Stirling University.
6th October 2015, Kate Botterill presented a keynote paper about Islamophobia in Scotland at Amina (The Muslim Women's Resource Centre) conference on 'Understanding and Tackling Islamophobia', Glasgow, UK.
22nd September 2015, Peter Hopkins, Kate Botterill and Gurchathen Sanghera presented a seminar about young people's perspectives on Islamophobia at a Scottish Government lunchtime seminar, St Andrews House, Edinburgh, UK.
2nd September 2015, Rowena Arshad pressnted a keynote on the implications of our findings for school educators at the University of Edinburgh School of Education staff and doctoral student bi-annual conference on 'Interweaving: a tapestry of educational and multidisciplinary research in an international context'.
1-4th September 2015, Kate Botterill and Gurchathen Sanghera each presented a paper at the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, University of Exeter, UK. Kate presented a paper about the ontological security of ethnic and religious minority young people in the context of the Independence Referendum and Gurch presented a paper about the living rights of ethnic minority young people in Scotland. Peter Hopkins also presented a paper about the creation of a youth-centred research protocol at this conference. Kate and Peter organised a paper session on 'Geographies of Islamophobia'.
26-27th August, 2015, Peter Hopkins presented a keynote paper about the ways in which ethnic and religious minority young people in Scotland are mistaken for being Muslim at the Scottish Human Geography Postgraduate Advanced Training Residential, Kingdrogan, Scotland, UK.
11th August 2015, Peter Hopkins presented initial findings from the project to an in-service day for teachers, Shawlands Academy, Glasgow.
24-26th June 2015, Rowena Arshad presented a paper about issues for educators to reflect upon that have emerged from the project. This was presented at the Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES) annual conference on 'The stubborn persistence of racism: confronting racial inequality through education and action', University of Edinburgh, UK.
10-12th June 2015, Kate Botterill presented a paper about ethnic and religious minority young people and the Scottish independence referendum at the Emotional Geographies Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK.
8-11th June, 2015, Gurch Sanghera presented about paper about Islamophobia and silencing at the 'Understanding Conflict: research, ideas and responses to security threats' conference, University of Bath, UK.
13th May 2015, the fifth meeting of the Project Advisory Group.
21-25th April 2015, Kate Botterill presented a paper about ontological security and the Scottish independence referendum at the Association of American Geographers annual conference in Chicago, USA. This was part of a series of sessions about 'shared security futures' that Peter Hopkins co-organised with Kathrin Horschelmann, Catherine Cottrell and Matt Benwell. At the same conference, Peter Hopkins presented a paper about the ways in which non-Muslim black and ethnic minority young people in Scotland are misrecognised as Muslim and experience Islamophobia as a result of this. Peter was also a discussant on a panel session about young people and spaces of (in)security.
19-20th April 2015, Kate Botterill present a paper about intersectional identities, youth and Scottish independence at the 'Gendered Rights to the City: intersections of identity and power' Feminist Geography conference (Pre-AAG IGU Gender & Geography Commission Conference) at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. This was part of a conference session on 'urban intersectionalities' that was organised by Kate Botterill and Peter Hopkins.
13th March 2015, Peter Hopkins presented a seminar about 'racism, Islamophobia and the struggle for belonging' at the Cultural Significance of Place Research Group event on 'the need to belong: identity, solidarity and resistance in everyday life' at Newcastle University.
19th November 2014, Rowena Arshad presented a paper about Visibility, misrecognition, intersectionality and pupil vocie: getting it right for every child - does this include me? Scottish Educational and World Educational Research Conference, University of Edinburgh.
23rd October 2014, the fourth meeting of the Project Advisory Group
22nd October 2014, Peter Hopkins presented a seminar about the project at the Human Rights and Social Justice Forum in the Law Schol at Newcastle University.
23rd June 2014, Peter Hopkins presented a keynote about 'researching intersectionality and place' at the Children, Intersectionality and Social Justice seminar, University of Strathclyde, UK
20th June 2014, Kate Botterill presented a keynote on 'transitions, lifestyles, mobilities: becoming mobile in the European Union' at the summer Mobilities workshop, University of the West of England, Bristol.
22nd May 2014, Peter Hopkins presented at an event on 'Masculinity, Fashion and Faith: the missing link?' at the London College of Fashion.
29th April 2014, the third meeting of the Project Advisory Group
10-11th April 2014, Gurch Sanghera and Rowena Arshad pressnted a paper about the challenges, opportunities and transformations facing young Muslims in Scotland at the inaugural British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS) conference, University of Edinburgh, UK.
8-12th April 2014, Peter Hopkins presented a paper about everyday geopolitics in the surburbs at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida, USA. Peter and Kate co-organised a session (with Caroline Nagel (Southern Carolina) and Patricia Ehrkamp (Kentucky) about 'critical geographies of religion'. At the same conference, Kate Botterill also presented a paper about Polish migration and constructions of community.
12th March 2014, Kate Botterill and Peter Hopkins presented the project to the Power, Space Politics Research Cluster, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK
11th March 2014, Kate Botterill and Rowena Arshad presented the project to the Education, Community and Society seminar series, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK.
18th-19th December, 2013, Peter Hopkins presented a paper about young Sikh men being the mistaken targets of Islamophobia at the 'Doing citizenship in multi-cultural and multi-faith societies' conference, Kingston University, London
17th December 2013, the second meeting of the Project Advisory Group.
24th-26th September 2013, Kate Botterill presented a paper on 'Flexible Ethnography and Practice Stories for Migration' at the THEMIS 'Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond' Conference, Oxford University.
27th-30th August 2013, Kate Botterill and Peter Hopkins organised sessions and presented at the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual Confererence in London. Kate organised and chaired a session on 'Lifestyle migration and the state: new frontiers for population geography' and presented a paper (with Karen O'Reilly, Loughborough) about the promotion and regulation of western migration in Thailand and Malaysia. In addition to this, Kate also co-organised a session about 'Gender, Migration and mobility: new conversations in population and feminist geography'. At the same conference, Peter Hopkins contributed to a keynote panel about gendered violence and co-organised a session about children, young people and critical geopolitics in which he presented a paper about Sikh youth.
26th August 2013, the first meeting of the Project Advisory Group.
16th-28th June 2013, all team members participated in the CERES conference about 'Racism and anti-racism through education and community practice' at Edinburgh University. This was organised by Rowena Arshad. Gurchathan Sanghera and Kate Botterill presented a paper entitled 'Can ‘the Muslim’ speak? Debating Islamophobia as silence' and Peter Hopkins presented a paper about young Sikh men as the mistaken targets of Islamophobia.
17th March 2013, Peter Hopkins presented a lunchtime seminar about 'Looking Muslim' at the Geography Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
16th March 2013, Kate Botterill presented a paper at the IMISCOE workshop on Ageing and Migration. The paper was from a previous project on Lifestyle Migration in East Asia and was entitled 'Discordant Lifestyle Mobilities in East Asia: Privilege and Precarity of British Retirement in Thailand'.