Centre for Minorities Research Podcast

Centre for Minorities Research Podcast

University of St Andrews CMR Podcast

Episodes 26
Avg. Duration 29m
Activity Declining
Since May 2021
Latest Episode Jul 2025

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Monthly
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

This podcast is an extension of The University of St Andrews Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) a student-led initiative that reflects CMR’s core values of promoting dialogue between disciplines on all aspects of minority research. The podcast series provides a space for students to creatively explore their interests alongside experts from a range of fields and disciplines to co-produce collaborative knowledge for the contemporary age. For more information visit us at https://cmr.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Recent Episodes

S4E6 Authenticity and Accessibility: Reconciliation Towards More Equitable and Inclusive Experiences at Historic Sites

Jul 30, 2025 9m

There has been a longstanding belief from both academics and the public that the goal of historical preservation and conservation is to maintain a site’s authenticity. But what happens when that aim…

S4E5 Split at the Sand Wall: The Western Sahara Conflict and the Divergence of Sahrawi Identity in exile and under occupation

Jun 27, 2025 47m

How does a group's identity change if it is subject to two vastly different conditions? How has Sahrawi identity developed in exile and under occupation? In this episode, Maarten Weinrich, a…

S4E4 Lessons in Disobedience by Forasteros, Migrants and Nomads in Los ríos profundos by José María Arguedas and Huaco Retrato by Gabriela Wiener

Apr 25, 2025 16m

In this episode, Natalia Hernandez Somarriba, a second-year PhD student in Modern Languages, explores how literature can illuminate the ongoing legacies of coloniality and social inequality in…

S4E3 Museum Ocularcentricity and Visual Impairment: Critical Points and Perspectives

Mar 31, 2025 19m

How can museums, traditionally visual spaces, become more accessible to visually impaired audiences? In this episode, Renato Trotta, a PhD candidate in Museum and Gallery Studies, explores the…

S4E2 Indigenous and Local Knowledge of Fisher Folk: Comparative Analysis of Kenya and Ghana.

Feb 27, 2025 38m

In this episode of CMR Podcast, Allan Mjomba Majalia, a third-year PhD student in Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, discusses…

S4E1 Christian minorities of Egypt

Jan 29, 2025 24m

In the first episode of the 4th season of the CMR Podcast, Sara Allam Shaltout, a PhD candidate at the School of International Relations, delves into the complexities of church-state relations in…

S3E6 Conversation on Transactional Sex and Humanitarianism

Jul 01, 2024 54m

In this episode, Michelle Alm Engvall, social researcher, MA in Anthropology and Humanitarian Action; Megan Denise Smith, Protection and Gender Specialist, Independent Consultant and PhD candidate in…

S3E5 Hierarchies of Otherness: Examining the history of Romani Marginalisation in the Early-Modern Swedish Empire

Jun 03, 2024 22m

In this episode, Natalie Smith, a PhD candidate in the School of History, examines an anthropological account of the Roma written by the priest Cristfried Ganander in 1780, which marks the earliest…

S3E4 A Conversation on Chinese-Jamaican Life Experiences.

May 02, 2024 28m

In this podcast, Yichi and her research interlocutor Shannon Chen-See Nehemiah discuss Shannon’s life experiences growing up as a fourth-generation Chinese Jamaican and an active poet and artist.…

S3E3 Studying the Black Experience in Fascist Italy

Apr 02, 2024 28m

Tilly Lyons, a PhD student in Italian and History, gives a brief overview of the history of Africans in Italy between 1922 and 1945. In this episode, she contextualises the discursive landscape in…

S3E2 Ethnic concentration effects on the partnership, employment, and housing patterns of ethnic minorities in the UK

Mar 04, 2024 25m

Parth Pandya, a PhD student in Demography, discusses their first PhD chapter looking at the effects of ethnic concentration on the partnership, employment, and housing patterns of ethnic minorities…

S3E1 Environmental Justice and Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria

Feb 08, 2024 20m

Racheal Inegbedion, a graduate from the masters of Science in Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, discusses her policy report dissertation centred in the issue of environmental…

S2E6 Minority Languages and their Reception in Germany

Nov 28, 2022 34m

Aimée Capraro, an undergraduate student of German at the University of St Andrews, discusses the place of minority languages in Germany with a special focus on the linguistic varieties spoken by…

S2E5 Reconnecting Heritage: Repatriation and Museums

Oct 26, 2022 44m

This CMR episode is in collaboration with Two Friends Talk History podcast, hosted and produced by Zofia Guertin, a PhD Candidate in the School of Classics. In this episode Zofia interviews Dr…

S2E4 Diversity in Green Film: A conversation with St Andrews Green Film Festival

Sep 20, 2022 17m

In this episode, Erica Ostlander, an undergraduate at the University of St Andrews studying film studies and sustainable development, discusses the importance of upholding diversity in Hollywood,…

S2E3 Captain Jeffrey Hudson: Court Dwarf, Wonder, Entertainer, Courtier, Captain of Horse and Caroline England’s Greatest Man

Aug 25, 2022 44m

In this episode, listen to St. Andrews History PhD student, Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart, as they tell the forgotten life story of the Greatest Man from the Smallest County in all of England, Jeffrey…

S2E2 Diversifying English and Higher Education

Jul 19, 2022 34m

In this episode Anisha Minocha and Nishita Koushik, both undergraduates in English at the University of St Andrews, will be discussing their own experiences and challenges with the structure of…

S2E1 Growing Flowers in the Desert: A Conversation with the Lemon Tree Trust

Jun 02, 2022 31m

Growing Flowers in the Desert: A Conversation with the Lemon Tree Trust will reveal how one packet of seeds can bring hope to even the most desolate of situations. In this podcast, Rachael Jefferies,…

S1E8 Is inclusivity an academic skill?

Feb 23, 2022 27m

In this episode Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, a PhD Candidate in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews talks to Lara Jost, a PhD Candidate in Philosophy who also manages Philosophy's academic…

S1E7 Pinkwashing and queer grassroot activism in Palestine/Israel

Jan 25, 2022 37m

In this episode Manar Kawasmi, a PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews talks to Haneen Maikey, a Palestinian feminist queer activist and organiser. Haneen is the…

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