Centre for Minorities Research Podcast

About Centre for Minorities Research 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

Publisher

University of St Andrews CMR Podcast

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 May 2021

Latest episode

7 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

30 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Aug 2026

   Who Gets Left Out: Minority Communities, Healthcare Data, and the Cost of Being Invisible

   When clinical research, biomedical datasets, and diagnostic tools are built predominantly on the experiences of white, Western populations, what happens to everyone else? In this episode, I examine the deep and persistent underrepresentation of minority ethnic groups in healthcare research, and trace how that absence carries real consequences, from skewed drug trials and missed diagnoses to artificial intelligence systems that simply do not work on the patients who need them most. Drawing on research spanning the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, the episode makes the case that health equity cannot be achieved without first confronting who the healthcare system has historically chosen to study, and who it has chosen to ignore.

2. 

   7 Jul 2026

   Recognised by No State: Statelessness, Human Security, and the Violence of Non-Recognition

   In this episode, Luci Portugal speaks with Aleksejs Ivashuk, founder of Apatride Network (https://apatride.eu) and a leading advocate on statelessness in Europe, about what it means to live without recognition as a national by any state. Moving beyond statelessness as a technical legal issue, the conversation explores how non-recognition shapes access to rights, mobility, education, work, healthcare, identity, and belonging. Through the lens of critical security studies, Luci and Aleksejs discuss statelessness as a form of human insecurity, asking whose security is protected by the state system and whose insecurity is made ordinary by it. The episode also considers Hannah Arendt’s idea of the “right to have rights,” the role of borders and citizenship deprivation, and why stateless-led advocacy is essential to producing knowledge and change. Resources Foster, M., & Lambert, H. (2016). Statelessness as a Human Rights Issue: A Concept Whose Time Has Come. International Journal of Refugee Law, 28(4), 564–584. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eew044 Gheciu, A., & Wohlforth, W. C. (Eds). (2018). The Oxford handbook of international security. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198777854.001.0001 Guillaume, X., & Grayson, K. (2023). Security Studies: Critical Perspectives (1st edn). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198867487.001.0001 Hayden, P. (2008). From Exclusion to Containment: Arendt, Sovereign Power, and Statelessness. Societies Without Borders, 3(2), 248–269. https://doi.org/10.1163/187219108X300046 Kingston, L. N. (2013). “A Forgotten Human Rights Crisis”: Statelessness and Issue (Non)Emergence. Human Rights Review, 14(2), 73–87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-013-0264-4 Rossi, N., & Riemann, M. (Eds). (2024). Security studies: An applied introduction. Sage. Van Waas, L. (2014). ‘Are We There Yet?’ The Emergence of Statelessness on the International Human Rights Agenda. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 32(4), 342–346. https://doi.org/10.1177/016934411403200402 Related further reading: Berkeley, B. (2009). Stateless People, Violent States. World Policy Journal, 26(1), 3–15. https://doi.org/10.1162/wopj.2009.26.1.3

3. 

   5 Jun 2026

   Indigenous people of Russia: Challenges and hopes of antiwar activism

   How do Indigenous people of Russia respond to the war in Ukraine and the tightening of repressions at home? In this episode, Evgeniya Pakhomova, a social anthropologist specialising in Russian antiwar activism, interviews Lana Pylaeva, an indigenous activist from the republic of Komi and director of regional media Komi.Daily. Evgeniya presents the context for the new wave of Indigenous activism that emerged in response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, while Lana talks about her own activist experience, the international work she does as the newly elected representative of the Russian democratic forces at PACE, and the struggles of antiwar activism today. We conclude on a hopeful note, with Lana reflecting on how, despite the numerous challenges, Indigenous activists have managed to create a space for conversation and solidarity.

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Engagement

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