John Sutton
@suttonprofessor.bsky.social
Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
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We’re co-hosting with the Centre for Policy, Conflict and Co-operation Research: A Personal Account of Transforming Conflict, with Andrei Gómez-Suárez, Delegate of the Colombian government to negotiations with Comuneros del Sur.
📍 Cottrell Lecture Theatre A3
🔗 www.stir.ac.uk/events/2025-...
📍 Cottrell Lecture Theatre A3
🔗 www.stir.ac.uk/events/2025-...
January 16, 2026 at 2:16 PM
We’re co-hosting with the Centre for Policy, Conflict and Co-operation Research: A Personal Account of Transforming Conflict, with Andrei Gómez-Suárez, Delegate of the Colombian government to negotiations with Comuneros del Sur.
📍 Cottrell Lecture Theatre A3
🔗 www.stir.ac.uk/events/2025-...
📍 Cottrell Lecture Theatre A3
🔗 www.stir.ac.uk/events/2025-...
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The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm
January 13, 2026 at 1:47 PM
The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm
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Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
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January 14, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
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A hybrid talk on emotion in law and the high-stakes roles of memory and place. Drawing on 15 years of ethnographic research: what happens when there is no figure in the landscape? How do courts read remorse?
Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
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Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
Register bit.ly/4aTdI2Q
January 13, 2026 at 3:49 PM
A hybrid talk on emotion in law and the high-stakes roles of memory and place. Drawing on 15 years of ethnographic research: what happens when there is no figure in the landscape? How do courts read remorse?
Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
Register bit.ly/4aTdI2Q
Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
Register bit.ly/4aTdI2Q
Lovely new volume from Marco Bernini & Ben Alderson-Day's 'Threshold Worlds' project. In permeable and immersive dreams, what narrative genres sculpt dream experiences and reports? My chapter shifts from my own survey response to plasticity and anachronism in the sciences and history of dreams.
January 10, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Lovely new volume from Marco Bernini & Ben Alderson-Day's 'Threshold Worlds' project. In permeable and immersive dreams, what narrative genres sculpt dream experiences and reports? My chapter shifts from my own survey response to plasticity and anachronism in the sciences and history of dreams.
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What makes a place convivial? Join Professor Michael Given for a seminar on soil, herd, and home in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland from the 17th to 19th centuries - 22 January 2026 - 16:00–17:30 (UK) - Hybrid - Register now bit.ly/3Z4NDGJ
January 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM
What makes a place convivial? Join Professor Michael Given for a seminar on soil, herd, and home in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland from the 17th to 19th centuries - 22 January 2026 - 16:00–17:30 (UK) - Hybrid - Register now bit.ly/3Z4NDGJ
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Our researcher Paul Morin was live this morningon France Culture to talk about a memory law Algeria just passed on colonisation.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Pourquoi l’Algérie criminalise-t-elle la colonisation française maintenant ?
Le Parlement algérien a adopté mercredi 24 décembre à l'unanimité une loi criminalisant la colonisation française. Cette loi réclame aussi des "excuses officielles" à la France. Pourquoi cette loi int...
www.radiofrance.fr
December 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Our researcher Paul Morin was live this morningon France Culture to talk about a memory law Algeria just passed on colonisation.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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"Constellations in Ruins" is a new photo-essay by our researcher Dale Leorke with Christopher Wood, examining GPS not as background tech but as a material and environmental force in our world amidst ecological crisis.
mediaenviron.org/post/3608-co...
mediaenviron.org/post/3608-co...
"Constellations in Ruins: GPS in the Anthropocene" by Dale Leorke and Christopher Wood | Published by Media+Environment
A photo essay exploring the hidden infrastructures of global navigation satellite systems and their entanglement with contemporary life.
mediaenviron.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"Constellations in Ruins" is a new photo-essay by our researcher Dale Leorke with Christopher Wood, examining GPS not as background tech but as a material and environmental force in our world amidst ecological crisis.
mediaenviron.org/post/3608-co...
mediaenviron.org/post/3608-co...
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From our seed funding scheme: Workshop: Dialogue and Agency in Video Games
Friday January 23rd, 11am-2pm GMT (online)
For more information, and to book a free place, please go to
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Friday January 23rd, 11am-2pm GMT (online)
For more information, and to book a free place, please go to
www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-d...
Workshop: Dialogue and Agency in Video Games
A free online workshop for game developers, writers and researchers
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December 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
From our seed funding scheme: Workshop: Dialogue and Agency in Video Games
Friday January 23rd, 11am-2pm GMT (online)
For more information, and to book a free place, please go to
www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-d...
Friday January 23rd, 11am-2pm GMT (online)
For more information, and to book a free place, please go to
www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-d...
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Is the over use of SatNavs causing potential future problems for the population. I discuss with writer Moheb Costandi in his section of this article on
Five voices on the future of human intelligence:
newhumanist.org.uk/articles/648...
Five voices on the future of human intelligence:
newhumanist.org.uk/articles/648...
Five voices on the future of human intelligence
How can we all stay smart in a changing world? We asked the experts
newhumanist.org.uk
December 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Is the over use of SatNavs causing potential future problems for the population. I discuss with writer Moheb Costandi in his section of this article on
Five voices on the future of human intelligence:
newhumanist.org.uk/articles/648...
Five voices on the future of human intelligence:
newhumanist.org.uk/articles/648...
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Affective Atmospheres, a two-day in-person event in Glasgow — supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
All welcome.
18–19 Feb 2026
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
Info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art by Jinjoon Lee: Jinjoon Lee, On Some Faraway Shore – Nine Reincarnations Series, 2025.
All welcome.
18–19 Feb 2026
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
Info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art by Jinjoon Lee: Jinjoon Lee, On Some Faraway Shore – Nine Reincarnations Series, 2025.
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Affective Atmospheres, a two-day in-person event in Glasgow — supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
All welcome.
18–19 Feb 2026
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
Info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art by Jinjoon Lee: Jinjoon Lee, On Some Faraway Shore – Nine Reincarnations Series, 2025.
All welcome.
18–19 Feb 2026
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
Info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art by Jinjoon Lee: Jinjoon Lee, On Some Faraway Shore – Nine Reincarnations Series, 2025.
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Research isn’t always in a lab or a library. Our researchers Tania Casimiro and Paula Reavey were in London (E1, E2, E3) last week studying toilet graffiti.
December 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Research isn’t always in a lab or a library. Our researchers Tania Casimiro and Paula Reavey were in London (E1, E2, E3) last week studying toilet graffiti.
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Research isn't always in a lab or library...
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Research isn't always in a lab or library...
It has been a big first year - and will be bigger - and wilder - in 2026 now we have all 7 Research Fellows and 8 PhD Researchers on board. Well done!
Not all research happens in a lab or a library. From London loos to the Pacific Ocean to postindustrial coastlines, our researchers have been out in the wild this year. Here’s to more fieldwork in unexpected places.
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It has been a big first year - and will be bigger - and wilder - in 2026 now we have all 7 Research Fellows and 8 PhD Researchers on board. Well done!
Register now - two-day in-person interdisciplinary - in Glasgow - not hybrid!
Affective Atmospheres
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy
In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
More info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy
In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
More info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Register now - two-day in-person interdisciplinary - in Glasgow - not hybrid!
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New preprint alert!
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
OSF
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November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New preprint alert!
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Our researchers in the deep wilds of London toilet graffiti...
Our researchers @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and Paula Reavey are in London (E1,2,3) studying toilet graffiti. Sometimes our research projects get us to unconventional places
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Our researchers in the deep wilds of London toilet graffiti...
Our research in the NYT... bravo Pablo!
The project about how indigenous navigators find their way across the Pacific Ocean, in which our researcher @pfvelasco.bsky.social participates, is in the New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...
A Voyage Into the Art of Finding One’s Way at Sea
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Our research in the NYT... bravo Pablo!
Registration coming soon...
Save the date: 18–19 Feb 2026, Civic House, Glasgow.
Affective Atmospheres — a two-day, in-person conference supported by the @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Talks, conversations and creative sessions with researchers and artists. Open to all. Speakers + registration soon.
Art: Jinjoon Lee ©2025
Affective Atmospheres — a two-day, in-person conference supported by the @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Talks, conversations and creative sessions with researchers and artists. Open to all. Speakers + registration soon.
Art: Jinjoon Lee ©2025
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Registration coming soon...
'Imperial Intimacies: a tale of two islands' by Hazel Carby (published 2019): best in any or many genres I've read this year, rigorous creative history & powerful personal & family memory mutually inform each other, heartbreaking, passionate, legitimately angry www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Imperial Intimacies
‘Where are you from?’ was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post–World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mot...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
'Imperial Intimacies: a tale of two islands' by Hazel Carby (published 2019): best in any or many genres I've read this year, rigorous creative history & powerful personal & family memory mutually inform each other, heartbreaking, passionate, legitimately angry www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
'Women, Housing, and Place' at Stirling: Mhairi-Jean Ross reports on a great symposium co-sponsored by @memoryplace.bsky.social, & eg @tmcasimiro.bsky.social on women's spatial, material, architectural strategies in 'illegal' Lisbon neighbourhoods www.housing-studies-association.org/articles/cel...
Celebrating the ‘Women, Housing & Place’ Symposium at the University of Stirling
The University of Stirling welcomed researchers, practitioners, and campaigners to campus for a one-day symposium on Women, Housing & Place.
www.housing-studies-association.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
'Women, Housing, and Place' at Stirling: Mhairi-Jean Ross reports on a great symposium co-sponsored by @memoryplace.bsky.social, & eg @tmcasimiro.bsky.social on women's spatial, material, architectural strategies in 'illegal' Lisbon neighbourhoods www.housing-studies-association.org/articles/cel...
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Nicholas Evans, of our Advisory Board, is featured in The Observer – his decades of fieldwork open windows onto how people think, remember, and inhabit place through language — Read Laura Spinney’s profile: Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages observer.co.uk/news/science...
Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented lang...
Nicholas Evans has spent decades trying to decipher the undocumented tongues of Papua New Guinea and Australia. His work has redefined the way we think a...
observer.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Nicholas Evans, of our Advisory Board, is featured in The Observer – his decades of fieldwork open windows onto how people think, remember, and inhabit place through language — Read Laura Spinney’s profile: Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages observer.co.uk/news/science...
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Our researchers @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and Ruth Olsen are in Lismore doing fieldwork about the social memory of Loch Belnagown
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Our researchers @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and Ruth Olsen are in Lismore doing fieldwork about the social memory of Loch Belnagown
@memoryplace.bsky.social we’re hosting Tia Neha from Aotearoa New Zealand, sharing her striking research in developmental psychology of autobiographical memory, and for powerful discussions on ‘Ethical Memory: a kaupapa Māori philosophical backfill’, and on multiculturalism and indigenous community
October 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
@memoryplace.bsky.social we’re hosting Tia Neha from Aotearoa New Zealand, sharing her striking research in developmental psychology of autobiographical memory, and for powerful discussions on ‘Ethical Memory: a kaupapa Māori philosophical backfill’, and on multiculturalism and indigenous community
@memoryplace.bsky.social hosted Sarah Gensburger, sociologist of memory extraordinaire from Sciences Po - from our amazing Advisory Board - for two intensive workshops with our new PhDs, brilliant fun – and, wandering Stirling Uni's twisty corridors, we found these strange apt memory cushions!
October 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
@memoryplace.bsky.social hosted Sarah Gensburger, sociologist of memory extraordinaire from Sciences Po - from our amazing Advisory Board - for two intensive workshops with our new PhDs, brilliant fun – and, wandering Stirling Uni's twisty corridors, we found these strange apt memory cushions!