Centre for Security Research

CeSeR 2026 Annual Conference call for papers

CeSeR 2025 Annual Conference call for papers

New research funding awarded for project on peacekeeping

Call for papers for 2024 Centre for Security Research and Centre of African Studies Conference Now Open

The CeSeR annual conference for 2024 will be joint with the Centre of African Studies with the theme 'Security in Africa: Actors, logics and futures.' Deadline for abstracts is November 20th.

New research funding for project on critical maritime infrastructure in the Greater North Sea region

CeSeR member Andrew Neal wins funding under the Copenhagen-Edinburgh Strategic Partnership fund for new research on critical maritime infrastructure in the Greater North Sea region.

2023 CeSeR Annual Conference Summary

Learn more about CeSeR's 2023 Annual Conference, held on April 25, with the theme 'Securing the Self in Strange Places and Times.'

Call for papers open for CeSeR annual conference

The theme for this year's CeSeR annual conference is 'Securing the Self in Strange Places and Times.' The call for papers is now open.

CeSeR annual conference

We invite contributions to our annual conference on the theme of 'The Documents of Security'.

9/11: Reflections on security 20 years on

A series of videos personal and professional reflections from CeSeR members on 9/11

Parliaments and security conference 23-24 June 2021

CeSeR’s 2021 annual conference was on ‘Parliaments and Security’. While parliaments’ roles in security have often been neglected in practice and in scholarship, the importance of parliaments in security has received significant attention in recent years.

Book launch - Security as Politics: Beyond the State of Exception

Andrew W. Neal argues that while ‘security’ was once an anti-political ‘exception’ in liberal democracies – a black box of secret intelligence and military decision-making at the dark heart of the state – it has now become normalised in professional political life.

Edinburgh Food Dialogues podcast, with David Nabarro

A new podcast by the The Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security, ‘Edinburgh Food Dialogues, with David Nabarro’, based on a January 2020 event co-sponsored by CeSeR, is available for download now.