John Sutton
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
- Reposted by John SuttonTwo weeks to go — free register now! No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976–84 Matthew Worley examines how British punk forged structures of feeling that still shape popular memory. 📅 Tue 17 Feb 2026 ⏰ 18:00 (arrival 17:30) 📍 Collective Architecture, Glasgow 💻 Hybrid — stream opens 17:50
- Reposted by John SuttonNo Future: Punk in the UK, 1976–84 Professor Matthew Worley on British punk, popular memory and structures of feeling — from SEX to the 1980s and beyond. Tue 17 Feb · 18:00(UK) Collective Architecture, Glasgow Hybrid event 👉 Register now forms.gle/fHHborG35KCZ...
- Reposted by John SuttonWhat can waste tell us about how we live now? Dr Leila Papoli-Yazdi examines garbology as an archaeological method under political constraint and limited funding. Thu 12 Feb | 16:00–17:30 (UK) | Online Register: forms.gle/WD5pM6w3xg3S...
- Reposted by John SuttonThu 29 Jan | 15:15–17:00 (UK) No Figure in the Landscape: Remorse, closure and the law Hybrid seminar with Associate Professor Kate Rossmanith (University of Stirling). 👉 Register now: forms.gle/sypMhxqbW9T8...
- Reposted by John SuttonThrilled to share our new paper introducing “validity potential” versus “realised validity” as a key distinction for psychological measurement, with @davidmkaplanx.bsky.social, Alexander Gillett, @suttonprofessor.bsky.social, and @robert-m-ross.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by John SuttonMany thanks to Professor Michael Given for opening the Centre’s 2026 seminar programme, exploring place-making as a convivial, lived process shaped by people, animals, soils and everyday practices. Thanks also to Research Fellow Paul Max Morin, who coordinates our events.
- Reposted by John SuttonWe’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-...
- Reposted by John SuttonThe 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
- Reposted by John SuttonThu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05 Register bit.ly/4aTdI2Q
- Reposted by John SuttonA 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
- 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.
- with @aldersonday.bsky.social @nboyce.bsky.social @esolomonova.bsky.social @jarnotuominen.bsky.social and many more great folk, across English, medical humanities, psychiatry, psychology, religious studies, bioscience, and neurophilosophy, along with my home at @memoryplace.bsky.social
- Reposted by John SuttonWhat 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
- Reposted by John SuttonOur researcher Paul Morin was live this morningon France Culture to talk about a memory law Algeria just passed on colonisation. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
- Reposted by John Sutton"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...
- Reposted by John SuttonFrom 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...
- Reposted by John SuttonIs 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...
- Reposted by John SuttonAffective 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.
- Reposted by John SuttonResearch 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.
- Reposted by John SuttonResearch 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!
- 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
- Reposted by John SuttonNew preprint alert! 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
- 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...
- 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
- '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...
- and Carby has a new book out in a few weeks 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...
- Reposted by John SuttonNicholas 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...
- Reposted by John SuttonOur 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
- @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!
- Reposted by John SuttonProfessor Emily Keightley — Migrant Heritage and Postcolonial Imagination 📅 29 Oct 2025 • 4 pm (BST) Join us in person or online 🔗 Register now tinyurl.com/EmilyKeightley
- Reposted by John SuttonLast night in Marseille, Centre researcher Paul Max Morin helped launch Le Coffre-Fort de l’Empire — an information plaque inside UNIQLO revealing the building’s colonial past as a former bank funding the conquest of Algeria. #ColonialLegacies #PlaceAndMemory
- Reposted by John SuttonLeverhulme International Professor Emma Waterton examines the small, often overlooked material traces of belonging itself. Join us 21 Oct, 16:00–17:30 for an afternoon seminar followed by drinks in Crush Hall. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by John SuttonHow we teach the past shapes the future. Centre researcher Paul Max Morin’s article on Algerian independence and historical memory has been chosen for France’s national history-teacher training curriculum — 125,000 copies across 3,700 high schools. #ResearchImpact link.camscanner.com/a4OMrL5Mgo
- Reposted by John SuttonMeet our people @tmcasimiro.bsky.social is an archaeologist specialising in material culture, urban marginality, and the intersections of place and memory, community archaeology, waste and urban ecologies, the archaeology of abandonment, and non-human interactions in urban and non-urban spaces.
- Welcome to Rob Wilson... please join us!
- Tomorrow: Norming Human Individuality with Professor Rob Wilson (16:00–17:30 BST, D1 Pathfoot & online). Register now → forms.gle/kfZ5W4SZr5L7... #Philosophy #CognitiveScience #PlaceMemory
- Reposted by John SuttonJoin us today for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari Wed 1 Oct 2025 16:00–17:30 (stream opens 14:50) D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling + online join online: placememory.net/events-2/#Um...
- Looking forward to hosting fellow Leverhulme International Professor, Emma Waterton! Join us...
- How does heritage-making intersect with homemaking? Join Professor Emma Waterton, Leverhulme International Professor at the University of York Tuesday 21 October 16:00–17:30 (stream opens 15:50) in Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling + online Register here: forms.gle/Guv9U9vJTvV7...
- Set in the post-war, post-Independence moment, this talk blends memoir and historical geography - join us!
- Join us for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari. Wednesday 1 October 2025 16:00–17:30 BST Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online) All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...
- Reposted by John SuttonFantastic resource - podcast about dementia-related memory loss - from Professor Catherine Loveday - how to have tricky conversations, how to improve sleep and how to scaffold memory mempathy.podbean.com
- Reposted by John SuttonJoin us for Day 2 of Amnesia and Identity with Carl Craver - starts 09:30 BST stir.ac.uk (Scion House + online) Speakers: Gema Martin-Ordas, Clare Rathbone, Louis Renoult, Catherine Loveday and Shayna Rosenbaum placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
- Join us - hybrid event - 135 registrants - 10 speakers over two days
- Day 1 of Amnesia and Identity workshop is tomorrow (24 Sept) at @stir.ac.uk (Pathfoot C22 + online). Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons. ⏰ 14:00–18:00 (UK) 🔗 Full schedule + online link: placememory.net/events-2/#am...
- Reposted by John Sutton👉 Register: forms.gle/kPVR35xfKB22... Norming Human Individuality – the significance of eugenification - with Professor Rob Wilson 📅 Wed 8 Oct 2025 | 🕒 16:00–17:30 UK 📍 University of Stirling (Room D1) + online Hybrid talk on how eugenification shapes human individuality.
- Reposted by John SuttonThe full schedule is now online for Amnesia and Identity with Carl Craver (24–25 Sept, University of Stirling + online). Sessions feature Shayna Rosenbaum, Michael Kopelman, Clare Rathbone, Rachael Elward, Catherine Loveday and more. 🔗 placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
- Reposted by John SuttonToday 15:00–16:30 (UK). Stream opens 14:50 Professor Hugo Spiers–Studying Navigation in Cities & on the Ocean. Join online placememory.net/events-2/#Hugo
- Reposted by John SuttonCall for papers: Centre researcher Pablo Fernández Velasco is co-editing. Original research, case studies, and perspectives welcome. Examples: ecological grief, climate anxiety, solastalgia, displacement trauma. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
- Great work Sara Kim Hjortborg and @gregdowney.bsky.social!! Our new paper in Journal of Sports Sciences homes in on micromoments of skillful coaching interactions during and between rounds in a novice Muay Thai bout - thread below!
- 'Coach–athlete interaction in Muay Thai: A microethnographic analysis of skill learning in a real-world combat sport' - open access in Journal of Sports Sciences: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Thread by lead author Sara Kim Hjortborg: recent studies raise concerns about individualistic or exclusively laboratory-based approaches🧑🔬 to skill research. But field-based methods that are able to hold greater levels of complexity🧮have not been thoroughly introduced nor accepted into sports science
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View full threadWe'd love to hear how others are studying coaching in real-world settings. What methods are you using? What moments have surprised you? Let's talk skill learning in the wild👇 #MuayThai #SkillLearning #EcologicalDynamics #Coaching #Microethnography #CombatSport
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- Amnesia and Identity workshop at @memoryplace.bsky.social, Stirling Uni, Scotland Sept 24-25. Themes from forthcoming Oxford UP book Living without Memory: amnesia and the lives of persons, by Carl Craver and R. Shayna Rosenbaum. Register here to attend in person or online forms.gle/B2mLpgjJhNUR...
- 'Everyday Aesthetics in Place and Memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance': @memoryplace.bsky.social talk at 4pm Weds Sept 10, Professor Tracy Ireland (Univ of Canberra), register here to attend in person at Stirling or online: forms.gle/6HuBWRecb3ri...
- Yes to Orpheus and Eurydice glorious movement, aching power, vast sound, yay for Patrick Nolan and Opera Queensland/ Circa!!! www.eif.co.uk/events/orphe...
- Reposted by John SuttonJoin us to explore themes in the forthcoming OUP book Living without Memory: Amnesia and the Lives of Persons by Carl Craver and R. Shayna Rosenbaum. Full details, including in-person and online registration links, will be shared soon. #Amnesia #Identity #MemoryStudies #PlaceAndMemory
- Reposted by John SuttonFrom the Topographies of Violence conference in Mostar to the Youth and Heritage summer school in Stolac, Bosnia, the Centre researchers Safet HadžiMuhamedović and Sofya Shahab explored what it means to protect, rebuild, and reimagine heritage after violence.
- Reposted by John SuttonJoin us at the University of Stirling to explore the memory, material traces, and places of everyday life — from the official to the overlooked — with archaeologist and heritage practitioner Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social
- just submitted another journal paper review, my 235th (excluding editorial comments): but, pause, it's the 100th distinct journal I've reviewed for, whew, ton up, wipe the sweat, settle in for the next century, and ask @neillevy.bsky.social how way far ahead towards the double hundred are you?
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- Traditional indigenous Marshall Islands navigators join cognitive neuroscientists in cutting-edge research on the vast Pacific Ocean: our @memoryplace.bsky.social colleague @pfvelasco.bsky.social studying dynamic intelligence in action www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
- Tomorrow! two-hour online workshop on distributed creativity and cognition in film-making with my fab friend and collaborator Karen Pearlman (www.karenpearlman.net), 11am-1pm Thursday UK time, highly recommended physicaltv.com.au/distributed-...
- Final reminder: @memoryplace.bsky.social workshop Cognitive Aesthetics of Place, Monday 9 June, 3-5.45 Edinburgh, in-person and remote - keynote Karin Kukkonen on beach reading; Marco Bernini on places permeated by fictions; Mike Wheeler on street art and authenticity: mailchi.mp/stir/cogniti...
- Fiona Macpherson and Neil McDonnell in full flight today at the extraordinary 20th anniversary gig of Glasgow's Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience: rich mix of philosophy, cog science, the senses, illusions, XR, and great folk, what a history, what achievements, onwards!
- Reposted by John SuttonAssociate Professor Celia Harris presents Memory Scaffolding: from theory to practice tomorrow - join in person or online - Celia discusses how social & material environments support memory as we age, drawing on both lab-based and field-based research.
- Two June workshops (one online, one in-person in Glasgow) on place and memory methodologies: #1 on disorientations and absences, #2 on materiality and embodiment, with our researchers from placememory.net
- Cognitive Aesthetics of Place: workshop Monday 9 June, 3-5.30 UK time, co-hosted with Edinburgh, in-person or remote: keynote from Karin Kukkonen on beach reading; Marco Bernini on places permeated by fictions; Mike Wheeler on street art and authenticity: mailchi.mp/stir/cogniti...
- Reposted by John SuttonQuick reminder Donna Addis's talk The past and future of the imaginative brain is online/in person 🗓️ Thursday 15 May 🕒 3:00–4:30pm (BST) 📍 Psychology Common Room (C3A94), Cottrell Building, University of Stirling or 💻 Online MS Teams: tinyurl.com/DonnaRoseAddis
- 'Archives in Place' is a terrific 9-minute film on profusion and transformation in heritage from my Stirling colleague Jennie Morgan @drmorgan.bsky.social & Nadia Bartolini: I found it in prep for last week's great Glasgow workshop 'Storage and Retrieval: the brain & the archive' vimeo.com/223623288
- with accompanying research paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....?
- after reading on visible storage, keeping artifacts in movement, seeking connections from museum and archive practice to constructive remembering and dynamic traces in philosophy, psychology, cog neuroscience, it was amazing to work with real objects in @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social collections
- Reposted by John SuttonJoin us online or in person for two talks exploring ‘curated decay’ and the ‘modern ruin’. tinyurl.com/modernruins Tuesday 10 June, 4:00 - 5:30pm, all welcome - with Dr Pablo Arboleda and Centre Research Fellow Dr Ruth Olden
- Reposted by John SuttonCatch Centre Director John Sutton tomorrow at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow www.eventbrite.com/e/memory-sto...
- Reposted by John SuttonCentre Research Fellow Pablo Fernandez Velasco is co-running a creative ecological grief workshop with artist Anya Gleizer and Teyah Payne in London, Fri 10 May www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tamesis-un... output will be added to a monumental piece of communally textile art: the Tamesis Robe...
- Two great memory summer talks at @SciPlaceMemory - imaginative brains, constructive episodic simulation, memory scaffolding, aged care environments. May 15 & June 5 - register for in-person or online participation at placememory.net/events-2/
- Two excellent days done at 'Intersubjectivity and Collective Memory' at Copenhagen's Centre for Subjectivity Research, with Marta Caravà, Francesca Righetti, Axel Seemann and more terrific philosophers cfs.ku.dk/calendar-mai...
- Reposted by John SuttonIs France still a colonial country? Centre Research Fellow Dr Paul Max Morin addresses the question in this weeks le1hebdo... le1hebdo.fr/journal/la-f...
