By Lucy Robinson in Community News — 03 Oct 2025

SPIN - Secrecy, Power, and Ignorance research Network

Find out more about SPIN - Secrecy, Power, and Ignorance research Network - in this feature.

SPIN is a collaborative initiative between researchers based at the University of Bath, University of Bristol, Cardiff University, and the University of Exeter with members of the network across the UK, the Netherlands, France, the US and Canada. SPIN research focuses on the power and politics of secrecy and ignorance – at the global, international, state, societal and personal level.

Recent announcements and updates:

Secrecy and Society invites submissions for the next special issue: ‘Subjugated Knowledges’, Volume 4, Issue 1. To see the Call for Papers and for further details, visit SPIN’s blog.
The recording for the SPIN Research Methods Masterclass session on FOI/A held in is now available on YouTube.
The recording the talk by Shereen Fernandez (LSE), ‘Secrecy and Redaction’, is now available on YouTube.
They are now planning events and talks for TB2. If you have a talk you would like to give or a paper you would like to discuss, please email e.vanveeren@bris.ac.uk
New article by SPINster Owen Thomas forthcoming in Security Dialogue. ‘Revealing (in)security: Scandals, guilty secrets, and the promise of counter-forensics’, Contact the author for pre-print version.
New contribution to the SPIN A-Z series is now live, ‘F is for Five Eyes’ by Lydia Morgan (Birmingham).
Their latest student essay is also available, ‘The Age of Innocence and Ignorance: Exploring the ‘silencing of the past’ in US foreign policy’.