Research areas: International Relations, human rights, religion, society and politics, freedom of expression, human reasoning in relation to science, media studies

Skorini, Heini (2023): Kampen om ytringsfriheden: Religion, politik og global værdikamp. Gads Forlag. København. Link: https://gad.dk/kampen-om-ytringsfriheden

Skorini, Heini (2023): FN's nye kampdag mod islamofobi er endnu et angreb mod ytringsfriheden. Jyllandsposten. Kronik. Link: https://jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik/ECE15708911/fns-nye-kampdag-mod-islamofobi-er-endnu-et-angreb-mod-ytringsfriheden/

Hayfield, Erika, Albinus, Herit og í Skorini, Heini (2023): Kyn, javnstøða og javnrættindi: Hvat halda føroyingar? Frágreiðing. Fróðskaparsetur Føroya. Leinkja: https://lms.cdn.fo/media/18208/javnst%C3%B8%C3%B0a-r%C3%A6tta%C3%B02.pdf?s=acfXQNI2aUmIdZQuHYSmslV7lJg

Mchangama, Jacob, Skorini, Heini, Meier, Mathias (2022): "Hate Speech, Holy Prophets and Human Rights: The Struggle for Free Speech from 1945-2021". In Journal of Free Speech Law, vol. 1, issue 2, see: https://www.journaloffreespeechlaw.org/mchangamaskorinimeier.pdf

Skorini, Heini, Albinus, Herit (2022): "Pandemien i Nordatlanten: Hvordan covid-19 har forenet en polariseret mikronation - og hvordan velkendte konflikter stadig ulmer." Politica 2022, 54, nr. 4, pp. 364-388: https://tidsskrift.dk/politica/article/view/134833/179676

Skorini, Heini, Albinus, Herit, and Sølvará, Hans Andrias (2022): "Færøerne mellem religiøs vækkelse og sekularisering: En nordisk undtagelse bliver til". Økonomi og Politik, 2022, 1: https://www.djoef-forlag.dk/openaccess/oep/files/2022/1_2022/1_2022_8.pdf

Skorini, Heini (2022): "The Faroe Islands, Foreign Policy and Security: What Do Faroese People Think?" The University of the Faroe Islands and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, working paper, see link: https://setur.cdn.fo/media/8230/fr%C3%A1grei%C3%B0ing-um-uttanrikis-og-trygdarpolitikk.pdf?s=c5IFU0bQGQrD9ZSQ_Z0F2WCqqck

Skorini, Heini & Dyrberg, Torben (2022): "Framing Blasphemy as a Crime: The Curious Similarities between the Secular Left and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation". In Journal of Political Ideologies, Feb. 2022, pp. 1-21.

Skorini, Heini, Olavson, Rógvi (2021): “Færøerne“. In Covid 19 och de nordiska nyhetsmediarna (ed. Jonas Ohlsson, Ida Willig & Mark Blach Ørsten). Nordic Council of Ministers & Lund University, link: http://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1543808/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Højgaard, Signe-Ravn, Karlsson, Ragnar, Jóhannsdóttir, Valgerður Jóhanna, Olavson, Rógvi, Skorini, Heini (2021): “Peculiarities of Smallness: Mapping the Media Systems in the West Nordic Countries”, in Nordicom Review, vol. 42, link: https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/nor-2021-0020

Skorini, Heini (2020): “Science as a Political Battlefield: How Cultural Values Shape People’s Attitudes to Science,” in Handbook on Political Identity: Democratic Citizenship in Turbulent Times (ed. Niels Nørgaard Kristensen), IGI Global, US, link: https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/science-as-a-political-battlefield/257972

Skorini, Heini (2020): “The OIC and the United Nations: Framing Blasphemy as a Human Rights Violation”, in Blasphemies Compared: Transgressive Speech in a Globalised World (ed. Anne Stensvold), Routledge University Press, link: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429295560-11/oic-united-nations-heini-skorini

Skorini, Heini (2019): Free Speech, Religion and the United Nations: The Struggle to Define International Free Speech Norms. Routledge University Press. United Kingdom, link: https://www.routledge.com/Free-Speech-Religion-and-the-United-Nations-The-Political-Struggle-to/Skorini/p/book/9780367785017

Skorini, Heini (2019): “The OIC and Freedom of Expression: Justifying Religious Censorship Norms with Human Rights Language”, in The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Human Rights: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, ed. Marie Juul Petersen and Turan Kayaoglu, University of Pennsylvania Press, link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.9783/9780812295948-006/html

Skorini, Heini and Juul Petersen, Marie (2016): “Hate Speech and Holy Prophets: Tracing the OIC’s Strategies to Protect Religion at the UN”, in Religion, State and the United Nations (ed. Anne Stensvold), Routledge University Press, link: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315675572-9/hate-speech-holy-prophets-tracing-oic-strategies-protect-religion-un-heini-skorini-marie-juul-petersen

Petersen, Marie Juul, and Skorini, Heini (2017): “Freedom of Expression vs. Defamation of Religions: Protecting Individuals or Protecting Religions?”, in Religion and the Public Sphere, London School of Economics and Politics, LSE Research Online, link: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/76423/

Skorini, Heini (2017): Human Rights Language as a Double-Edged Sword: Examining the Clash on Freedom of Expression and Defamation of Religions in the UN System, King’s College Research Portal, Ph.D. thesis, Department of War Studies, King’s College London, link: https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.733344

Teaching experience includes:

International Relations, Politics in small states and islands, Human rights, Religion and politics, Methodology, Theories of Social Science, Media and Freedom of Expression.