Colourings without monochromatic disjoint pairs

In this paper we present a unified approach to the Erdős-Rothschild problem for intersecting structures, which allows us to extend the previous results, often with sharp bounds on the size of the ground set in terms of the other parameters. In many cases we also characterise which families of vector spaces asymptotically maximise the number of Erdős-Rothschild colourings, thus addressing a conjecture of Hoppen, Lefmann and Odermann.