The talks from ‘Shaping Futures: Housing Policies for the 21st Century’ seminar on 8 December 2015 with Duncan MacLennan and Michael Lennon are now available to view online. You can […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
In early November, Glasgow University PhD students Mary Anne MacLeod (Urban Studies) and former Policy Scotland intern, Sarah Hamlin (Scottish Literature) spent time volunteering in refugee camps in Lesbos and […]
Five things you find out in a European refugee camp
For the last few months Policy Scotland has been involved in the evidencing process associated with the Commission on Local Tax reform. We have also contributed to the Scottish Property […]
Commission on Local Tax reform
Human Rights Act Consultation Kurt Mills Convenor, Glasgow Human Rights Network The government in Westminster announced in May 2015 that it intended to replace the Human Rights Act with […]
Human Rights Act Consultation
In advance of the Policy Scotland Welfare Reform Network’s event ‘Supporting Migrants in Welfare Reform’, Dr Holly Porteous writes on ways to address challenges facing migrants from Central & Eastern Europe […]
Challenges faced by Central & East European migrants: welfare and ...
Wednesday 11 November, 14:00 – 16:30 Glasgow Centre for Population Health offices, Olympia Building (third floor), Bridgeton Cross Eventbrite registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting-migrants-in-welfare-reform-tickets-19167438324 This workshop seeks to explore the impacts of welfare […]
Event: Supporting Migrants in Welfare Reform
The Human Rights Q&A: Political artist Carla Novi “I wanted to tell the story of the protesters in Mexico City, whose lives have been transformed in the past year […]
The Human Rights Q&A: Political artist Carla Novi
A lecture given by Professor J D Gallagher, Policy Scotland, Glasgow University on 21 October 2015 In this lecture I want to do three things. Take stock, just over a year after the […]
Through a glass, darkly : Glimpsing Scotland’s constitutional future
Syria and the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis: A Failure of International Responsibilities Kurt Mills University of Glasgow The crisis of humanity we see in the Mediterranean and Europe is part of […]