Russia’s war on Ukraine: webinar
Recording of a webinar with an expert panel discussing key questions surrounding the war and its implications for Ukraine and Russia, and for wider European and global peace.
Niddrie Road: A blueprint for energy-efficient traditional tenements?
This major collaborative project by the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence is evaluating the carbon reduction secured by a high-quality EnerPHit retrofit of an eight-property tenement block in Glasgow.
COP26 LEGACY – WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM CUBA AND SCOTLAND?
Dr Ewan Gibbs reflects on his November 3rd event ‘What Can We Learn From Cuba and Scotland’
An Interview With Dr Mark Wong: SMART Climate Action
Dr Mark Wong discusses the research that went into his event on SMART Climate Action
An Interview with Dr Allan Gillies: Biodiversity Protection is Interwoven with Socio-Environmental Justice
An Interview with Dr Allan Gillies on how environmentalism and social justice are interwoven with each other.
Attainment and disadvantage in Scotland’s schools: what may the impact of lockdown be? Research and Policy Briefing
Poorer students the most impacted by the shift to online learning in lockdown. This research briefing discusses the issues in more detail.
Urban Land Reform in Scotland
New Briefing Paper: response to Scottish Government Report to Sounding Board In May 2014, the Land Reform Review Group submitted its final report to the Scottish Government. The First Minister announced in November 2014 that the Government would consequently bring forward a Land Reform Bill, which was published in June 2015 and is currently under…
Podcast: Kainde Manji
In this Policy Scotland podcast, we talk to Urban Studies postgraduate researcher, Kainde Manji, about her work on welfare reforms and people living with disabilities in Scotland. This podcast is an extended version of the Thursday Video available on our video page.
Housing and Wellbeing – blueprints and more
Official presentation of the Commission on Housing and Wellbeing: A Blueprint for Scotland’s Future.
Recruitment crisis at the NHS frontline? Why we should be concerned for deprived areas.
By Breannon Babbel Findings from a recent British Medical Association (BMA) poll [1] have alarm bells ringing for general practice as a whole in the UK, and particularly for general practice in deprived areas. While the poll of 15,560 GPs doesn’t warn of a mass exodus out of general practice, it does indicate that over…