Introducing Moral Victories, a new collaboration with Policy Scotland

“What constitutes victory?  I think that is a fundamental question, and it is good for each of us in this country to ask ourselves that from time to time.  When we try to decide whether or not we’ve been victorious, we have to think, for just a second, what the term ‘victory’ means.” General Tommy…

Welfare Reform Network Launch Event

Sanctions in Scotland: Evidence, policy in practice and impacts Thursday 19th February 2015  This event explores the practice of benefit sanctioning in Scotland.  Benefit sanctions have risen dramatically in recent years and there is a great deal of concern over how sanctions are used and how they affect people subject to them.  This event presents…

EVENT: The family, sexuality and human rights in global perspective, 23rd January

In a joint event hosted by the University of Glasgow Human Rights Network and the Gender and Sexualities Forum, three speakers from the School of Social and Political Sciences will launch three books in a discussion chaired by Dr Vikki Turbine (Politics). Date: 23rd January 2014 Dr. Roona Simpson (Sociology) will launch: ‘L. Jamieson and…