Health
Today’s Policy Scotland Thursday Video introduces some new research from Masters’ student Monika Buganska on the potential mental and physical health benefits of utilizing outdoor environments, with an emphasis on […]
Thursday Video: Monika Buganska on outdoor environments in prisons
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 […]
Recruitment crisis at the NHS frontline?
This week’s Policy Scotland Friday Video features Breannon Babbel, Urban Studies researcher at the University of Glasgow. Breannon talks to us about her research and fieldwork with General Practitioners in […]
Thursday Video: Breannon Babbel – The role of GPs in ...
In the first of our Friday Video series, we talk to Urban Studies postgraduate researcher, Kainde Manji, about her work on welfare reforms and people living with disabilities in Scotland.
Thursday Video: Kainde Manji discusses welfare and disabilities in Scotland
A speech by the chairman of Glasgow-based food bank, Loaves and Fishes, to the Scottish Parliament’s Welfare Reform Committee has been circulating on social media recently. The powerful speech by […]
Charity: increased food bank use linked to welfare cuts
Nick Bailey University of Glasgow The recent media coverage of poverty has focussed on growing problems of severe hardship and destitution. The cuts in welfare benefits have been made worse […]
Scotland’s improving poverty rate – worth one cheer?
An initiative that helps male football fans feel better and live a healthier lifestyle by losing weight, taking more exercise, and improving their diet has been a resounding success, according […]
Football fans get FFITer and lose weight
The EuroFIT project started on 1 November with the launch of its website and a good kickoff meeting in Glasgow. The goal of EuroFIT is to harness the ‘love of […]