The COVID-19 pandemic and the economy: We are fighting a new war
Central banks and regulatory authorities have responded to the economic threat from the need to contain the COVID-19 pandemic but there is a need for more action.
A view from Glasgow: Maureen McKenna on school closures and the pandemic
An email interview with Maureen McKenna, Executive Director of Education, Glasgow City Council, posted on the International Education News website.
Experts and politics in Scotland and the UK
Expert advice has been prominent in the COVID-19 crisis but understanding the relationship between experts and policymaking will be of particular importance as we move to the next stage.
University finance reforms must be planned carefully
Comment by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice Chancellor University of Glasgow, on what the Augar Review of higher education funding could mean for Scotland in a post-Brexit landscape.
IndyRef Twitter Analysis: Most talked about policy areas
In the latest post in our series examining Twitter and the independence referendum debate, we turn from analysing who is participating to exploring what is being discussed. Our first trawl of the text of tweets using #indyref hashtag in the period January 2014 – April 2014 identifies those issues most frequently discussed. The findings for…
IndyRef Twitter Analysis: New & traditional media
Today we provide another snapshot of one week’s coverage (20-26th January 2014 – c.27,000 connections[1]) of the debate about the Scottish Independence Referendum on the social media platform, Twitter. The patterns are broadly similar to those we reported in January (based on one week’s traffic in December 2013). Typically those in support of a yes…
Twitter and the independence referendum
In the first of a series of visualisation snapshots, using data from twitter, we constructed a network graph showing the connections between users and hashtags for tweets about the independence referendum. This snapshot covers one week (13th-19th December) including c.13,000 connections[1]. One observation based on the data is that the Yes campaign has a wider…
Defence of the new realm
By Dr Phillips O’Brien, Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies at the University of Glasgow. Defence is one of the most contentious issues in the independence debate, with the fate of the naval bases at Faslane and Coulport – and the future of the British nuclear weapons sited there – dominating discussion so…
Key education policy announcements made during lecture at Glasgow University
Professor Chris Chapman asks whether school partnerships are promising for equitable change and improvement in education.
Indicating housing
Professor Ken Gibb examine issues around house prices, income ratios and housing markets.