New Fund: MRC Public Health Intervention Development Scheme
About the Public Health Intervention Development scheme (PHIND)
Enabling Health and Wellbeing in Later Life
A report from the Institute of Health and Wellbeing called Enabling Health and Wellbeing in Later Life, a system that links older people to local community resources through their general practices.
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…
Policy Scotland launched Monday 24 June 2013
The launch of Policy Scotland with inaugural seminar, was attended by 80 people and hosted by the Principal of the University of Glasgow, Professor Anton Muscatelli.
Are some powers more equal than others?
Introduction to a research project by Professor Stephen White focusing on the relationship between social inequality and political stability in China and Russia.
Healthcare in China: getting better?
Professor Jane Duckett introduces a project to explore the relationship between Chinese people’s attitudes to the healthcare system and how they use it.
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.
I’m a migrant, get over it
Linda Ekblom Jacobsson writes about the Migrant Manifesto
Punishment, rehabilitation and progress
A talk from Professor Fergus McNeill about how imprisonment breaks down social ties and cohesion, destroying the reciprocities that justice should serve to restore.
Neighbourhood crime rates and alcohol in Glasgow
Findings from research looking at the impact of the presence and number of alcohol outlets in neighbourhoods as an influence on the crime rate.