UBDC and COP26 – using our data and expertise to tackle the climate crisis
How the Urban Big Data Centre is working to discover climate action solutions and helping others to access the data and skills they need to do the same.
Amplifying Children’s Voices
In the build-up to COP26, Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland (CNS) at the University of Glasgow is using the capabilities approach to facilitate workshops between schools in West Dunbartonshire and in Luis Cruz Martinez, Chile.
Future of market regulation after COVID-19 – workshop
A workshop examining the future of regulation post-COVID, part of an initiative to deepen links between policy regulators and the academic community across Scotland
An Interview with Samantha Suter: Combining Citizen Science and Remote Sensing Approaches for Habitat Monitoring
We interview Samantha Suter on the importance of understanding how climate change affects biodiversity.
Media focus on the Children’s Voices climate project
A Scotland-Chile to amplify children’s voices in the climate change discussion is getting attention
International Relations event week ‘Confronting climate change: toward COP26’
Hosted by Politics & International Relations, this series of recorded events offered fascinating insights into current challenges in global climate policy.
Three ways blockchain could get the world to act against the climate crisis
By facilitating a novel decentralized climate organization, blockchain technology holds promise to foster global cooperation to tackle climate change.
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Microplastics publishes first report
About Glasgow University research input to first report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Microplastics, focused on the control of microplastic fibres.
Additional powers: Better understanding? Better scrutiny? A new report on Scotland’s new budget powers
A joint working paper with the Scottish Parliament’s Information Centre and the University of Strathclyde looking at levels of understanding of Scotland’s new budget powers.
The COVID-19 Crisis and Universal Credit in Glasgow: September 2021
The fourth and final working paper in the series on Universal Credit in Glasgow and Scotland this paper reports on trends over the COVID period and considers the implications for policy and practice.