Green Recovery Dialogues
Policy Scotland and the University’s Centre for Sustainable Solutions have created a partnership with Glasgow City Council to run a series of Green Recovery Dialogues.
GCVS and the Third Sector Knowledge Exchange Collaborative: a valuable response to our challenges
Ian Bruce from the Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector, outlines the value of collaboration between third sector organisations and the University of Glasgow.
COVID-19: Urgently needed insights for public policy challenges
Policy Scotland will mobilise urgently needed insights in response to the social and economic policy challenges of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Video: Melanie van de Velde – Social Enterprise
Melanie van de Velde shares her exciting research around key challenges in the field of social enterprise. Her consultancy business Big Tree Global helps companies to create effective impact strategies for good outcomes for people and planet, as well as business benefits.
Supporting Older People into Employment (SOPIE)
Introduction to a research project identifying factors influencing return to work in the over-50s.
Introducing the Thursday Video
Policy Scotland is excited to announce its new series: the Friday Video! Check out the website every Friday for a brand new bite sized video blog exploring policy in Scotland from new and exciting perspectives. We caught up with some of our best and brightest policy researchers who gave us a quick overview of some of the…
Introducing ‘This Place Matters’
This Place Matters is a collaborative learning project for communities and local authorities developed by the University of Glasgow and Architecture + Design Scotland
‘Go Home’: Mapping the ongoing controversy of Home Office immigration campaigns
By Dr Emma Jackson, Journal Research Fellow (Urban Studies) On December 19th 2013, the Scottish Parliament debated the Home Office’s ‘Go Home’ poster campaign in the UK Border Agency’s Brand Street reporting centre. The posters at Brand Street reading ‘Is life here hard, why not go home?’ were part of a high profile Government pilot scheme launched…
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.