Teachers and education systems: current and future impacts of COVID-19
Professor Andy Hargreaves explains what education systems and leaders can do to adapt to current circumstances; and considers the big changes may result from COVID-19 crisis.
Exploring local responses to COVID-19: Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland
Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland (CNS) has started a research project in partnership with Policy Scotland and local authorities to document responses to, and the impact of, COVID-19 on children and families.
COVID-19: How Glasgow University and Policy Scotland can contribute to the response
The Policy Scotland project to bring together Glasgow University staff and civic partners to help policymakers respond to the challenges resulting from coronavirus (COVID-19).
Coping with COVID-19
Policy Scotland’s role in shaping the debate about how our future is reframed and redesigned as a result of COVID-19.
Housing and Infrastructure
The COVID crisis has created urgent needs for fast policy insights, such as rethinking urgent care for the homeless, the prevention of evictions and rent gouging and minimising the effects of reduced incomes on maintaining mortgage payments and home-ownership. Image credit: Tim Dennell on Flickr | CC BY 2.0 / In the recovery phase,…
Education, Children and Families
COVID-19 is having an unprecedented impact on society. This impact is particularly stark for children, families and frontline workers, particularly those living and working in areas of significant disadvantage. As a response to the urgent needs of children and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic, public services and organisations have had to adapt rapidly; putting…
City economies
Image credit: Felibrilu on Flickr | CC BY-NC 2.0 There is already a great deal of material available on how the public health crisis is shaping an economic crisis. What is already a deep business recession might elongate into a depression and broaden into financial crises for governments and the wider economy. The world of work…
Community Resilience and Addressing Disadvantage
Image credit: Felibrilu on Flickr | CC BY-NC 2.0 The immediate public health crisis of COVID-19 and the policy responses put in place to combat its spread has altered the individual and collective lives of communities across the globe. As with most crises, however, the negative health, social and economic impacts disproportionately affect those already experiencing poverty…
This time it’s different
Article by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal of University of Glasgow, on the required economic measures and approaches to avoid a re-run of the austerity which followed the financial crisis of 2008.
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.