Raise aspirations to break poverty traps
How the experience of poverty impacts on the beliefs and aspirations of the poor, and an ongoing project in Kolkata which is working to raise the aspirations of sex workers.
How the experience of poverty impacts on the beliefs and aspirations of the poor, and an ongoing project in Kolkata which is working to raise the aspirations of sex workers.
In a joint event hosted by the University of Glasgow Human Rights Network and the Gender and Sexualities Forum, three speakers from the School of Social and Political Sciences will launch three books in a discussion chaired by Dr Vikki Turbine (Politics). Date: 23rd January 2014 Dr. Roona Simpson (Sociology) will launch: ‘L. Jamieson and…
A new research project by the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network focuses on ‘Experiences of Social Security and Prospects for Long Term Settlement amongst Migrants from Central Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union’.
Dr Matthew Waites talks about his new book, ‘Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change’.
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.
Linda Ekblom Jacobsson writes about the Migrant Manifesto
Introduction to a research project into appearance-based discrimination intended to start a national debate on lookism in Scotland and the UK.